Enjoy these DIY Fairy Garden Ideas for kids that incorporate science, math & engineering learning! Today we are combining a few of our favorite things — gardening, fairies and STEM in this month’s feature of manipulative play and small worlds for kids! We’ve been talking about planting a Fairy Garden for a year now and …
Woohoo! The U.S. National Park Service has announced their FREE entrance days for all National Parks in 2017! One of the big family travel trends for this coming year is nature-focused vacations — unplug, recharge and enjoy being together. We are HUGE fans of the National Park system and try to visit at least one …
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Gulf County Florida. All opinions are 100% mine. We love to go on outdoor adventures as a family! Sometimes it’s as easy as a creek walk at a local park and other times it’s trying something totally new (like snorkeling) when we …
We played outside all the time when I was a kid! Seriously, those had-to-be-called-in-to-eat type of days. Even on school days, I remember walking home with friends and talking about what we’d do that afternoon before dinner. Just like this Come Out and Play! video (definitely brings me back to childhood) — …
This week’s theme in our month-long Olympic Activities for Kids series is STEAM activities. Now I know you’re familiar with many of our STEM ideas for kids (science, technology, engineering & math) — but we don’t do a ton of ‘A’ = Art so I thought we would branch out a little this week. If …
If you’ve been around these parts, you’ll know that we have a fondness for nature activities 😉 Most rooms in our house host some type of nature collection — shells, rocks, tree seeds, leaves in the Fall, etc. And many of these were started on the fly — a trip to the beach, a vacation …
Spring is coming! It is — I promise 🙂 So today we have an awesome list of outdoor activities, nature crafts and games — 50 ways to enjoy the outdoors. Because with Spring comes that super nice weather (not too cold, not too hot), those perfect days when we can open the windows, listen to …
The end of the school year is approaching which means school performances, state assessments and helping the kids to finish all those final projects they need to do.
Then there’s getting the yard and house cleaned up after winter — turning over the garden, putting away winter clothes, cleaning out the garage so we can FIND the spring toys — all that spring cleaning.
This post is sponsored by the Voice of Play. We are joining them this month to inspire families to get outside & explore their local playgrounds! Spring is in the air and for so many children that means heading back to the playground! We’ve already seen an increase in visitors to our neighborhood playground …
I know the rest of the world thinks that Spring begins on March 20th with the Spring Equinox but for us, Spring activities begin the day we turn back the clocks and gain that extra hour of daylight. Ahh… dinner during daylight hours Heading to the park after dinner The sounds of birds in the …