Keen observation of the world around us can be educational as well as enjoyable. Suggested supplies for nature journaling include:

Beginning Students

• Journals, sketchbooks, watercolor pads, and 110 lb. card stock fastened to a clipboard (store the finished drawing in a binder with plastic sleeves)

• Dixon® Ticonderoga® pencil (ten pack)

• Staedtler® All-Purpose White Vinyl Eraser

• Crayola® Watercolors for ages 2–6

• Prang© Watercolors—12 count (OfficeMax®) for ages 7–10

• Good Quality Paintbrushes available in packs (necessary for controlling paint)

••With the exception of Prang© Watercolors, most of the above supplies can be purchased at Wal-Mart®.)

Intermediate or Advanced Students

• Journals, sketchbooks, watercolor pads, charcoal pads, and 110 lb. card stock fastened to a clipboard (store the finished drawing in a binder with plastic sleeves)

• Faber-Castell Goldfaber Sketching Pencils

• Portfolio Aqua Sketch Drawing Pencils

• Charcoal pencils—General’s Charcoal Pencil Drawing Kit No. 15

• Strathmore™ 500 Series Charcoal Paper Pads

• Staedtler® All-Purpose White Vinyl Eraser

• Faber-Castell Artist’s Pens

• Grumbacher® or Winsor & Newton™ Tube Watercolors

• Strathmore™ Watercolor Paper—cold press

• Good Quality Paintbrushes—buy individually or in packs

• Derwent Watercolor Pencils

**Most of the above supplies can be purchased at Hobby Lobby, Michaels®, or OfficeMax®. For additional savings, try purchasing these products off of eBay®.

Supplies suggested by Jill Novak. She and her husband Robert have been married for thirty years. They are the parents of five children, ages 23 to10. Together their family has produced The Gift of Family Writing, Becoming God’s Naturalist, The Sketch with Me DVD Series, Drawing is Life: Two Artists Discuss Nature Journaling, and The Girlhood Home Companion Magazine. Visit Jill’s online “Sketch with Me” nature journal and blog at www.remembrancepress.com.  You may contact Jill at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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