Wild Wonder Foundation
@wildwonder.bsky.social
Founded in 2022, the Wild Wonder Foundation is dedicated to encouraging nature connection and conservation through attention, curiosity, art, science, and community. Co-founded by award-winning author, artist, and educator John Muir Laws.
Let’s celebrate November in our nature journals! Join Akshay Mahajan as he hosts #NatureJournalingNovember (and #TheTummyJournal), a month of FREE fun nature journaling prompts and “pencil miles” BONUS: FREE online live class, Journaling into Growth, on 11/22/25! wildwonder.org/nj25
November 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Let’s celebrate November in our nature journals! Join Akshay Mahajan as he hosts #NatureJournalingNovember (and #TheTummyJournal), a month of FREE fun nature journaling prompts and “pencil miles” BONUS: FREE online live class, Journaling into Growth, on 11/22/25! wildwonder.org/nj25
Holiday Sketch Party! Learn to Draw Pine Cones and Branches with John Muir Laws, PLUS live musical interludes. Live online class: Monday, 12/1/2025, 4:30-6:30pm Pacific time. FREE! Registration required. Suggested donation: $25.
www.wildwonder.org/store/p/cone...
www.wildwonder.org/store/p/cone...
October 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Holiday Sketch Party! Learn to Draw Pine Cones and Branches with John Muir Laws, PLUS live musical interludes. Live online class: Monday, 12/1/2025, 4:30-6:30pm Pacific time. FREE! Registration required. Suggested donation: $25.
www.wildwonder.org/store/p/cone...
www.wildwonder.org/store/p/cone...
Learn a New Mammal Drawing System with John Muir Laws: Live online class: Sat. 11/8/25, 9-11am Pacific time.* All levels welcome!
FREE! Registration required. Suggested donation: $25. www.wildwonder.org/store/p/mamm...
FREE! Registration required. Suggested donation: $25. www.wildwonder.org/store/p/mamm...
October 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Learn a New Mammal Drawing System with John Muir Laws: Live online class: Sat. 11/8/25, 9-11am Pacific time.* All levels welcome!
FREE! Registration required. Suggested donation: $25. www.wildwonder.org/store/p/mamm...
FREE! Registration required. Suggested donation: $25. www.wildwonder.org/store/p/mamm...
Now available: 2025 Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference Video Pass. Get 30 classes through 4/30/2026 for just $95–bargain! Learn more at wildwonder.org/25
Our amazing teacher team includes Grant Snyder (image 2), @bellandpixel.bsky.social (image 3) and @finchwing.bsky.social (image 4)!
Our amazing teacher team includes Grant Snyder (image 2), @bellandpixel.bsky.social (image 3) and @finchwing.bsky.social (image 4)!
September 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Now available: 2025 Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference Video Pass. Get 30 classes through 4/30/2026 for just $95–bargain! Learn more at wildwonder.org/25
Our amazing teacher team includes Grant Snyder (image 2), @bellandpixel.bsky.social (image 3) and @finchwing.bsky.social (image 4)!
Our amazing teacher team includes Grant Snyder (image 2), @bellandpixel.bsky.social (image 3) and @finchwing.bsky.social (image 4)!
We are thrilled to welcome our newborn zine: Your Quick Start Guide to Nature Journaling a Garden!
In this FREE new zine, learn how and why to nature journal a garden—it helps you slow down, notice more, and sparks JOY and curiosity. wildwonder.org/garden
In this FREE new zine, learn how and why to nature journal a garden—it helps you slow down, notice more, and sparks JOY and curiosity. wildwonder.org/garden
September 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
We are thrilled to welcome our newborn zine: Your Quick Start Guide to Nature Journaling a Garden!
In this FREE new zine, learn how and why to nature journal a garden—it helps you slow down, notice more, and sparks JOY and curiosity. wildwonder.org/garden
In this FREE new zine, learn how and why to nature journal a garden—it helps you slow down, notice more, and sparks JOY and curiosity. wildwonder.org/garden
LOOK—Full Schedule Just Dropped! Join the fun at the seventh Annual Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference, September 10-14, 2025, live online! Learn more, read bios, see the detailed conference schedule, and buy your pass today at wildwonder.org/25
August 24, 2025 at 2:42 AM
LOOK—Full Schedule Just Dropped! Join the fun at the seventh Annual Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference, September 10-14, 2025, live online! Learn more, read bios, see the detailed conference schedule, and buy your pass today at wildwonder.org/25
We want to help you share the joy of nature journaling! Apply for a Wild Wonder Micro Grant! Applications open 9/1 and are due 9/29. Through this program, we support individuals leading projects that bring nature journaling to new audiences. Visit wildwonder.org/grants to learn more. Please share!
August 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
We want to help you share the joy of nature journaling! Apply for a Wild Wonder Micro Grant! Applications open 9/1 and are due 9/29. Through this program, we support individuals leading projects that bring nature journaling to new audiences. Visit wildwonder.org/grants to learn more. Please share!
Join Christian Cooper and Amy Tan—NY Times bestselling authors and avid birders—along with a live ambassador owl, for a special birdy evening. Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025, 5-9pm, The Foster Museum, Palo Alto, CA, Seating is limited. Tickets and more info: wildwonder.org/foster25
@amytan.bsky.social
@amytan.bsky.social
July 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Join Christian Cooper and Amy Tan—NY Times bestselling authors and avid birders—along with a live ambassador owl, for a special birdy evening. Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025, 5-9pm, The Foster Museum, Palo Alto, CA, Seating is limited. Tickets and more info: wildwonder.org/foster25
@amytan.bsky.social
@amytan.bsky.social
Guess where @johnmuirlaws.com found these epic scissors? The new studio of @wendymacnaughton.bsky.social !! What a thrill to witness the first in-person meeting of these minds! Big thanks to Wendy for opening your door to our impromptu fan club (with @katerutter.bsky.social & @amytan.bsky.social )
June 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Guess where @johnmuirlaws.com found these epic scissors? The new studio of @wendymacnaughton.bsky.social !! What a thrill to witness the first in-person meeting of these minds! Big thanks to Wendy for opening your door to our impromptu fan club (with @katerutter.bsky.social & @amytan.bsky.social )
What a fantastic nature journaling session with @johnmuirlaws.com hosted by Children & Nature Network. In Jack’s inspiring talk and demo, he studied, drew, and dissected a passionflower. He also shared pages from his first nature journal. Catch the replay on C&NN’s YouTube in about 2 weeks.
June 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
What a fantastic nature journaling session with @johnmuirlaws.com hosted by Children & Nature Network. In Jack’s inspiring talk and demo, he studied, drew, and dissected a passionflower. He also shared pages from his first nature journal. Catch the replay on C&NN’s YouTube in about 2 weeks.
Who doesn’t love a free zine? Visit the store link in bio or wildwonder.org/zines for free downloads of 4 different nature zines, including the three you see here!
June 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Who doesn’t love a free zine? Visit the store link in bio or wildwonder.org/zines for free downloads of 4 different nature zines, including the three you see here!
Join artist, birder, nature lover, and teacher Sofia Gazarian as she hosts #NatureJournalingJune, a month of FREE nature journaling prompts. Bonus: free class on Sketching Birds on 6/28–registration required. Visit wildwonder.org/nj25 for more info and free tutorials.
June 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Join artist, birder, nature lover, and teacher Sofia Gazarian as she hosts #NatureJournalingJune, a month of FREE nature journaling prompts. Bonus: free class on Sketching Birds on 6/28–registration required. Visit wildwonder.org/nj25 for more info and free tutorials.
Join bestselling author and artist Sushma Hegde @sushmahegde.bsky.social as she hosts #NatureJournalingMay, a month of free nature journaling prompts! Sushma is also teaching a FREE online live class on 5/17/25! Registration required. Learn more and sign up: wildwonder.org/nj25
April 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Join bestselling author and artist Sushma Hegde @sushmahegde.bsky.social as she hosts #NatureJournalingMay, a month of free nature journaling prompts! Sushma is also teaching a FREE online live class on 5/17/25! Registration required. Learn more and sign up: wildwonder.org/nj25
Excited to share the trailer for Watershed: Learning That Flows From Nature, a documentary short—featuring John Muir Laws—that tells the story of an inspiring outdoor ed program in Northern California. Film to be released in late 2025. Learn more and watch the trailer: wildwonder.org/watershed
April 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Excited to share the trailer for Watershed: Learning That Flows From Nature, a documentary short—featuring John Muir Laws—that tells the story of an inspiring outdoor ed program in Northern California. Film to be released in late 2025. Learn more and watch the trailer: wildwonder.org/watershed
Say you’ll BEE there! Early Bird Passes on sale now for the 7th annual Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference–live online September 10-14, 2025.
WHAT’S ALL THE BUZZ ABOUT? Learn more, check out the stellar line up of speakers and teachers, and sign up now at wildwonder.org/25
WHAT’S ALL THE BUZZ ABOUT? Learn more, check out the stellar line up of speakers and teachers, and sign up now at wildwonder.org/25
April 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Say you’ll BEE there! Early Bird Passes on sale now for the 7th annual Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference–live online September 10-14, 2025.
WHAT’S ALL THE BUZZ ABOUT? Learn more, check out the stellar line up of speakers and teachers, and sign up now at wildwonder.org/25
WHAT’S ALL THE BUZZ ABOUT? Learn more, check out the stellar line up of speakers and teachers, and sign up now at wildwonder.org/25
Learn to Draw and Paint Hummingbirds with John Muir Laws
Live Online: Saturday, May 3, 10am-12pm Pacific* FREE, Registration required. $25 suggested donation. All ages and levels welcome! www.wildwonder.org/events
Live Online: Saturday, May 3, 10am-12pm Pacific* FREE, Registration required. $25 suggested donation. All ages and levels welcome! www.wildwonder.org/events
April 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Learn to Draw and Paint Hummingbirds with John Muir Laws
Live Online: Saturday, May 3, 10am-12pm Pacific* FREE, Registration required. $25 suggested donation. All ages and levels welcome! www.wildwonder.org/events
Live Online: Saturday, May 3, 10am-12pm Pacific* FREE, Registration required. $25 suggested donation. All ages and levels welcome! www.wildwonder.org/events
The life-changing practice of nature journaling helps you slow down, pay attention, notice more, and appreciate the joy, peace, wonder, and beauty that nature offers us every day. And through this deep appreciation of nature, we can be inspired to take care of this precious planet. wildwonder.org.
April 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The life-changing practice of nature journaling helps you slow down, pay attention, notice more, and appreciate the joy, peace, wonder, and beauty that nature offers us every day. And through this deep appreciation of nature, we can be inspired to take care of this precious planet. wildwonder.org.
Let’s Draw Trees! with Kate Rutter @katerutter.bsky.social and Cathy Raingarden
4/6/25 9:30-11am Pacific*
FREE but registration required. Suggested donation: $25. Sign up: wildwonder.org/shop
We’ll have a “tree-mendous” time drawing trees together and kick off the #ArborApril challenge!
4/6/25 9:30-11am Pacific*
FREE but registration required. Suggested donation: $25. Sign up: wildwonder.org/shop
We’ll have a “tree-mendous” time drawing trees together and kick off the #ArborApril challenge!
March 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Let’s Draw Trees! with Kate Rutter @katerutter.bsky.social and Cathy Raingarden
4/6/25 9:30-11am Pacific*
FREE but registration required. Suggested donation: $25. Sign up: wildwonder.org/shop
We’ll have a “tree-mendous” time drawing trees together and kick off the #ArborApril challenge!
4/6/25 9:30-11am Pacific*
FREE but registration required. Suggested donation: $25. Sign up: wildwonder.org/shop
We’ll have a “tree-mendous” time drawing trees together and kick off the #ArborApril challenge!
Let’s make maps! Join Roseann Hanson— a lifelong explorer, author, and nature journaler— for a FREE class on the art and science of making maps in your nature journal: 3/22/25, 10-11:30am Pacific. FREE, but registration required, suggested donation: $25. Sign up here: wildwonder.org/shop
March 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Let’s make maps! Join Roseann Hanson— a lifelong explorer, author, and nature journaler— for a FREE class on the art and science of making maps in your nature journal: 3/22/25, 10-11:30am Pacific. FREE, but registration required, suggested donation: $25. Sign up here: wildwonder.org/shop
In 2024, Wild Wonder turned TWO! And though we are a young nonprofit, we have a whole lot to celebrate. Visit wildwonder.org/ar24 to explore a bigger version of our annual report, illustrated by @katerutter.bsky.social, and read details on all the numbers (as well as the species!).
March 4, 2025 at 4:33 AM
In 2024, Wild Wonder turned TWO! And though we are a young nonprofit, we have a whole lot to celebrate. Visit wildwonder.org/ar24 to explore a bigger version of our annual report, illustrated by @katerutter.bsky.social, and read details on all the numbers (as well as the species!).
For #NatureJournalingMarch, join our host teacher Roseann Hanson for a celebration of nature and “pencil miles”!* Each day in March, create a page in your nature journal based on the daily prompt from this list. Visit wildwonder.org/nj25 for info and free resources for each prompt.
March 1, 2025 at 6:47 AM
For #NatureJournalingMarch, join our host teacher Roseann Hanson for a celebration of nature and “pencil miles”!* Each day in March, create a page in your nature journal based on the daily prompt from this list. Visit wildwonder.org/nj25 for info and free resources for each prompt.
Still a few spots left in the Wild Wonder Sierra Nevada Nature Journaling Retreat, Aug 3-8. This magical and joyful adventure will be led by John Muir Laws, Mark Simmons, and Robin Lee Carlson. Visit wildwonder.org/retreats25 to read the juicy details and sign up today! (Pics from 2024)
February 27, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Still a few spots left in the Wild Wonder Sierra Nevada Nature Journaling Retreat, Aug 3-8. This magical and joyful adventure will be led by John Muir Laws, Mark Simmons, and Robin Lee Carlson. Visit wildwonder.org/retreats25 to read the juicy details and sign up today! (Pics from 2024)
Thanks to all who joined us today for Learn to Paint Landscapes with John Muir Laws. “Loving it! No more fear of drawing landscapes here!” raved one student. If you missed it, no prob! Sign up at wildwonder.org/events and we’ll send the class recording and lots of
links shared in class by 3/1.
links shared in class by 3/1.
February 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Thanks to all who joined us today for Learn to Paint Landscapes with John Muir Laws. “Loving it! No more fear of drawing landscapes here!” raved one student. If you missed it, no prob! Sign up at wildwonder.org/events and we’ll send the class recording and lots of
links shared in class by 3/1.
links shared in class by 3/1.
BIG NEWS: YOU are invited to join the global nature journaling community in WONDERLAND! This is a new FREE, online, private, creative, and joyful space where we gather to share ideas, meet other nature journalers, learn from each other, and have fun! Join today! wonderland.wildwonder.org
February 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
BIG NEWS: YOU are invited to join the global nature journaling community in WONDERLAND! This is a new FREE, online, private, creative, and joyful space where we gather to share ideas, meet other nature journalers, learn from each other, and have fun! Join today! wonderland.wildwonder.org
Now On Sale with Extended Access: Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference Video Pass. Get 30 talks and classes for just $45….JUST $1.50 per class/talk! Check out the awesome global team of teachers and speakers, explore the schedule, and get your sale pass now at wildwonder.org/24
February 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Now On Sale with Extended Access: Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference Video Pass. Get 30 talks and classes for just $45….JUST $1.50 per class/talk! Check out the awesome global team of teachers and speakers, explore the schedule, and get your sale pass now at wildwonder.org/24