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Sensory spring water table: sights, touches, and smells of Spring!

Sensory Spring Water Table

Isn’t Spring a wonderful season? Setting up a sensory Spring Water Table is very easy (especially if, like me, your yard has …

Dandelion Games! Spring themed games to get moving outside

Dandelion Games

To celebrate the Spring, and to play with the bright yellow dandelions dotting our yard, we hosted our own “Dandelion Games!” This …

Tips for gardening with kids

Tips for Gardening With Kids

For the last few years, we’ve let our son play a large role in planning our garden, both with flowers and vegetables. …

The Snowy Day Activities

One of my favorite winter books is The Snowy Dayby Ezra Jack Keats (if you’re a Facebook fan, you might remember that I …

Ho Ho Ho Hopscotch

Yesterday’s unseasonably warm weather meant we spent most of the day outside, without so much as a jacket. This gave us lots …

Exploring Leaf Color Changes

Jumping in leaf piles, catching leaves as they fall from trees, crunching leaves in our fingers, tossing leaves in the air, collecting …

Old Pumpkin Experiment

Do you have any pumpkins you painted/colored/decorated rather than carved? Last year (unbeknownst to me!) my husband and our son decided to …