What’s the best thing you did with your kids this year? Today the Kids Bloggers Network is bringing together the very best kids activities of 2012, to share with you a great selection of ideas you can use with your children in the coming year. All the ideas have been tried and tested with our kids and come highly recommended.
It’s hard to chose one post as our favourite but I thought I’d pick a post which has shaped our whole playful year – and is extra special to me. Plus, I get to share a special New Year offer with you.
Our year of outdoor play
I asked the girls and they said the best thing they did this year was play outside in our Garden Classroom- making dens, growing meadows, raising butterflies and eating home~grown raspberries. Our outdoor play is so important to us, and the best thing I did on the blog this past year was gather together 52 of our favourite garden ideas and put them into a e-book: The Garden Classroom.
The Garden Classroom contains a whole year’s worth of ideas you can use with your children to give them a playful connection to nature. There’s gardening, art, crafts, science, and play. Wherever you live, whatever the season, however big or small your garden space, there are ideas you can use to maximise the benefit to your children.
You can read more about The Garden Classroom, and see what other people thought of it – and would you like a copy for your family or class?
Get The Garden Classroom for half-price!
I thought I’d pass on some of our fun and offer The Garden Classroom to you at half-price, to start off the new year.
Between now and 7th January 2013 you can get a copy of The Garden Classroom for just $4.99 – that’s a $5 saving. Just enter the code: Grow when you make your purchase. You can buy the e-book wherever you are in the world as Paypal will convert the currency for you.
The book comes to you as an instant download that you can save, read or print. Buy your copy here.
Happy New Outdoor Playing Year from me and the girls!
What’s the best thing you did with your kids in 2012?
Link up your favourite post from 2012 in our linky ~ and all the bloggers hosting the Best of 2012 will share it on their blogs for all the world to see!
The Best of 2012, brought to you by:
52 Brand New ~ Adventures in Mommydom ~ angeliquefelix.com – The Magic Of Play ~ At home with Ali
B-Inspired Mama ~ Blog Me Mom ~Boy Mama Teacher Mama ~ Busy Kids = Happy Mom
Carrots Are Orange ~ Caution! Twins at Play ~ Coffee Cups and Crayons ~ Confessions of a Montessori Mom
Craft To Art ~ Creative Family Fun ~ Creative Kid Snacks ~ Creative Learning Fun ~ Creative Playhouse
Creative with Kids ~ Cute and Peculiar ~ De tout et de rien: Activités pour le Préscolaire ~ Dirt And Boogers
Edventures with Kids ~ Enchanted Homeschooling Mom ~ The Good Long Road ~ Frogs and snails and puppy dog tails
Glittering Muffins ~ Go Kid Yourself ~ Growing A Jeweled Rose ~ hands on : as we grow ~ Here Come the Girls
Home Learning Journey ~ Housing A Forest ~ Mama Smiles ~ In Lieu of Preschool ~ Inspiration Laboratories
Inspired by Family ~ It’s A Long Story ~ JDaniel4′s Mom ~ Kids Creative Chaos ~ Kid World Citizen ~ Kindergarten & Preschool for Parents & Teachers ~ Kitchen Counter Chronicles ~ Laughing Kids Learn ~ Learn with Play at home ~ Lessons Learnt Journal ~ Life At The Zoo ~ Little Artists ~ Living Life Intentionally ~ Living Montessori Now ~ Love, Play, Learn ~ Loving My Nest ~ Mama Pea Pod ~ mama miss ~ Mamas Like Me ~ Mess For Less ~ Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas ~ Momma’s Fun World ~ Montessori Tidbits ~ My Buddies and I ~ My Little Bookcase ~ My Nearest and Dearest ~ No Twiddle Twaddle ~ Nurturestore ~ Octavia and Vicky ~ One Perfect Day ~ ourfeminist{play}school ~ Picklebums ~ Play Activities ~ Playdough to Plato ~ PlayDrMom ~ playful learners ~ playing with words 365 ~ PragmaticMom Putti’sWorld ~ RainbowsWithinReach ~ Rainy Day Mum ~ Raising Playful Tots ~ Reading Confetti ~ Red Ted Art ~ Royal Baloo ~ Science Sparks ~ Scribble Doodle and Draw ~ Small Potatoes ~ Smiling like Sunshine ~ Sun Hats & Wellie Boots ~ Sun Scholars ~ Teach Preschool ~ The Educators’ Spin On It ~ The Fairy and The Frog ~ The Freckled Homeschooler ~ The Golden Gleam ~ The Imagination Tree ~ The Iowa Farmer’s Wife ~ The Outlaw Mom Blog ~ The Pleasantest Thing ~ This Reading Mama ~ Toddler Approved ~ Train Up a Child ~ True Aim ~ Two Big Two Little ~ What Do We Do All Day? ~ Connecting Family and Seoul
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