Tag archive for ‘animals’
Nature Journal – Animal Tracking Basics for Family Nature Fun
Editor’s Note: Good morning! Jocie Ingram is here with some great information on animal tracking. Now you can hit the trails like a pro! Here she is:
Tracking wild animals is a skill that takes years of experience, but anyone can follow a set of footprints and learn to become a keen observer of nature.
A familiar [...]
Family & Freshness – Seaview Game Farm
Editor’s Note: This is a bittersweet day as Robyn Butler hangs up her OBE columnist pen when she moves into her new role as our advertising and marketing associate.
I have been inspired over the last half a year to spend way more time cruising the local farm scene. Eating local is as easy as it [...]
Family Craft – Your Animal Family Genealogy
As my belly gets bigger, there are TONS of questions about how families are made and our ongoing “Family Tree” project expands, I found myself a little stumped recently when working out age-appropriate ways to talk with our 3.5 year old about families and who goes where.
Traditional genealogy – packed full of research and hunts [...]
Book Review – Winter Tales of Survival & Hope
Ken was horrified that I’d brought a book like this home from the library. While I went for what was shaping up to be a long visit to the midwife on Tuesday, he and the tiny person broke into the latest stack of books and CDs that had come home with us from the library [...]
Nature Journal – Winter Tracks
Up earlier than anyone in the house this morning, the tiny person sprinted to the window, wrenched on the blinds and gasped that stunning “Oh my goodness” moment when she realized that yesterday’s snow hadn’t washed away.
Nearly impossible since we got nearly a foot – with a bit more on the way I’m told – [...]
Nature Journal – Gone Batty
It’s actually a bit true, our house has turned into a bat festival this year. It seems the tiny person can’t get enough of those creatures of the night. She has a million questions – do they bite? Will the drink your blood? Are there nice bats? Why do bats sleep upside down? Doesn’t it [...]
Family Card Games, BC Wildlife Style
I don’t mean to be a grouch about this, but what about Canada?
It is so amazingly tough to find cool learning tools and games for kids that are based on all of the amazing sites and experiences this great nation holds.
Canadians are a modest bunch. We figure the beauty speaks for itself.
But, I totally want [...]
The Farm – Everyone Loves Apples
Last Sunday we had a house full of old friends from Vancouver. The combo of energetic kiddos and sleepy adults meant we b-lined for the backyard, only to discover something fantastic – the apples are ready.
That may not mean much to anyone else. But, we weren’t even sure there would be any apples in the [...]
Book Review – Life on The Farm and Ferdinand
When I was a kid, I loved the loners.
The ones who stood out and moved away from the crowd always won my heart – especially if they found themselves stepping back in the name of a big, gentle heart.
Characters like Thumbelina, Aslan and Pippi Longstocking took their rightful places as staples in the imaginary world [...]
The Farm – Meet Our Farm Friend Popsicle
We’ve been waiting for this all year.
Spring gave us a taste of Summery good times. But, now it’s official.
Today is opening day at The Hands-On Farm over at The Filberg.
It’s something our daughter looks forward to every year – weeks on end of getting to know our farm friends and trying to talk me into [...]
Family Craft – Waldorf 3-D Butterflies
Our kiddo has never been into doing the girlie girl thing.
We instituted the no-pink, no-ruffles rule (applied loosely).
She loves bugs and snakes, Roberto Luongo and digging in the tide pools for creatures of all kinds.
But, lately, our house has gotten very fairy tale, very pastel, very soft and pretty thanks to the tiny person’s newfound [...]
The Paper-Bag Easter Basket & Easter Bunny
The other day I found myself cruising the aisles at an unnamed big-box store in complete awe of the piles of gear available for Easter festivities of the kid-related kind.
Unbelievable…really.
..and then I left, entirely empty-handed.
I was shocked at my lack of a purchase. My childhood Easters were filled with plastic eggs cracked open to discover [...]
Recycled Easter Crafts
Today’s comment challenge: What is your favourite part of Easter? What events do you try to hit or traditions do you have? Bonus points for craft and food ideas:) I’ve got a Super Scrapbooking Kit for one random commenter.
There are times, on those days when I have to fight through the gigantic pile of [...]
A Barn As A Recreation Asset
I cannot be happier to report that Comox Rec Program Director Patti Fletcher kicks off her monthly column today with talk about the Hands-On Farm.
This gem, which generally is open at The Filberg for eight glorious Summer-time weeks each year, has some big news. We all can jump in for some Spring farm fun (and [...]
Toilet Paper Roll Penguins
Ah, the Thursday after Christmas.
We are still very slow to get going around here, enjoying the leisure of snoozing at will, snacking on leftover turkey and trying out all of the new gear that Santa brought.
It seems like that should be plenty to do. But, there’s still a whiff of boredom in the air that [...]
Pine Cone Creatures
There is a pile of pine cones around our house that was becoming rather unwieldy.
Lately, the big thrill of a walk in the woods is the collection of anything cool that has fallen onto the trail – leaves from the trees, seed pods, acorns and one thing in particular – pine cones.
Knowing that eventually the [...]
Hot Spots – The Comox Hands-On Farm
I have this thing about farms.
There’s a connection to the land and a healthy respect for where our food comes from that makes me jump at any chance to hit anything even remotely farm-like.
So, when the Hands-On Farm at The Filberg opened a few weeks ago, we wasted no time in hoofing it right over [...]
Egg Carton Tulips and, well, Bats
Egg cartons are one of those things that I never know what to do with.
The styrofoam ones are just plain landfill rubbish, the cardboard ones just beg to be reused. But, no matter what, I always end up with a stack of them cluttering up a corner of the kitchen (we are major egg gobblers [...]
Grocery Sack Bunnies
I love this craft project – mostly because you are almost guaranteed to have everything you need already in your house, or can easily substitute something to make it all work.
It’s also fast, fun and a bit silly, offering all sorts of options for decorating, having fun and being creative with something as simple – [...]
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