tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85044007610615988172024-03-13T06:38:49.226-07:00Can You Come Outside to Play?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504400761061598817.post-1010859937864670382011-05-02T10:40:00.000-07:002011-05-02T10:40:10.522-07:00And the winner is...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Congratulations go out to <a href="http://titus2moments.blogspot.com/2011/05/can-you-come-outside-to-play.html">Titus 2 Moments</a>! You are the winner of the drawing for our $30 amazon gift card! Thanks to everyone for participating with us this month! Keep it up and have a great summer outside! <br />
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Did you come outside to play with us? What were your experiences? What were your challenges? Your joys? What new games did you play? What new places did you discover? Did you make it every day? Most days? Was is hard or easy? I want to hear from you! Please comment or link up your experiences. I will randomly select a participant from the comments and links to win the $30 gift card to Amazon.com. (If you joined us at the beginning of April, shared on your facebook page, or blogged about the challenge, or linked up any time this month to our virtual play dates, those entries are entered as well). I look forward to hearing about your experiences! <br />
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Here is our tent all set up and waiting for us.<br />
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We played a comical family game of kickball. Comical because the children couldn't remember having ever played before and kept mixing up the rules with soccer. Andrew didn't want to touch the ball with his hands. Ryan wanted to keep kicking the ball after the initial kick. Molly wanted to pick up the bases. As you can see, eventually we got the hang of it. Kind of. <br />
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After the difficulty with kickball, we decided to stay with a game we all knew the rules to. Hide and seek!<br />
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We moved next to jumping on the trampoline. Then we laid down on the trampoline and watched the sunset together, listening to the sounds of the crickets, birds, and neighborhood dogs.<br />
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Of course we made S'mores once it got dark. How can you have a camp out without them? <br />
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We put on our jammies and read stories and sang songs together until the boys fell asleep.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Later the kids helped take down the tent, and were happy and helpful, despite the fact that they wanted to sleep outside FOREVER! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-djdEsM_L3eM/Tby7hZI-8lI/AAAAAAAAHk0/pwxP2dYF_Uw/s1600/P1090718.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-djdEsM_L3eM/Tby7hZI-8lI/AAAAAAAAHk0/pwxP2dYF_Uw/s320/P1090718.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br />
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I knew this month would be challenging. April is such a busy month for our family. I was afraid that with all we had going on, I would be tempted to justify turning on the tv instead of going outside to play on exceptionally busy days. <br />
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Thank you for joining me in this journey, for taking this challenge with our family. I appreciate your support and enthusiasm. I hope that you have been able to spend more time outside than you usually do, even if you were not able to make it out everyday. I hope that you have been able to get some fun ideas from others who have posted. I hope you have been blessed to create happy memories with your loved ones outside. <br />
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***If you have participated in the challenge, please comment and let me know how you did. It is okay if you did not make it every day. I know sometimes weather or illness make it impossible to get outside. I just want to hear from you if you tried and want to know what the experience has meant to you and your family. All those who comment will be entered into a drawing for the $30 amazon card. I will draw on Monday. (If you signed up at the very beginning and shared it on your facebook pages and blogs, you will also receive entries for those)!<br />
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***There is now a linky up for anyone who would like to share any outside fun they have had this month! All those who link up will be eligible for another entry.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504400761061598817.post-34650293409009825112011-04-29T17:55:00.000-07:002011-04-30T18:13:40.765-07:00April 29th-Afternoon at the ParkFriday was lovely and we decided to go to the park for lunch. Coincidentally, our cousin had the same idea! Ryan was so excited to play at the park with his cousin. They took turns pushing each other in the swing and the spinning chair. (Or as Molly calls it "Potty." I guess she thinks it looks like her little potty seat at home). <br />
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We also made a Resurrection Terrarium. We loved this idea we found on<a href="http://impressyourkids.org/resurrection-easter-ideas-for-kids/"> Impress Your Kids. </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504400761061598817.post-52177932451011616152011-04-22T19:35:00.000-07:002011-04-22T19:35:02.603-07:00April 22nd-Earth DayWe celebrated Earth Day by planting basil, oregano, and daisies together this morning. And, no it wasn't raining yet. We have found that rain coats are awesome for gardening! The dirt rubs right off and our clothes stay dry whenever someone <strike>accidentally </strike>purposely aims the hose in the wrong direction! <br />
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1-<a href="http://richardlouv.com/">Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv </a><br />
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This is my favorite book for grown-ups about why children need to connect with nature each day. It is a wonderful book that describes a relatively new problem "Nature-deficit disorder" and several solutions. He discusses how removed we are from nature and how little time our children spend outside in unstructured play. He also has a new book out that I can't wait to read! If you have not read it yet, bump it up to the top of your to "must read" list.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Green-Hour-Happier-Healthier-Smarter/dp/1590307569">2-The Green Hour: A Daily Dose of Nature for Happier, Healthier, Smarter Kids by Todd Christopher </a><br />
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This is a wonderful resource that gives practical ideas for creating rich experiences outside with our children on a daily basis.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Shoots-Buckets-Boots-Gardening/dp/0761110569">3-Roots, Shoots, Buckets, and Boots: Gardening Together with Children by Sharon Lovejoy</a> <br />
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An excellent resource on ways to make gardening fun, and engaging for children. Includes practical tips on how to include your children in creating a magical garden together. I can't wait to try the Sunflower House with my little ones this summer!<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Favorite Children's Books About Being Outside</span></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Skorpen-pictures-Hardcover-Coward-McCann-Publisher/dp/B000TX7BWS/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1303064345&sr=1-3">1- We Were Tired of Living in a House by Liesel Moak Skorpen </a><br />
This is a delightful story of a group of children who flee outdoors and discover nature. They move from outdoor location to outdoor location looking for the perfect place to live. They climb trees, explore caves, build rafts, and play in the water. In the end, they decide there is no place like home, but they bring a piece of each place they explored with them. There are 2 versions of this book, and I, like most reviewers, prefer the 1969 illustrations. But the new version is also enjoyable and worth sharing with your little ones. My 2 year old enjoys the story, but so does my 6 year old son.<br />
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I am a big Mo Williems fan! Especially his Piggie and Elephant books. In this story the two are very excited to go outside to play, but then it begins to rain. Piggie becomes very upset, but then after watching some worms splash and have fun in the puddles, discovers that she actually likes playing outside in the rain. So of course the rain stops and she is disappointed that it is not raining! It is a sweet lesson about playing outside and making the best of any weather! It is also just plain silly and laugh out loud funny! I love anything that will make all 3 of my children laugh!<br />
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We recently shared this book in our <a href="http://preschoolbookclub.blogspot.com/2011/04/puddle-by-david-mcphail.html">Mommy and Me</a> class. The illustrations and simple words tell the story of a young child's imaginative play outside with his boat in a rain puddle. He is visited by several animals including a frog, crocodile, elephant, and pig at this small puddle. <br />
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Now it is your turn! Please share the fun you had outside this week. And if you have a favorite book about playing outside or favorite BOOKS, please share those as well!<br />
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Although this park is located close to downtown, they have done a good job of leaving some beautiful natural areas to play in. There is a bridge that the little ones kept throwing sticks off. I have never met a child who didn't love throwing sticks into the water and watching them float away.<br />
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My kids have jobs that they do just because they are part of our family and we are a team, but they also have some "money chores" they can do to earn a little money of their own. We follow a plan in a book called <u>Parenting Breakthrough</u> by Merilee Boyack. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this book!<br />
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All 3 had a great time looking for the dandelions, but Andrew was HIGHLY MOTIVATED. He kept going, even after it started to rain hard. He picked 207! <br />
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Do you ever pay your kids to help in the yard?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504400761061598817.post-16009293645011717992011-04-11T18:49:00.000-07:002011-04-11T18:49:14.105-07:00April 11th-Park Play Date<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aO9XzN1-1xk/TaOrlGUcLDI/AAAAAAAAHYQ/GuP0ncypV2M/s1600/P1080020.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aO9XzN1-1xk/TaOrlGUcLDI/AAAAAAAAHYQ/GuP0ncypV2M/s320/P1080020.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BKSNGrmBd5Q/TaOtWyGTkcI/AAAAAAAAHYg/hdb1RpEs1WA/s1600/P1080034.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BKSNGrmBd5Q/TaOtWyGTkcI/AAAAAAAAHYg/hdb1RpEs1WA/s320/P1080034.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>We had a fun time at the park today. The kids played on swings, climbed up trees and slides, and spent a lot of time in these spinning seats. Enough time to make Andrew pretty dizzy. (Not dizzy enough to stop playing in them, though)! I only have pics from the park, but we played outside in our backyard and did some yard work this evening. Lots of fun time outside today! Enough that we have pink cheeks. How about you? Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504400761061598817.post-157196474265963922011-04-10T18:52:00.000-07:002011-04-10T18:52:16.924-07:00April 10th-Outside Storytime<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AcATXSOOiT0/TaJcESj2PPI/AAAAAAAAHYA/soqeMJe3VVQ/s1600/P1070960.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AcATXSOOiT0/TaJcESj2PPI/AAAAAAAAHYA/soqeMJe3VVQ/s320/P1070960.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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I think I would have the hardest time choosing my favorite from this week! We have had the best time outdoors EVERYDAY! Each day was an opportunity to create new memories. Now it is time for you to share your favorite or favorites from this week in our virtual playdate!<br />
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How does a virtual play date work? If you have a blog, please share your website with us by clicking on the linky below. Then take a few moments (or more) to visit the other participants and comment on a few. Let them know that you are participating in our virtual play date. Part of the fun of our challenge will be seeing what our friends around the world are doing to meet the challenge! You can even come back and comment on my blog and tell me which of the play dates were your favorites! <br />
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