Welcome to this site, Evolving Beauty, a place for enjoyable learning about the wondrous Earth Community. Here, we try to feature projects for children (aged 3 to 12 approx.) that blend art with science so that learning about the world of nature can be integrated harmoniously with the marvelous human capacities for empathy, creation, movement, and understanding. Our goal is to sustain youngsters’ access to their inborn potentials of heart, hands, and head even as they are becoming better acquainted with the best science regarding life on the planet. We are striving to enhance young people’s abilities to devise ingenious, well-informed, and socially beneficial responses to the many challenges of our times.
At this location, you’ll find Activities, Games, and Art Projects designed to accompany children’s explorations of the natural world here in the forestlands of the Northeastern United States. At this point (April, 2026), we continue to upload projects to the website. Eventually, we hope that you’ll find quite an assortment here. Some will engage broad topics such as energy flow, cycles, evolution, biodiversity, systems, or competition and cooperation within and among species. Others are more closely focused around particular species, including human interactions within this realm – especially, organic farming and gardening (at home or at school), and the Native American heritage of this Lower Merrimack River Valley region. All are presented in formats that attempt to honor and encourage the prosocial, affiliative intuitions of secure young people, their zest for life, their quest for wisdom, their creative imaginations, their physical. social, emotional and executive functioning skills, and their willingness to contribute uniquely and joyfully towards the common good.
Special Announcement: The print version of my illustrated activity collection Circling the Sun, Racing the Wind is now available. It was published by Green Writers Press of Vermont in November of 2024. For more information, please follow this link: https://greenwriterspress.com/book/circling-the-sun-racing-the-wind/ The last remaining copies of the first printing can be purchased here: https://www.ipgbook.com/circling-the-sun–racing-the-wind-products-9798987070789.php
A second printing has now been completed and sent to other distributors.
Update: Here’s a new feature of this website. We’ve just posted links to two webinars that summarize visually and audibly some of the principal practices and themes that animate our approach to passing along ecological principles. Here’s are the links:
Webinar on Gardening with Games and the Arts, April 6, 2023
and
Reimagining Traditional Games for Deeper Ecological Learning Webinar
We are grateful to NH Farm to School and the Natural Start Alliance. They featured these recordings as part of their 2023 Webinar Gardening Series and the online “Rooted and Resilient” Online Conference, July 14, 2025 -July 14, 2026 respectively.