With springtime come outdoor activities in the northern United where I live.  In other parts of the country, it’s already warm, even hot, so you’ve been enjoying the out-of-doors for some time.  In other countries and the Southern Hemisphere, your activities with your children may vary, but you still might find something of interest in the suggestions below.
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 Encourage youngsters to go outdoors if there are safe areas around your home.  If not, see about taking them to a park , a nearby hiking area or national forest.
 Take walks around the neighborhood.  See how everything around you is changing with the …read more

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What are you doing in the natural world around you this week?
*Working in the family garden…planting vegetables and flowers?
*Reading books about animals?
*Learning how to care for your pets?
*Exploring around your yard?   What have you found there?
*Taking a hike this weekend?  Or camping out?
*Catching fireflies?  Watching them light up a jar?  Then letting them loose.
*Watching ants scurrying along carrying food to their hill home?
*Lying on your back in the grass and looking at the clouds form all different shapes?
*Noticing the different shades of green on the leaves and bushes?
*Learning about thunderstorms?
Then searching through your books to learn more about these topics?
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 Blooming in June was the focus of the b5 Lifestyles Channel theme day, hosted by Linette Gerlach’s Mother Earth’s Garden blog. With everyone mentioning blooming, flowers, cooking, or expanding your talents, the blogs have a great deal to offer for broadening your horizons this summer.
One Book Two Book, provided Have Fun With a Nature Station by co-blogger Karen Weideman. My other Lifestyles blog, Quilting and Patchwork participated with Bloom Where You Are in Your Quilting World.
What ideas do you have for June in bloom with your youngsters? 
*Planting flowers
*Planting a vegetable garden
*Drying and pressing flowers for craft work
*Learning the names of birds and …read more