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New ideas for women who love working out in the garden

April 19, 2022 by Catherine Leave a Comment

Collaborative post If you love getting outside to do some exercise, then this blog post is for you. There’s nothing better than breathing in the fresh air and making the most of the space that your garden offers you, but the same old routine can get boring pretty quickly. Fortunately, there are lots of ways you can switch up your back garden workout routine – and this post has some great ideas for you. If you do want to take your fitness ...

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Filed Under: Exploring Nature Tagged With: exercise, fitness, Garden, Health, Nature, Yoga

20 Earth Day activities for kids

April 6, 2022 by Catherine 1 Comment

Are you looking for some fun ways to celebrate Earth Day?  There are lots of simple ideas in this list of twenty Earth Day activities for kids. What is Earth Day about? Earth Day started in the USA in 1970.  Earth Day is celebrated on April 22nd around the world every year. Earth Day is all about taking time to focus on our planet and what we can do to take care of it.  It’s the perfect prompt to encourage kids to think ...

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Filed Under: Exploring Nature Tagged With: A Year of Nature Craft & Play, Children, earth day, Eco-friendly, Gardening with children, Nature, Nature Craft, nature play, Outdoor Play, Outdoors

“Tech Cleanse” Your Life: 3 Nature Practices for Digital Detox

March 21, 2022 by Catherine Leave a Comment

AD Most of us spend our days with screens constantly tugging at our attention. If you’re old enough, you can probably remember spending hours finding shapes in clouds, or sitting with a sunset until the light shifted through every colour into night. Pursuits like this can feel pretty alien when we're caught up in today’s entertainment platforms, but it's exactly this type of slow-time which can help us regain focus, joy, relaxation, and ...

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Filed Under: Exploring Nature Tagged With: digital detox, gardening, gardening for wellbeing, mental health, Mindfulness, Nature, Screen time, Technology, water feature, Wellbeing

Easter nature crafts: four easy easter crafts for kids

March 8, 2022 by Catherine 1 Comment

Are you searching for some fun Easter crafts?  These Easter nature crafts will help little ones to explore nature and create some lovely Easter decorations and games. This is such a fantastic time of year to craft and play with nature.  Everything is growing, there’s loads of colours and textures to experience, and we’re heading into longer days and warmer weather.  Add in the fact that the kids are usually off school over ...

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15 fun spring nature crafts for kids and nature play ideas

March 4, 2022 by Catherine Leave a Comment

How to make your own twig wrapped flower pots - a simple and fun nature activity for children, great for a homemade mother's day gift!

Are you looking for some spring nature play ideas?  These lovely spring nature crafts for kids are perfect for embracing the season and getting little ones engaged with the natural world. Spring is such a fantastic season to craft with nature and enjoy nature play.  Plants, flowers and trees are bursting into life, wildlife is nesting and rearing young, the weather is (hopefully!) getting warmer, and the days are longer.  All of ...

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Filed Under: Craft Tagged With: art, craft, crafting, Family Fun, Gardening with children, Kids craft, Nature, Nature Craft, nature play, Outdoor Play, Outdoors, Spring

Mother’s Day nature crafts for kids

February 23, 2022 by Catherine Leave a Comment

nature craft suncatcher

Are you looking for some fun Mother’s Day crafts that the kids can make?  These lovely Mother’s Day nature crafts are all easy, low cost and eco friendly. Crafting with natural materials is so enjoyable for kids.  They can have an exciting time exploring nature to find their craft supplies (getting their daily dose of exercise and daylight in the process), then turn their treasures into a beautiful, unique craft at home. Nature ...

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Filed Under: Craft Tagged With: A Year of Nature Craft & Play, Children, craft, crafting, Family Fun, Kids craft, Mother's Day, Nature, Nature Craft, nature gifts, nature play

100 quotes about sunflowers and sunflower captions

February 4, 2022 by Catherine Leave a Comment

Are you in need of some sunny floral inspiration?  Look no further than this list of one hundred fantastic quotes about sunflowers and sunflower captions for instagram. The best quotes about sunflowers With their show stopping flowers and impressive size, it’s no wonder that these iconic blooms have inspired a lot of sunflower quotes and sunflower sayings. I’ve rounded up one hundred beautiful quotes about sunflowers all in one ...

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Filed Under: Exploring Nature Tagged With: flower captions, flower quotes, flower sayings, Flowers, Inspiration, instagram, Nature, nature captions, nature quotes, nature sayings, quotes, sunflower captions, sunflower quotes, Sunflowers

Heart nature crafts for Valentine’s Day

January 25, 2022 by Catherine Leave a Comment

Valentine's Day is all about celebrating love, so why not get the kids busy with some fun heart nature crafts to share their love of all things nature? Making crafts from nature is a low cost, accessible and eco-friendly way to spend some time together as a family. And of course, it's also a brilliant opportunity to help children learn about our amazing natural world and why it's so important to take care of it. Fun Valentine's Day nature ...

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Filed Under: Craft Tagged With: A Year of Nature Craft & Play, craft, crafting, Family Fun, Kids craft, Nature, Nature Craft, nature gifts, nature play, Valentine's Day

100 puns about birds and bird jokes to make you twitter

January 13, 2022 by Catherine Leave a Comment

Are you looking for family-friendly jokes and puns with a feathered theme?  This bumper list of one hundred puns about birds and bird jokes has all you need to get everyone smiling. As well as being good for a giggle, these funny bird puns and jokes about birds make perfect bird captions for instagram and social media (make sure you check out my nature hashtags copy and paste lists to save time there too).  Birds puns and birds jokes ...

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Filed Under: Exploring Nature Tagged With: bird jokes, bird puns, Birds, Children, Family Fun, funny, jokes, Kids, Nature, puns, Wild birds

100 beautiful flower quotes & flower captions for instagram

January 6, 2022 by Catherine Leave a Comment

Are you searching for the best flower quotes and flower captions?  This list has over one hundred beautiful flower sayings and inspirational floral quotes to lift your mood and put a smile on your face. The power of flowers Flowers just make life better, don’t they? We use them to convey messages of love and support, we enjoy their beauty and their fragrance, and growing them in our gardens helps us to embrace nature and can even ...

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Filed Under: Exploring Nature Tagged With: flower captions, flower quotes, flower sayings, Flowers, Inspiration, instagram, Nature, nature captions, nature quotes, nature sayings, quotes, Wildflowers

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