Easy Nature Journal Prompts

Easy nature journal prompts to inspire and encourage you in your nature journaling...

A gentle invitation, not a challenge

I’m sharing one simple nature journaling prompt most weeks through the year - as an invitation, not a challenge.

These prompts are here to lean into whenever they feel helpful, especially on days when you’d like to journal but aren’t quite sure where to begin. There’s no pressure to keep up, no expectation to “do them all”, and no right or wrong way to respond.

Sometimes a prompt might spark a completely different idea for your own nature journal - and that’s wonderful. You do you.

Nature journaling is deeply personal. We all notice different things, feel drawn to different moments, and record them in our own way. If your way of nature journaling looks different from mine, that’s not only okay - it’s exactly as it should be.

Make your nature journal your own, in whatever way feels most natural and nourishing to you.

Make your nature journal your own in whatever way makes you happiest!

I’ll be sharing one prompt most weeks on social media, and adding them here over time to gradually build a growing library of gentle nature journaling prompts - a place you can return to whenever you need a little inspiration...

There's no challenge, no competition and no pressure - do the prompts in any order you find inspiring, leave out what doesn't spark for you, adapt the prompts to suit if that helps, and just enjoy journaling and have some fun with how you interpret them...

Please do come back often - new prompts will be added slowly, in rhythm with the year.

A Year of Nature Journaling

If you’ve ever wondered what nature journaling might look like over a whole year, this article offers a gentle glimpse. I share my own experience of nature journaling through the seasons with some ideas for what to journal about in each season - not as a challenge or a routine, but as a way of staying connected to nature’s quiet changes as the year unfolds.

Nature Journal Prompts Month-by-Month

January Journaling Prompts

'Stillness & Quiet'

January nature journal prompt 1: Stillness & Quiet

Record a moment of January calm - perhaps between storms, in frost or fog, in rain, or in a rare pause of silence.

Take a moment to stop. Notice what’s around you. What can you see, hear, feel?

You might choose to draw, write a few words, note the weather, or simply sit with the feeling and let it settle.

There’s no need to capture everything - just one small, quiet moment is enough.

Want to peek inside a real-life January nature journal? Take a look here...

More gentle nature journaling inspiration...

You’ll find many more ideas, tips, and quiet encouragement over in my Nature Journal Hub, here...

If you haven’t already, you might also enjoy my free PDF: Getting Started with Your First Nature Journal - that's here...

And if you feel ready for a little more structure (without pressure), my course Imperfect Nature Journaling offers 20 gentle exercises to help you explore different ways of journaling - drawing, noticing, reflecting, and finding what feels right for you.

You can learn more about it here…

Nature Journaling Course

Downloadable PDF nature journaling course - 120+ pages, 20 exercises

If you'd like to explore nature journaling more, please consider joining me for my 'Imperfect Nature Journaling' online course - I've called it this to remind us to nature journal for the process of connecting with nature to feel good and not to put pressure on ourselves to create pretty pages which can quickly ruin the fun and the benefits...

It's a series of 20 lessons (in downloadable PDF format) which are great exercises that you can do in your own nature journal to help you try out different ideas and techniques.

This will help you get the most out of your nature journaling sessions and understand what style of nature journaling is the best for you personally.

If this sounds like something you might like, you can find out more about the course here...

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