Lil' nature inspiration 🌳

With all the excitement of the holiday season (Sinterklaas here in the Netherlands and Christmas in France), December’s humble and quiet forest becomes a peaceful refuge for everyone: parents and children alike! This week, I’m sharing two activities you can enjoy with your children in the forest in December… The theme? Birds.

I’d love to share a lil' piece of my own story with you. Already mid-November… It’s been two months since I began a lil' experiment in nature 🌿 with my children, and I think it’s the perfect moment to pause and reflect.

🎃 A gentle Halloween, the Montessori way... 🍂 For children aged 3–6, keep wonder grounded in reality: at this age, they can’t yet tell what’s imaginary from what’s real. So skip the scary creatures, and explore real marvels instead: spiders weaving their webs and leaf skeletons. Because connection to nature sparks curiosity far more deeply than any scary tale ever could...