on April 10th, 2012%
Are you planning any Earth Day activities on April 22nd? Celebrated around the world, Earth Day is a great time to pause and reflect the impact you, your kids and your family have on the earth.
Last year we carried out an eco-audit of our play, looking at simple but effective ways we could align our activities with the ideas of reducing, re-using and recycling.
This year, we’re joining in with the Earth Day Celebrations hosted by Mommy Labs and Greening Sam and Avery to bring you a blog hop bursting with ideas you can use to celebrate Earth Day with your kids. Have a browse around the blog hop at the end of this post to find ideas for art, crafts, games, activities and positive action your family can take to go a little greener this month. First though, here’s what the NurtureStore girls came up with as an Earth Day play idea: we grew an indoor meadow!
Earth Day activities: grow a meadow indoors!
I still haven’t decided if this was a crazy or genius idea but Read more »
on January 18th, 2012%
 I’m working with BritMums and British Gas on a campaign to help educate about energy conservation. Here are my five top tips for green kids, to help families save energy – starting when kids are young to encourage lifelong habits.
Five tips for green kids Read more »
on April 20th, 2011%
Are you celebrating Earth Day with your children this Friday 22nd April 2011? For environmentally-friendly, creative play we love to make junk models. We love using items from our craft box which otherwise would be thrown away – turning them into toys and extending the life of the materials.
Here’s a showcase of our favourite upcycled junk . . . → Read More: Junk model ideas
on April 19th, 2011%
Are you celebrating Earth Day with your children this Friday 22nd April? It’s a great opportunity to review your family life and see what changes you can make to go green. Here are some ideas for an eco-audit of your play.
REDUCE
How many toys do you really need? Instead of a house full of more and more . . . → Read More: How to celebrate Earth Day
on April 20th, 2010%
With Earth Day and St. George’s Day both falling in this week, why not combine the two to make a Recycled Egg Box Dragon? Big says he’s ‘fantastically ferocious’!
You will need: 3 egg boxes, green paint & a paint brush, red paper, 2 treasury tags, glue / sticky tape, red and black . . . → Read More: Egg Box Dragon
on April 17th, 2010%
How green are your kids?
April 22nd 2010 is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day and an excellent opportunity to give your home an eco-audit and ask yourself how environmentally-friendly is your play. Following the ‘reduce, re-use, recycle‘ mantra is an easy way to make simple and effective changes to create an eco-home.
Here are some . . . → Read More: Celebrate Earth Day
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