A Ducker’s Adventures story After church today we peeked in the bluebird house. Here is me peeking in the hole but I couldn’t see much that way. I tried to peek in the hole but it was too dark to see inside. Mrs. Green said she would open the front of the birdhouse so we could see inside. Oh look! There are three baby birds in the nest. Two are facing us and the third is facing the back
Take your children for a nature walk. Walking is great exercise, and keeping up a quick pace is healthy, but don’t walk so fast you miss everything nature has to offer. Every now and then slow down and look closely at the signs of spring. Explore these signs with your child. Maybe you will find something you had never noticed before. Do you know if your child will need a leaf collection any time soon for school? I remember looking for
These boats were made with homemade play dough. The bird bath served as our puddle and the wend blew the boats around. I ate a half of an avocado out of it’s shell with a spoon. When I was finished eating it, the shell made me think of a little toy sailboat. Some clay, purchased or homemade**, (or maybe just some chewed bubblegum) could be pressed into the bottom of the shell to weight it so it wouldn’t tip over
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
Spring comes early in South Carolina, and this year is no exception. It’s so pleasant we can enjoy the outdoors in our shirtsleeves. The excitement is contagious, especially with children who have been in the classroom all day wishing they could go outside. Capture the opportunity to share the moment with them by looking for signs of spring. The earliest sign my beekeeper-husband notices is the maple trees in bloom. This is one of the first nectar flows for the honeybees. I