Surprisingly, listening to this song helped my children learn the meaning of the words “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” better than if I had tried explaining it to them!
The girls and I saw this fun craft on Nick Jr. showing how to make a guitar out of recycled household items–the perfect craft for Earth Week! Materials: Tissue Box Paper Towel Roll Paintbrush and Paints Stick or Dried-up Pen Rubber bands Instructions: Paint your tissue box and paper towel tube with fun, bright colors
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The winner of this giveaway is Becca, chosen through random.org who said, ” I love all the fun options that Photofiddle offers!” Photofiddle.com instantly transforms any photo into artwork in minutes. They are the only website that gives you an instant preview of their design before ordering, and if you’re not happy with your design,
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Last week we took a tip to Barnes & Noble to check out if they had any books to help teach us how to take better care of our earth. We came home with three favorites and I highly recommend each one! Help Your Parents Save the Planet by Play Bac “This is the first
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For a treat tonight we made berry-licious smoothies with the girls. While making them I told them a “story” (they listen better to what I have to say when it starts with “once upon a time” and includes a few princess references) to go along with what we were doing. I told them how what
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We have a rule in my home that every single day we have to spend time in nature. In the spring we tend to spend most of our day outside, but in the winter sometimes all we can do is quickly run outside and catch a snowflake. Children’s lives are becoming more fast paced and
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I am finally ready to unveil my new website! This is a project on which I began working a few months after I started this blog, and I am ecstatic it is finally done. Utah’s Natural Kids helps promote the love of natural, eco-friendly and healthy living in children. I will continue to host my
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I am seriously rethinking my Saturday category (Shop!); for the past few months I have NOT felt like shopping. I want my kids to have less, for our lives to be simpler and more natural. I was a bit overwhelmed with the amount of STUFF in our home…until I read the article below. The process
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Two things my girls have enjoyed doing this Spring: playing in the rain and helping me start the garden. The perfect activity for combining these two things is collecting rainwater! With how dry it can be here in Utah we need to save all the water we can. Rainwater can reduce the reliance on city
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Winter is over (well, kinda) and we are starting art group again. I decided an hour before it began I could take two 18-month-olds and a three-year-old to Costco and return in time. I was running around like a crazy lady and became all frazzled. Not a good thing to do before art group, and
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