My favorite time-lapse video is of Lotte growing up. Her father shot her every day and made two versions: Birth to 12 Years and 0 to 14 years. This is under my life list: Things I Would Do If I Could Do It Over Again. I think I was just too brain-dead when I was raising my kids to ever pull this off.Why do you think we all enjoy time lapse photography? Is it the “cut to the chase”? Or stopping for a second to see how time passes? Or maybe both?
I hope you enjoy these three amazing time lapse nature videos. The first is of an acorn growing into a mighty oak tree over an eight-month period.
This time lapse video is of a mushroom that looks like a toadstool fairy mushroom called a Fly agaric growing and then dying.
This last time lapse video is of bees hatching in their hive.
I have a series of these posts here:
The Kid Should Really See These Videos!
Amazing Videos to Share With Your Kids
My Son’s Favorite Fun and Educational Videos
The Kid Should Really See This Videos
Galileo’s Leaning Tower of Pisa Experiment (then and now)
Best Fun and Educational Videos for Kids (with matching book)
More Fun and Educational Videos for Kids
Follow PragmaticMom’s board Science Fun on Pinterest.
My books:
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Barbed Wire Between Us by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Violeta Encarnación
- ⭐ Starred review from Kirkus
- ⭐ Starred review from Publishers Weekly
- ⭐ Starred review from School Library Journal
- Kirkus: The Most Anticipated Children’s Books of Spring 2026
Free and downloadable guide:
Barbed Wire Between Us Teacher’s Guide
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- California Eureka Non-Fiction Gold Award
- Junior Library Guild Gold Selection
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Winner (from National Council for the Social Studies and Children’s Book Council)
The Traveling Taco:
- California Eureka Non-Fiction Silver Award
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Winner (from National Council for the Social Studies and Children’s Book Council)
- Reading Rockets’ Summer Reading Guide 2025
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We Sing from the Heart: How the Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court
- ALSC Notable Children’s Book
- 2025 Carter G. Woodson Book Award Middle Level Honoree
- Orbis Pictus Recommended Book for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
- 2024 Julia Ward Howe Prize for Children’s Literature Winner
- California Eureka Non-Fiction Award Honor Book
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Winner (from National Council for the Social Studies and Children’s Book Council)
- Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year 2025
- Recommended Reading for the Social Justice Literature Award 2025 (International Literacy Association)
- Pennsylvania Mountain Laurel Book Award Nominee 2026-27
- Junior Library Guild Gold Selection
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Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World
- ⭐ Starred review from School Library Journal!
- Junior Library Guild Gold selection
- Massachusetts Book Award Long List
- dPICTUS 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023
- Chicago Library’s Best of the Best
- 2023 INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist
- Green Earth Book Award Long List
- Nautilus Silver Winner, Nonfiction Children’s Picture Book
- Sunshine State Young Readers Award Orange Blossom List for Nonfiction
- Imagination Soup’s 35 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 for Kids
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Bank Street College’s The Best Children’s Books of the Year
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I love time lapse, but I rarely conjure up the focus/determination to do it. Maybe as my kids get older 🙂
Hi MaryAnne,
I have ambitions to do my own but I doubt I will ever have that kind of patience!