Invite Them to Create Their Own Play-Dough Habitats
I love a good invitation to play! I lay out a certain set of materials, perhaps make a few suggestions through simply arranging parts...
Simple Artistic Ways to Use Rocks in Everyday Play
Engaging children and tapping into their innate creative natures can be as simple as starting a rock collection. What child has not been...
Child Driven Creative Play with Nature Inspired Tinker Trays
When I first heard of "Tinker Trays" a couple years back I wasn't sure I what to think. Initially the idea of all of those loose parts...
Winter Solstice Ice Art
If you are following along on our Facebook page, you will have noticed that we have a Sun Calendar in progress right now. Every day is a...
Butterfly House
Butterflies have always drawn me in. I still cherish a book a picked up at my college book store on the journey of the Monarch butterfly....
Raising Little Naturalists
In the book “How to Raise a Wild Child”, the author, Dr. Scott Sampson, tell us that children today can recognize 1,000 corporate logos...
Excitement in the Garden
This is a picture of my son, picking his first "salad" from the modest garden we planted out back. Can you just feel the excitement...
Natural Cycles
vintage scientific plate. Out in the woods yesterday, the kids and I had some great teaching moments. With winter slowly receding, signs...
Nature-Based Learning: Crystals
No matter what age you are...crystals are pretty cool. My four year old has been enamored by them for some time now. Crackable geodes...
D.I.Y. Backyard Bird Feeders
We are working on turning our backyard into a bird sanctuary...one bird feeder at a time. Okay, so I use the word "sanctuary" loosely as...
