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Cabinet of Curiosities
Cabinet of Curiosities: Collecting and Understanding the Wonders of the Natural World | Gordon Grice
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Exactly the book for every young explorer who loves finding stuff in nature and bringing it home. Cabinet of Curiosities is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the wonders of natural history and the joys of being an amateur scientist and collector. Nature writer Gordon Grice, who started his first cabinet of curiosities at age six when he found a skunks skull, explains how scientists classify all living things through the Linnaeus system; how to tell real gold from fools gold; how to preserve butterflies, crab shells, feathers, a robins egg, spider specimens, and honeycombs; how to identify seashells; the difference between antlers and horns; how to read animal tracks. And then, what to do with your specimens, including how to build a cabinet of curiosities out of common household objects, like a desk organizer or a box for fishing tackle.
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Darklunarose
Darklunarose
Cabinet of Curiosities: Collecting and Understanding the Wonders of the Natural World | Gordon Grice
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Happy holidays from my family to yours. May your day be one that is gentle and kind.

Our days has been good so far. Considering my youngest wasn‘t able to sleep at all last night, not even for a short time.

This is her collection of games. I think we will be playing loads of games in the coming year.

AnnCrystal Happy Holidays 👏🤩🥳💝. 1d
AmyG Ooooo Bananagrams! Merry Christmas 🎄 (edited) 1d
willaful “Bananagrams“ was a favorite around here.

Sorry about her -- and your -- terrible night! (edited) 1d
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Darklunarose @willaful I‘m looking forward to it! She had the triple whammy of autism mixed with severe anxiety and a virus. Doesn‘t make for a great night. We have learned to make accomodations to make it easier over the last 20 years but this year it just mixed bad. She is asleep now so have put her lunch in the fridge. Sleeps more important. 23h
willaful I hope she wakes up feeling better.

My daughter is also autistic and anxious; it does get exhausting at times! But she's the apple of my eye. 22h
Darklunarose @willaful exhausting for sure. But amazing.we are one of those families where the kids got diagnoised, parents ticked their boxes and went well…maybe we are too..so we sort a diagnosis for us. Then my mum goes “but I do that stuff too”…yeah mum there‘s a reason for that…she is diagnoised now too. It‘s genetic on both sides! But youngest, she suffers the hardest at times, 19h
willaful @Darklunarose OMG, are you me?! Exactly the same story here! Down to my mom, though she's only self-diagnosed. At 80 she didn't feel the need to do more. 😂 19h
Darklunarose @willaful it seems to happen a lot. They didn‘t know as much back then, and when our parents were kids they just didn‘t have a clue. Mum is in her 70s here now. Self diagnosis is valid! Your mum is one of us! 17h
ncsufoxes Sending hugs & support…mom of an Autistic teen with severe anxiety, OCD, & several other diagnoses. The holidays are hard here, too many transitions & uncertainty for him. He sleeps (currently) but we seem to finally have found the medication combo that works for him (for now because we know it could change with age). We have adapted to his needs over the holidays to make it workable for our family (just immediate no extended come over). 9h
willaful @ncsufoxes Sending you a hug too. 3h
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Darklunarose
Darklunarose
Cabinet of Curiosities: Collecting and Understanding the Wonders of the Natural World | Gordon Grice
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Another morning at the hurdles at our local GP. The poor kid is so up and down with his toe after surgery. I‘d have hoped it would have healed by now but no….im getting a ton of reading done….but bid rather a kid with a healed foot.

Suet624 I hope things get better soon. 2d
Ruthiella Sorry to hear that! Hope his toe heals quickly! 2d
AnnCrystal Prayers for your little one 🙏💝. 2d
dabbe Sorry to read this. Hope his toe finally heals. ❣️ 2d
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Darklunarose
Darklunarose
Cabinet of Curiosities: Collecting and Understanding the Wonders of the Natural World | Gordon Grice
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Giving this one a go now.

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kyraleseberg
kyraleseberg
Cabinet of Curiosities: Collecting and Understanding the Wonders of the Natural World | Gordon Grice
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This was the perfect rainy day book for Haven and I to browse. She especially loved the bird section: seeing the feathers and talking about how to preserve an egg (which we'll apparently be trying soon, according to her). The butterfly section was also lovely and had directions for pinning them, as well as dragonflies.

Gezemice Gorgeous book! 7y
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