DIY specimen slides for nature schools

DIY specimen slides plus BONUS 10x vintage specimen posters

This Digital download DIY specimen slide pack is the perfect additionto your nature school resources. We believe strongly in entwining natural elements into children’s educations and bringing nature into the classroom.

These DIY slides are a fun and hands on way to display specimens and make the perfect slides for observations in the classroom. They make a great craft project and an even better gift for your students to take home. Or you can simply create them to add to your nature shelfs, nature morning baskets, add them to your other unit studies, bring them along to your forest school, bush kindies or anything you can think of.

We have created these slides so they are easy for you to create, and easy enough to even get your child or students to create themGet kids outside finding their own specimens to add to the slides ( leaves, dried flowers, moss, insect wings etc) OR use our specimen photos we have added to the bundle

This pack contains

-instructions and materials need pages

– 6 different slide sizes to choose from ( or use them all) –

-3 pages of specimen / insect specimen images

for you to use in your slides totalling around 42, unless you choose to use REAL SPECIMENS- leafs,dried flowers,insect wings,moss,etc

PLUS BONUS

-10x vintage specimen posters to use as display with your slides, -on your nature classroom display shelfs, these are different sizes – simply print , laminate for best results and cut out each poster to hang on your walls, add to your nature baskets or nature study units.

You only need 4 materials – you most likely already have them.

– thick A4 card stock (the thicker the better to print your slides on)

-scissors and glue

-specimens -either real specimens or our pre added ones

-laminate pouches or binder clear plastic sleeves ( we have also included 2 more alternatives on our instruction page, that you can use for your specimen slide windows)

All to be printed on A4 size paper ( thick card stock for the slides)