Children enjoy watching seeds grow. If it isn’t warm enough to plant outdoors yet, plant seeds indoors in trays for transplanting later. Homegrown plants usually perform as well as or better than greenhouse plants. So what shall we plant? Some easy flowers to plant from seed are sunflowers, cosmos, zinnias, and marigolds to name a few. Or perhaps you might prefer to grow vegetables like beans, squash, tomatoes, cucumbers and melons. If you like to watch butterflies, plant some parsley with
When is the last time you explored the library with your children? Books are a great alternative to watching TV, and if shared with the family you can grow together and have greater control over the content than you can ever get with television. Take a trip to the library and share the books you loved as a child. Let them show you their favorites. If you don’t run out of time from all the sharing, you will want to look
During the week of April 11-18 I will be posting activities and ideas for TV Turnoff Week. I am posting them a week ahead of time to encourage planning. Some families will choose to turn off computers as well, making it all the more important to post these a week early. Enjoy your week of family fun. TV Turnoff Week – IDEAS
The words of a Negro Spiritual I learned as a youth go “Were you there when they crucified my Lord?” The song describes the cruelty Jesus encountered step by step when he was crucified. It isn’t easy to truly think about the crucifixion in detail. We like the cleaned up versions found in children’s storybooks better than reality. Somewhere in my recent activities it occurred to me that I needed to spend more time in the presence of that sacred moment when Jesus
