In celebration of Earth Day, we spent a beautiful day outdoors. Gardening, finding bugs, riding bikes and skateboards. The best part was just sitting in the warm sun. The news had forecasted rain for this weekend, but both days were beautiful! We also enjoyed our first backyard family BBQ.
I found the most wonderful book at the library!
SUNFLOWER HOUSES, Garden Discoveries for Children of All Ages by Sharon Lovejoy.
It has many great ideas on getting your little ones involved with the garden. Things such as writing their name with a heart around it with plants. (We did this with lettuce and beets. I will post a photo once the sprouts grow a bit more.) Creating sunflower houses..(yes, really), or a tee pee using poles, beans, gourds. Or, use hollowed out gourds for bird houses. These are just a few of my favorites.
We also spent some time discussing with Noah what Earth Day means to us, and asked him what we can do to better take care of the Earth. He sort of gets it! He's all about the 3 R's, and turning off the lights. Now... we just need to stop wasting so much water, and work on phasing out some of our 'convenience items'. Slowly but surely, we'll get there.
2 comments:
What fun! I was sick with a cold on earth day, but the kids and I went to a wonderful informational field trip on Friday to our local astronomy museum here in Hilo for a tour of their landscape made up of native and non-native hawaiian plants. We are also starting a garden here....Kalo(Taro) is already growing wonderfully! There's nothing like being in the yard under the sun!!
Love that book! We've always wanted to plant a sunflower house, but have never had the room for it.
Have you seen her other book "Roots, Shoots, Buckets, and Boots"?
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