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Pinecones
We have had great fun in our outdoor playgroup lately. Five years after my first outdoor playgroup with my first-born daughter, I’m starting a new group in a new neighborhood with my second daughter. Last Monday we had fun collecting pinecones on our hike and decorating them.
Outdoor play Christmas
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Add a commentMake Mardi Gras branch and force spring
February is carnival time in a lot of places in the world. It probably did start as a pagan celebration of spring, waking up nature after the winter.
Today most of the carnival celebration is part of the Christian celebration before Lent.
Add a commentHappy Valentine’s Day!
You know, I was going to share with you this wonderful snowman family that we decorated with colored snow hearts for Valentine’s Day. They have been out in the front yard and hopefully cheering everyone who passes by.
Give a heart to the birds
It is a traditional belief or story that on Valentine’s Day the birds find their mates. They have to hook up early in the year to make sure the children will be strong before the fall arrives.
What better Valentine gift can we give our bird friends than to give them some extra energy this winter? Make some suet cakes for your birds. You will attract western bluebirds, chickadees, jays, towhees, warblers, woodpeckers and more to your backyard.
Add a commentIce art
By Andrea LeDuc 
Its a freezing cold day with warnings that children should only be outside for 10 -30 minutes. What to do? Make some ice art!! The kids and I went thru the recycling bin looking for juice boxes and other fun containers. What kid doesn't love pouring water into containers and dropping food colouring? Be careful when filling up balloons. I forgot to add the food colouring first and had a splash of blue all over my kitchen. It also turns out that a 3 year old can add an awful lot of colouring in the blink of an eye LOL.
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