Give A Kid a Camera is an opportunity to share photos of nature taken by children. Come see what nature looks like through the eyes of young explorers. This Week’s IdeaEncourage your child to capture a favorite place in your backyard.This might not look like much to most of you, but this is our just-planted vegetable garden (see the white markers sticking up?). I’m tickled that … [Read more...]
Solutions to Our Biggest Green Hour Challenges
Today’s post is part of “Your Green Hour Survival Guide,” a series which I hope will provide inspiration to make getting outside every day a habit.We recently passed the 2-month mark in our efforts to make time for a Green Hour every day. We’ve far surpassed our goal of getting outside at least 15 minutes a day – it’s been more like 50 plus minutes on most days. And we’ve only … [Read more...]
Fun Friday: Create a Fairy Garden
It’s been nearly a year since The Big Explorer built a fairy house. But thanks to several visits from the tooth fairy since then, he hasn’t lost his belief in the magical world in which they exist. When I suggested it might be fun to build a fairy garden in our backyard, he jumped to it. He immediately started drawing a blueprint for the garden, which he called his “fairy … [Read more...]
Get Outside Giveaway for Gardening Fun
Each week this month – which is Let’s G.O. (Get Outside) Month – I’m hosting a “Get Outside” giveaway featuring one of our favorite things. This week’s item: Vegetable Garden SeedsWhy We Love ItThis week, we planted a vegetable garden for the second year in a row. That’s saying a lot, since last year we had very little success. Even though our first vegetables didn’t produce as … [Read more...]
Celebrate Earth Day Outside
Photo by D Sharon PruittDoes that headline seem like a no-brainer to you? I hope so. Sure, there are plenty of books you could read, crafts you could make or discussions you could have with your kids about what Earth Day (April 22) is all about. But like I said in my post earlier this week on how to raise kids who care about the planet, the most important thing you can do is to … [Read more...]