Camping with the Smalls…The Mighty Mud Slide!
“For ourselves, and for our planet, we must be both strong and strongly connected — with each other, with the earth. As children, we need time to wander, to be outside, to nibble on icicles, watch...
View ArticleCamping With the Smalls…Swamp Soup!
“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” ~Harriet Van Horne There comes a time in every camping trip where children proclaim there is “nothing to do!” It’s...
View ArticleKids Only Backyard Clubhouse…A Very Special DIY
“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild,...
View ArticleBuild a Backyard Bug Hotel…
“Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.” ~Christina Georgina Rossetti Children love to observe bugs…plain and simple. So this week, we all worked together to build...
View ArticleIt’s Not JUST a Sandbox…Turn Your Sand Play Area into Something Special
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.” ~Carl Jung If you give a child a sandbox, he will play in it. If you give a child a sandbox equipped...
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