Animal Magazines
My two-year-old son just received a subscription to Wild Animal Baby, a magazine for one to four year olds published by the National Wildlife Federation. It comes ten times per year, and is packed with age-appropriate stories, games, and activity ideas, all animal related. We very much enjoy it, and recommend it to any animal-loving toddler. (That’s just about all of them, isn’t it?) NWF also publishes Your Big Backyard, a magazine for three to seven year olds. While we haven’t seen this one, I assume the quality of Wild Animal Baby continues. Finally, for teens, NWF offers Ranger Rick, which I read and loved as a child, but had forgotten about until my son got Wild Animal Baby. These also make great gift ideas–a little more unusual than the latest Elmo/Rescue Heroes/Barbie action figures.
The NWF Web site itself also has lots of activity ideas, printable coloring pages, and more for little ones.
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I bet he loves it. Kristin has a subscription to Zootles, compliments of her gramps. Often it is the bedtime story and we’ll end up reading it dozens of times.
[...] To preserve your kids’ excitement about nature even after you roll up your sleeping bags, consider subscribing to one of the NWF’s three great magazines for children ages one and up. My son’s a longtime fan. by D | posted in Kids’ Activities, Fun [...]