Wild Wonder Foundation

10/31/2026

We’re re-sharing our prompts from last year’s Nature Journaling Challenge because it was so popular! Now if you missed any you can have another chance! 🎨🖌️📚

Join us for for a celebration of nature and “pencil miles”!* Each day in November, create a page in your nature journal based on the daily prompt from this list. Visit our website for more info and free resources for each prompt. We can’t wait to see your work!

BONUS: Akshay Mahajan has a free recorded class, Journaling into Growth. Free registration required. Sign up at the link in bio or wildwonder.org/events and we’ll send you the replay!

Share your page by tagging us Wild Wonder Foundation and using and we’ll share with the community!

WHAT NATURE JOURNALING PROMPTS?

Join in the fun! See the full year of prompts at wildwonder.org/nj25

The Wild Wonder Foundation is dedicated to encouraging nature connection and conservation through attention, curiosity, art, science, and community. Learn more and join the global nature journaling community at the link in bio or at wildwonder.org

* “Drawing is not a gift—it is a skill. You can learn to draw. You just have to put in the pencil miles.”
-John Muir Laws
John Muir Laws

10/30/2026

It’s time to celebrate OWL-O-WEEN! 🦉Fall is in the air, everything is getting “pumpkin spicy,” and we’ve got a great way to combine and ! Learn to Draw Owls with John Muir Laws in FREE RECORDED CLASSES! Sign up at the EVENTS link in bio or visit wildwonder.org/shop

Learn “owl” about drawing these magnificent, mysterious, and majestic raptors of the night in this fun, empowering, and 2-part recorded class with award-winning artist, educator, and author John Muir Laws (aka Jack).

Jack is the author of several books, including the Laws Guide to Drawing Birds (more than 70,000 copies sold), which includes an introduction by respected author and bird artist David Allen Sibley David Sibley. In that intro, Sibley wrote: “I wish this book had been available to me when I was starting out, because it is filled with tips and tricks that took me decades to learn.”

All ages and experience levels are welcome! Free, registration required. $25 suggestion donation for this spooktacular 4 hours of learning.

Learn more and sign up at wildwonder.org/shop
Hope to see youoooooo there!

All art in this post by John Muir Laws

10/23/2026

Let’s have fun with layers in our nature journals! Join avid artist, author, and journaler Jane Maday for a fun class on nature landscapes and how to use paper layers to add fun, whimsy, and surprises to your nature journal pages. Jane will share tips on how to plan and cut the layers so they work together, and she will lead a fun tutorial of painting a simple landscape and bird with watercolor. You’ll leave the session inspired and equipped with the skills and confidence to use layering to add imagery, whimsy, humor, and personality to your nature journal. All ages and levels welcome!

WHEN: Live Online, Saturday, Nov 14, 2026, 9-11am Pacific time

REGISTRATION DETAILS: FREE and registration required. Suggested donation: $25. Visit the EVENTS link in bio or wildwonder.org/events to sign up today!

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR: Jane Maday began her career at 14 years of age, as a scientific illustrator for the University of Florida. After earning a Bachelor’s degree from the Ringling College of Art and Design, she was recruited by Hallmark Cards, Inc, as a greeting card illustrator. She is an avid sketchbook and journal artist, and is the author of numerous art instruction books, including How to Journal Like an Artist: A Beginner’s Guide to Keeping a Sketch Journal, Everyday Art Exercises: Daily Activities to Boost Your Creativity, Draw Baby Animals, Draw and Paint Super Cute Animals, and many other
titles. She is known for her “Journal for Joy” method, which focuses on noticing and appreciating the simple joys of the world around us. Her goal is to inspire and help people express their own creativity.

Image credits: Images by Jane Maday

10/17/2026

At each of our nature journaling adventures, we start the day with a poem!

We just posted a sneak peak of our dates and locations for 2027 at Wildwonder.org/adventures26 (*subject to change)

Sign up for our email list at wildwonder.org to get on the waitlist and be the first to know!

SAVE THE DATES*
* March 18-21, 2027: Sandhill Crane Migration Workshop in Kearney, Nebraska, with John Muir Laws and special guest Rosemary Mosco
* April 11-16, 2027: Nature Journaling Wildflower Retreat in North Carolina, with John Muir Laws and others TBD
* May 10-14, 2027: Sierra Nevada Nature Journaling and Birding Retreat near Truckee, California, with John Muir Laws and others TBD
* June 27-July 2, 2027: Nature Journaling Summer Camp in Switzerland, with John Muir Laws, Sushma Hegde, and Joris De Raedt
* July 21-25, 2027: Nature Journaling Educator Conference, San Francisco, CA, with John Muir Laws, Roseann Hanson, Kate Rutter, and others TBD

(Note: Dates, locations, and teachers are subject to change.)

10/13/2026

Let’s have fun with layers in our nature journals! Join avid artist, author, and journaler Jane Maday for a fun class on nature landscapes and how to use paper layers to add fun, whimsy, and surprises to your nature journal pages. Jane will share tips on how to plan and cut the layers so they work together, and she will lead a fun tutorial of painting a simple landscape and bird with watercolor. You’ll leave the session inspired and equipped with the skills and confidence to use layering to add imagery, whimsy, humor, and personality to your nature journal. All ages and levels welcome!

WHEN: Saturday, Nov 14, 2026, 9-11am Pacific time

REGISTRATION DETAILS: FREE and registration required. Suggested donation: $25. Visit the EVENTS link in bio or wildwonder.org/events to sign up today!

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR: Jane Maday began her career at 14 years of age, as a scientific illustrator for the University of Florida. After earning a Bachelor’s degree from the Ringling College of Art and Design, she was recruited by Hallmark Cards, Inc, as a greeting card illustrator. She is an avid sketchbook and journal artist, and is the author of numerous art instruction books, including How to Journal Like an Artist: A Beginner’s Guide to Keeping a Sketch Journal, Everyday Art Exercises: Daily Activities to Boost Your Creativity, Draw Baby Animals, Draw and Paint Super Cute Animals, and many other
titles. She is known for her “Journal for Joy” method, which focuses on noticing and appreciating the simple joys of the world around us. Her goal is to inspire and help people express their own creativity.

Image credits: Images by Jane Maday

10/09/2026

Let’s have fun with layers in our nature journals! Join avid artist, author, and journaler Jane Maday for a fun class on nature landscapes and how to use paper layers to add fun, whimsy, and surprises to your nature journal pages. Jane will share tips on how to plan and cut the layers so they work together, and she will lead a fun tutorial of painting a simple landscape and bird with watercolor. You’ll leave the
session inspired and equipped with the skills and confidence to use layering to add imagery, whimsy, humor, and personality to your nature journal. All ages and levels welcome!

WHEN: Saturday, Nov 14, 2026, 9-11am Pacific time

REGISTRATION DETAILS: FREE and registration required. Suggested donation: $25. Visit the EVENTS link in bio or wildwonder.org/events to sign up today!

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR: Jane Maday began her career at 14 years of age, as a scientific illustrator for the University of Florida. After earning a Bachelor’s degree from the Ringling College of Art and Design, she was recruited by Hallmark Cards, Inc, as a greeting card illustrator. She is an avid sketchbook and journal artist, and is the author of numerous art instruction books, including How to Journal Like an Artist: A Beginner’s Guide to Keeping a Sketch Journal, Everyday Art Exercises: Daily Activities to Boost Your Creativity, Draw Baby Animals, Draw and Paint Super Cute Animals, and many other
titles. She is known for her “Journal for Joy” method, which focuses on noticing and appreciating the simple joys of the world around us. Her goal is to inspire and help people express their own creativity.

Image credits: Images by Jane Maday

10/01/2026

We’re re-sharing our prompts from last year’s Nature Journaling Challenge because it was so popular! Now if you missed any you can have another chance! 🎨🖌️📚

Join us for for a celebration of nature and “pencil miles”!* Each day in October, create a page in your nature journal based on the daily prompt from this list. Visit our website for more info and free resources for each prompt. We can’t wait to see your work!

BONUS: Robin Lee Carlson has a free recorded class, The Language of Shadows. Free registration required. Sign up at the link in bio or wildwonder.org/events and we’ll send you the replay!

Share your page by tagging us Wild Wonder Foundation and using and we’ll share with the community!

WHAT NATURE JOURNALING PROMPTS?

Join in the fun! See the full year of prompts at wildwonder.org/nj25

The Wild Wonder Foundation is dedicated to encouraging nature connection and conservation through attention, curiosity, art, science, and community. Learn more and join the global nature journaling community at the link in bio or at wildwonder.org

* “Drawing is not a gift—it is a skill. You can learn to draw. You just have to put in the pencil miles.”
-John Muir Laws
John Muir Laws

09/24/2026

The party continues! Video passes available now. Visit wildwonder.org/26 for details.

The annual Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference一the largest international event of its kind一gathers people who are passionate about nature, art, science, curiosity, awe, and wonder to share ideas, learn from each other, inspire each other, and have fun together.

Your Video Pass includes access (through 4/30/27) to 30 classes, panels, and talks, and you can look forward to learning from more than 30 teachers, journalers, writers, artists, authors, and thought leaders in nature, nature journaling, visual thinking, and conservation.

This VIDEO PASS—JUST $95!—gives you access to the recorded events from the 2026 conference through April 30, 2027. This pass costs less than $3.50 per class/talk.

After registration, you will receive an invitation to the conference center after October 15.

Visit wildwonder.org/26 to learn more!

09/24/2026

09/24/2026