Outdoor Hour Challenge. IX.

With the completion of our last Outdoor Hour Challenge we have found ourselves caught up the weekly challenges presented on the Outdoor Hour Challenge website.

This week we are looking at pansies.

Because I actually read ahead and prepared for our Tuesday Nature Study I was able to be proactive and pick up a few potted pansies at Lowe’s on the way home from Riley’s soccer game Monday.

(That’s the primary reason I love following along with the Outdoor Hour Challenge.  It’s enables me to take a book I have had sitting on my shelf for all my years of homeschooling – a book I have been idealistic about but never actually used to its full potential – and to use it regularly and to use it well.)

We tried our hands at watercolor pencils today, first drawing the pansies in our nature notebooks and then adding water with a a brush right on top of the drawing.

I think we’ll experiment again later this week because the pansies were simple to draw and their bright color was great to play with.

After we talked about the way pansies resemble little faces, the kids and I toted our plants off the table and stuck them in the ground.

I like this part – Nature Study providing colorful variety to our yard.

Although I still battle with schedule more than I should, it feels so satisfying to keep to the routine and to complete a Nature Study every Tuesday.

And thanks to this week, we can see our hard work every day in all its purple pansy glory.