Watch 2 Kids In A Sandbox Video
Christel Malden
That journal entry is adorable. I love fruit and veggie gardens. Such a great lesson for kids about nature and where food comes from! Wish we had more room for one, but our sandbox is new and so exciting for the kiddos right now!
Hooray for watching things grow!! Planted sunflowers with my kinders, giddy joy when the sprouts popped up to reach for the sun!
We planted watermelon and cantaloupe last year, hoping for the best. Surprise! Up they came and took over! We grew watermelons in MN!!
See, gardens are magic!!! Enjoy!!!
If you have a little zucchini, like small pickle size, gently slip into liter bottle and it will grow in there! Big fun to see it grow in the bottle!!
I love it! When I was little my favorite thing to do was help my grams with her garden. Of course, come harvest time, I think I ate more than I actually collected. ? What a great use for a sandbox that is no longer being used as much as it once was.
Love your new garden and the organization of the string, etc.
The kids look like they are really into it and hey they may even want to eat some veggies:)
Have fun & keep a list of questions for next time you are at the garden center.
I agree with Julie, the pumpkin is going to keep growing like crazy! We accidentally grew pumpkins last year because of some errant seed from our compost. We let it grow to see what would happen and it totally took over, but it was so fun to watch the pumpkins grow and they just so happened to be ready for pumpkin carving in October. Good luck!
Spring, summer and fall, the sandbox was the hub for long periods of child-directed, uninterrupted play. There were troughs filled with water from the hose, shovels of all shapes and sizes, rakes, buckets, cups, bowls, trucks, plastic pitchers, pans, rolling pins and potato mashers.
I watched through the window while I worked in the kitchen, or sat in a chair next to the box, observed, soaked up the simple wonder of contentedly playing children and daydreamed. On summer evenings after dinner I relaxed there, often with a glass of wine.
I just got done reading that wonderful article about sandboxes Janet wrote. Those were some great playing memories even for me and for Mercedes and the boys! I remember wonderful long mornings with Charlotte and Sage and Kelsey!!
thanks for this article Janet, so descriptive that I felt I was at your house! we have lots of wooden pallets in our yard and now I am thinking that a sandbox is the perfect project for them. thanks for the motivation, my 3 year old will love it!
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Parents and administrators are clearing space indoors, pushing aside desks and learning supplies in favor of a quite messy sandbox. This Fukushima school just 60 km (37 mi) from the troubled plant procured sand from distant prefecture to ensure the kids could play contamination-free. Another school has turned a classroom into an indoor gym area where kids can run free.
Chances are you may have a pallet or some scrap wood kicking-around the yard - this can make an awesome Sand Pit for kids. This took about 2 hours, with paint drying overnight. And has relatively few steps, but although obvious to some, I've included a few tips and tricks I found along the way...
I was intending to do this bit myself, but my son insisted! Sceptical at first, I was quite impressed that my son was able to lift these boards, so I included them as a sort of 'proof' that kids can surprise you as to what they can do!
So I'm not going to call this 'anti splinter' paint, but the MSP really does a terrific job - and - is water based, so is safe for kids to use, with supervision (and I suggest gloves!). Leave to dry - while you make a lid.
Roanoke Parks and Recreation has a new experiential learning exhibit at the Mill Mountain Discovery Center. The Augmented Reality Sandbox provides a unique, hands-on, educational opportunity for kids of all ages. This exhibit is free to the public, utilizing augmented reality technology to allow users to watch their sandbox creations come to life in front of their eyes.
Augmented reality (AR) is a unique technology which projects a computer generated image onto real objects. In this case the image is projected on the surface of the sandbox, changing in real-time as the sand is shifted by users. By playing with the sand, you can observe the contour lines and colors of the mountains, valleys, rivers and lakes you create.
There are also lots of free things around your house that work well in the sand, too. Any container recently recycled after being cleaned out, paper towel rolls, plastic silverware, plastic cups, or old plastic containers without lids all can be used for sand play. You can easily and inexpensively round up an afternoon of fun in the sandbox.
As children, we master the art of making mud pies and ruining all of the little toys we fill up with mud. It never seems to fail, though, that our good time in the sandbox is short-lived when ants start crawling up our legs.
If you are a parent who lives in the western part of the United States, particularly California, keep an eye out for Argentine ants. These insects are sneaky and will bite for the fun of it. So, if you have a curious little one who gets into everything, especially a cool ant hill that looks irresistible to step on, watch out for these golden brown ants.
The use and exploration of data has not come over to our congregational supplemental schools yet, most likely because we have no larger cultural competitive phenomena against which we need to prove something to attract and retain our kids. Add to that a proprietary culture of competition among congregations to distinguish their schools and their content from each other, and the result is that we have a much diminished understanding or even awareness of the various educational patterns of our supplemental programs and their impact. Put another way, everyone is so busy trying to tweak the challah recipe that we cannot easily tell what a good challah is anymore much less what changes to the recipe actually do to the loaf. Strategic use of data allows us to intentionally improve the recipe, to document the effect of changes and make educated choices about additional changes in order to produce what we desire.
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