April 2010

nesting

Being An Example: Helping Our Kids Get Organized By Modeling It For Them

by Mandi
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I think we’d all agree that teaching our children to organize their belongings and the space around them is a valuable life skill. Unfortunately, it’s not a skill that always comes naturally for us, even as parents. As with any value or habit we want to pass on to our children, however, it’s important to [...]

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crafts

At the Craft Table with Rae Grant: Dandelion Flower Paintbrush Cards

by Rae Grant
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If you want to add a little more nature and artistic flair into your child’s everyday life, try a craft project using freshly picked dandelions to serve as natural paint brushes. Even though Mother’s Day is supposed to be a day off from business as usual at home, it is still fun to work with [...]

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giveaways

Congratulations to The Green Hour Book Giveaway Winners

by Kara
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Thank you to everyone who entered our Earth Day Green Hour book giveaway. The two winners, each of whom will be receiving a copy of Todd Christopher’s book The Green Hour:  A Daily Dose of Nature for Happier, Healthier Smarter Kids, have been selected by Random.Org. The Winners Alyson “My little guy and I love [...]

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books and music

Book Review: Truckery Rhymes

by Jean-Marie
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I have three reasons for my book selection this month.  One, April is National Poetry Month.  Two, Jon Scieszka is awesome.  And three, Truckery Rhymes is one of my 2-year-old son’s favorites books. We are big fans of Jon Scieszka’s other Trucktown picture books — Smash! Crash! and Melvin Might? — so when we found [...]

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play learn explore

Simple as That: Connect With Nature in an Hour a Day – A Green Hour Giveaway

by Kara
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If you could design the perfect learning environment for children, what would it be like?” asks Todd Christopher, co-founder of the National Wildlife Federation’s  Green Hour campaign and author of the new book The Green Hour: A Daily Dose of Nature for Happier, Healthier, Smarter Kids (Trumpeter – March 2010). My vision of the perfect [...]

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