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Visiting Clare/St. Mary’s Bay, Nova Scotia

Lighthouses parked on rugged cliffs, colorful fishing boats navigating harbors, bossy seagulls scouting for their next meals, crabs scurrying to hide under barnacle covered rocks, weathered barns next to gingerbread…

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Easy Paper Snow Cloud Craft

Today, we are sharing an easy yet adorable recycled paper craft.  When the clouds in our sky are not producing snowflakes, we turn to these cuties to brighten our day!…

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A Closer Look at Birds

As the weather cools and the world gets buried in white winter, we begin to set up our patio bird feeders and wait for them to be discovered.  Living in…

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A Closer Look at Germs

We were all hit with a cold bug at the same time, which means all four of us were couch-bound, tissue-in-nostril, moaning and fevered at once!  It was a super…

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Easy Pine Cone Bird Feeder

We have so much fun every winter, feeding our backyard birds.  With our harsh winters, we love giving them a boost to carry them through the season. Although we have…

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A Closer Look at Bread

Our activity today with “The Playful Pioneers” by The Peaceful Press was to make French bread.  It is painful to admit that we have never done this together before! We…

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Making Chia Seed Jam with Kids

One of the highlights of Summer for us is berry picking.  Whether it’s blueberries and strawberries from our garden, wild strawberries from our yard or blackberries and raspberries that we…

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Our Preschool Resources

Preschool or Pre-K depending on where you live, is such an incredibly fun stage in the homeschooling journey!  A gentle introduction to reading, writing and basic mathematics seems to be…

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    Our Favorite Usborne Books

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    “Big Picture Atlas” by Emily Bone “See Inside Great Cities” by Rob Lloyd Jones and David Hancock “Look Inside Our World” by Emily Bone “See Inside Exploration and Discovery” by Emily Bone “Look Inside Mummies and Pyramids” by Rob Lloyd Jones “Big Picture Book: Long Ago” by Laura Cowan “See Inside Castles” by Katie Daynes “Look Inside Things that Go” by Rob Lloyd Jones “Big Book of Big Trains” by Megan Cullis “Big Book of Stars and Planets” by Emily Bone “Look Inside Space” by Rob Lloyd Jones “See Inside…

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    Our Favorite Nature Themed Picture Books

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    A few of our favorite nature themed books for your wild and free family! “Water is Water” by Miranda Paul “The Camping Trip” by Jennifer Mann “Finding Wild” by Megan Wagner Lloyd “The Big Alfie Out of Doors Book” by Shirley Hughes “The Golden Glow” by Benjamin Flouw “Over and Under the Pond” by Kate Messner “The Raft” by Jim LaMarche   “The Not So Great Outdoors” by Madeline Kloepper “Red Sky at Night” by Elly MacKay “Tiny Perfect Things” by M.H. Clark “The Hike” by Alison Farrell “This is…

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    Easy Busy-Bag Ideas

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    “Busy Bags” were first invented to keep your littles busy…NOT you!  So, step away from your laminator, drop the glue gun and quickly put together these EASY busy-bags! Toss one in your purse or diaper bag and go…Easy Peasy!  To contain our fun, I absolutely adore these cotton bags from Jessica Joy ART + CRAFT, they work perfectly!  They are made with a fold-top, which means they are so easy for little hands and I don’t have to worry about zippers catching fingers!  I also love that I can simply…

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