I wrote last week about the what and why’s of nature walking. This week I wanted to give some ideas to get your creative minds going on ways to incorporate God’s glorious creation into your family’s life! Two important things to keep in mind before setting out: Keep it Open-Ended. It is fun to have […]
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Pinning Down Africa!
As is beautifully demonstrated in the book, Africa Is Not A Country, Africa is pretty much impossible to pin down in a neat little one-dimensional box. But that didn’t keep us from pinning it down in the most literal of ways! We found these fun little cork tiles at the craft store and had fun […]
Food sculptures
All of this talk of food, nutrition and teaching our children, reminded me of something my sister had written a while back. She has graciously agreed to ‘guest post’ here. What a powerful lesson in modeling to our children and yet also holding expectations lightly and allow them to express themselves artistically in an open-ended, […]
Doing School vs. Power of Play
The whole concept of ‘doing school’ is a hard one to escape from, especially in this age of high competitiveness and desire to give our children an edge or just satisfy family members who are skeptical of anything other than traditional education. Even if those aren’t temptations for you, we oftentimes wonder just how to […]
Quiet Sorting
Beads are amazing. I remembered that I had this big bag of them and pulled them out the other day to play a sorting game with my two year old. He had been trying to get up on the stools with the bigger boys, so I pulled him aside to do something special with him […]
Flamingo-ing
Inspiration can come from many different sources. Recently we were inspired by another blog in our learning journey. Sometimes, inspiration can just jump out from the pages of a library book. We are in the middle of learning about birds. Keegan, my 3 year old, picked out this book on Flamingo’s at the library. It prompted some […]