Sample Issues of Nature Friend Magazine

We appreciate your interest in Nature Friend and welcome your review.

A quick overview:

Nature Friend is a Creator-honoring nature magazine the whole family can enjoy. Children and families may participate in many ways. We encourage families to work together on contest submissions. It is a great way to have fun, experience nature, and build relationships.
No external advertisers subsidize your subscription, so your purchase buys magazines, not ads. Even though we do not have advertisers (and postage rates rise almost every year), we’ve been able to hold your cost per issue to about the same as one gallon of milk per month.

You may review several sample issues here and then purchase a subscription online or call 877-434-0765. If you prefer, you may order a Premium Edition sample issue for $11.

April 2025 Nature Friend and the Premium Edition content that is added to the center of the magazine for those who purchase this edition.

We encourage participation by readers. Most features appear in each issue, though some are in approximately every other issue. Features include

Stories & Articles – Character-building, Creator-honoring. Colorful photos typically illustrate stories and articles. Any artwork illustrations are realistic rather than comic drawings.
You Can Draw – Each issue has a drawing lesson of a bird, animal, or some other nature topic, as well as children’s drawings from a previous lesson.
Learning by Doing – A craft project, science experiment, or other educational article.
Pictures & Poems – Drawings and poetry submitted by readers.
Invisibles – A drawing with numerous objects hidden within it.
Puzzles – Some are submitted by readers; Study Guide puzzles reinforce the facts learned in the magazine.
Scavenger Hunt – We hide two (or more) related objects somewhere in the magazine. On page 4 you can see what the objects are; however, they may be any size or color where they are hidden.
Creation Close-ups – Nature photos taken by readers.
The Heavens Declare and In Our Skies – Astronomy-related articles appearing every other month.
Caption This – Every other month we feature a photograph we expect to use on the back cover of an upcoming issue. We invite you to submit your caption for the photograph. We will use one or several of the captions when we feature the photo on the back cover.