When I first got this notice , Julia and I immediately sent her teacher an email about the upcoming Coalition of Immokalee Workers Kid’s Coloring Contest and guess what? She gave it to the school art teacher who is now getting ALL the grades involved! It’s awesome! Here’s the flier and info if you and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘children’
Campaign for Fair Food Drawing Contest
Posted in Action Alerts & Activism, Fun Stuff for Kids, tagged art, children, ciw, coalition of Immokalee workers, coloring, contest, homeschool, kids on February 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Valuable Websites Help Parents Make Informed Decisions about Media
Posted in Fun Stuff for Kids, Natural Baby Care, tagged children, children and media, Media on July 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Common Sense Media offers reviews of movies, television shows, video games, and websites that are geared towards children. The “Common Sense Tips for a Healthy Media Diet” provide concerned parents with guidelines for managing the media their children encounter each day. Parents who are interested in the latest research will find it here as well [...]
Making a Root Viewer and “One Bean” Book
Posted in Fun Stuff for Kids, Organic Gardening, tagged Anne Rockwell, bean, child, children, garden, gerdning, homeschool, kids, Megan Halsey, one bean, project, root, time lapse, view on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’re just around the corner from breaking out the seeds, transplants, compost, and more. Over at my house, we have to get the square foot garden beds ready by building new grids. Those of you gardening with children might want to think about ways to incorporate them into the fun of fall planting. While you [...]
Armchair Activist: Petition to Rebuild the Russell Home
Posted in Action Alerts & Activism, tagged atypical, children, disabled, handicapped, non-profit, Orlando, petition, russell home on May 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This one came across my desk today so I’ve got another for the armchair activists to crusade in the name of keeping local good stuff happening! It is an online petition to encourage “Extreme Makeover” to take on the project of rebuilding the Russell Home. If you hadn’t heard about it before, here’s some bits [...]
SFG Series: Planting Your 4 x 4 ft Raised Bed
Posted in Fun Stuff for Kids, Organic Gardening, tagged children, flowers, growing, kids, planting, raised bed, seeds, SFG, square foot gardening, vegetables on February 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
DECIDE WHAT TO PLANT What you decide to grow is up to you. But if you are gardening with very young children, you may want to consider fast growers and/or chunky seeds like radish, bush beans, or teddy bear sunflowers. For even faster results transplant marigold, bush or patio tomato, basil, parsley, etc. Just take [...]
SFG Series: Filling Your 4 x 4 ft raised Bed
Posted in Fun Stuff for Kids, Organic Gardening, tagged children, compost, flowers, garden, grow, peat moss, project, SFG, square foot gardening, vegetables, vermiculite on January 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“Dirt Day” is always a fun day over at my house. My preschooler looooves to dig and it’s one of her favorite parts to getting a new bed together. In the All New Square Foot Gardening book, Mel Bartholomew suggests this formula for making up your soil mix for your raised bed: 1/3 vermiculite 1/3 [...]
SFG Series: Building a 4 x 4 ft Raised Bed
Posted in Fun Stuff for Kids, Organic Gardening, tagged backyard, building, children, growing, kids, raised bed, SFG, square foot garden, vegetables, wood on January 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Different Types of Raised Beds There are many kinds of raised beds to fit any budget and style. For our 4 x 4 ft square foot gardening project, I’ve tried to keep it simple and affordable by going with a plain wooden box frame that can be made and installed in less than an hour: [...]
Square Foot Gardening With Children (and Kid’s Tools!)
Posted in Fun Stuff for Kids, Organic Gardening, tagged build, child-size, children, garden, hoe, homeschool, kids, preschool, raised bed, rake, SFG, shovel, square foot gardening, tools on January 12, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Introduction I started putting in a 100 sq ft kitchen garden for myself last summer. I’m still nowhere close to being done installing beds and I’m still learning as I go along when it comes to growing edibles. But I’ve really gotten to love spending time with my preschooler puttering around in the yard. I’ve [...]
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