Outdoor learning is the best type of learning there is. We’ve been lucky to have been able to experience this in 2 opposite climates in the past few years: Portugal and Ireland. At every possible opportunity, we go exploring. Sometimes taking a small side road just to see where it leads, at other times chosing to […]
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Is it Spring in your neighborhood yet? For us on the east coast winter seemed eternal! Living in Philadelphia, PA, our family weathered through a particularly cold winter which stretched all the way into March. Having an active and curious two-year-old made it seem longer. My daughter just wanted to be outside! It is true
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All over the world, there are wonderful traditions where people take simple items like dancing bells, shells or seeds and make them into bracelets, waist belts or anklets. Then, as they dance, they create part of the rhythm just by moving. Have you ever thought of the body as a musical instrument? In the British
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We love to go geocaching with our family. For those that don’t know, geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called “geocaches” or “caches,” at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world.
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My 5-year-old wanted to learn to sew. We made these fun Bedouin weaving inspired bookmarks. The idea was to imitate the Saudi Arabian Sadu cloth more or less but the experience … priceless! Sadu cloth is the traditional craft of Saudi Arabia. It is brightly colored thick woven cloth with simple but bold patterns. The Sadu
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