Spring

Happy Easter !

In Toronto, spring is finally in the air and I’m enjoying seeing spring flowers coming up from the ground. This Easter is going to be special and interesting this year, as we have started to renovate our house with a new kitchen and basement. I toying with the idea of pretending we are camping and having our Easter dinner outdoors this year with an open fire and smore’s after dinner.

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Be Active With Your Kids on the Swing Set

One of the most common complaints for parents is having less time to exercise. You know, swinging is not just fun for kids. Adults can make use of the swing set to work up quite a sweat while the kids are having fun. It's great to integrate everyone's needs into playtime activities.

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Outdoor Musical Playtime

Letterboxing

What is letterboxing?  First off, there are two aspects to letterboxing- finding them and leaving them.  The site that I usually use is http://www.letterboxing.org/. You can search the locations of letterboxes all over the world.  You can also create an account to list letterboxes of your own that you have hidden. The roots of letterboxing are debatable, but here is a site with some info: http://www.atlasquest.com/about/history/. Basically they are boxes hidden by people that you can find outdoors by following clues.  Some are easy to find and some are very hard, depending on what kind of a challenge you would like.

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Boy play? Play in the dirt, play monster and ninja games

I often hear this from parents, "My boys are not into nature play" or "They are just into sport or it is so hard to get them outside to play; they would rather be inside playing video games".

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