Category: Activities

Next time you head into the woods or a nearby park for a nature walk, (check out this post for ideas for your walk) bring a pail or pouch and collect some conifer cones to bring back to your craft table. Below is one of the many crafts you can create with your littles in… Continue reading Confier & Beeswax Fire Starters

  As I looked at these photos of our time in the woods with friends, weaving yarn among the trees, I couldn’t help but think of how it tells a story of our learning journey. Of all the facets of learning – the people we connect with and learn from – friends, grandparents, neighbors, shop owners,… Continue reading spinning a yarn

The other day the kids seemed like they needed a mission. We had read through the pages of Walking the World in Wonder: A Children’s Herbal (aff link) for the plants that we have in our yard a couple nights before. I put sticky notes on those pages and sent the kids into the yard with… Continue reading Edibles Scavenger Hunt

Getting our hands dirty in the mud. Indoors. So much fun. Making seed bombs with great friends a couple weeks ago was a joyful activity – the kids had a blast studying the seeds with our amazingly effective pocket microscope, and then mixing them together with the clay, soil, and water. I was having such a… Continue reading Scattering Seeds

The seedlings from our germination experiment are coming along well! They’re likely much too early, so I’m not sure what we’ll do with them, but for now we’re enjoying the green that is adding some life to our living room. It’s lovely – if you can get past our ghetto grow light set-up! We have… Continue reading Seedlings

I won’t tell you how many weeks ago our go-to gardening book said to test seeds. Ahem. That said, this is the very first year we have tested for germination, so we’re doing okay in my book. This is a really fun experiment for kids to help with (or take lead on) and depending on how many seeds… Continue reading Gardening with Kids :: Germination Test + Printable

    We’re crafting some bird-watching goodness over here, in preparation for The Great Backyard Bird Count, starting on February 14th. The kids have been working hard on Woodworking Wednesdays with their dad to design and make some wooden bird feeders for our yard. Plans to come. Sign up for our newsletter (top of this page)… Continue reading Coconut Oil Bird Feeders

It is -43C today with the windchill in these parts. We do try to get outside in most weather, but I think we’ll be having a snow day today.  The little ones will likely spend some time playing in the snow – inside. This is something we have done several times throughout the winter season… Continue reading Winter Snow Sensory Bin