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Foraging for Wild Rose Hips is a simple and enjoyable nature-based activity to do with your kids. And the wild rose hip tea you can make with them is delicious and chock full of Vitamin C!
Recently, we foraged for Wild Rose Hips to make tea. Read on to find out how to make Wild Rose Hip Tea and learn all about its benefits.
Creating a nature mandala is a sweet way of honoring the equinoxes. These types of traditions help your children embrace seasonal changes and learn more about the natural rhythms of life.
Every year, as a way to honor the seasons changing during the spring and fall equinoxes, my children and I create a nature mandala. Sweet traditions and rituals like this, help my kids transition from one season to the next. For the recent fall equinox, we made a nature mandala with flowers and wild fruit that represented summer and dry grasses and leaves that represented fall. Read on to find out how to make yours!
Making pressed flower ornaments is a sweet nature-based craft that will engage your child’s interest and provide a beautiful reminder of summer all year long.
The last day of summer is less than a week away! As our final salute to summer, my daughter and I wanted to do something special before the season turns to fall and we begin welcoming shorter days, cooler temperatures, and pumpkin flavored everything. She and I decided to hold on to one of our favorite parts of summer: the flowers. Using dried pressed flowers, we made delightful pressed flower ornaments to keep a little piece of summer all year long.
Making nature bracelets is a simple child-led multi-sensory outdoor activity that your children will really enjoy. Kids love creating art and exploring and being outside. This activity will get your child out in nature, exploring and using all their senses as they find items to decorate their bracelets with. 
There is so much to love about this nature activity! It’s simple, inexpensive, and gets kids outside. Because kids have so much fun doing it, they don’t even realize they’re busy learning! I’ve been wanting to try making nature bracelets with my kids ever since I saw it on Kaplan Early Learning Company‘s website.
Making sunflower crowns with your kids is a perfect farewell-to-summer activity! It’s sweet and easy and will surely stir your child’s imagination too!
Does anyone else associate sunflowers with the end of summer? There are so many amazing sunflowers popping up all around town right now and I just love them! They’re beautiful and colorful and good for the bees, but I also love them because they signal the end of a season. There’s just something special about the turning of the seasons, right?