If you are local, check out the giveaway at the end of the post... Last week my two youngest kiddos, (my daughter's friend), and my hubby hit up one of our favorite places in Columbus...the Science Center, COSI. We have been season pass holders off and on throughout the years but not of late so it had been awhile since we had been there for any length of time (minus that preschooler event in June). We were excited to check out the new Lego Castle exhibit though since all three of my kids are … [Read more...]
Rainbow Spaghetti for Sensory Play
My husband and I took our six year old kiddo to an Early Learning class at our local Science Center this morning. It was oodles of fun for all but out of the five learning/fun stations available my son would only participate in one. It was the one that had bugs of course...cockroaches, worms, and banana slugs. Once he saw those he didn't care to play with paints, ooblek, blocks, etc. Nothing else could compete with bugs. I could not resist the rainbow spaghetti sensory tub however and I think … [Read more...]
Let the Children Lead the Way
I am a big fan of child led learning. Many school principals and I have squared off over this issue. For some reason they just don't like it when they come to you to complain about how your child doesn't want to work on the assignments given to them and you say in return... "Well, perhaps it is boring them to tears. Have you tried reaching them by finding out what THEY want to learn about?" Often this is met with a sigh and look of pity about my apparent naivete. But I know it in my heart to be … [Read more...]
Mother’s Day Gifts for Green Moms
Knowing what to get a green mom for Mother's Day can be a tough call. In general most green moms believe in reduce, reduce, reduce, reuse whenever we can, and then when we HAVE to... recycle. The commercialization of Mother's Day often means we get gift and get "crap we don't need". But if you take into consideration what a mom values, what a green mom values, and what type of gifts we would actually use... then you can come up with a few sure fire ideas. 1. Gift the Gift of Time - No fancy … [Read more...]
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