Tween Reads from Maddy Erickson – Savvy by Ingrid Law

Editor’s Note: Good Afternoon. If you missed the discussion on Zoe Whittall’s novel Holding Still For As Long As Possible, you can catch it HERE.
Now, I’m excited to introduce Maddy Erickson as the newest addition to the crew of writers here at Our Big Earth. Maddy – as well as her reviewing co-hort Madeline McNamee [...]

Kids In The Arts – Exploration Art Camp

Today I had a chat with my friend Heili Garcia. She’s got this fun, fantastic Summer art adventure going again this year and can’t wait to share her stories about art boot camp.
Exploration Art Camp began up on Mt. Washington in 1990 and the original facilitators were Heili, Lea Mann and Penny MacCullough (all of [...]

Handmade Paper Bracelets

Our daughter isn’t generally what you’d think of as traditionally girlie.
She serves tea to her monsters while having a growling competition with them, has a distinct aversion to a life that doesn’t involve dirt, thinks dolls are silly (she prefers the “human kind” of babies) and is spending next week learning the ins and outs [...]

On The Rocks climbing gym

Derek Kwan is here today with the scoop on a cool, relatively new climbing gym in Campbell River.
I very much appreciate Derek’s contributions to the site, not only for his plainly Dad perspective, but also for offering up some great scores in the fun locales department.
Without further delay, here’s Derek:

A friend of mine has proclaimed [...]

The LINC Youth Centre

This ain’t your mama’s indoor skate park.
For the longest time, I have been under the impression that the nondescript, steel-sided building across the street from the Lewis Centre was nothing more than a place for boarders to skate.
The indoor skate park, considered premiere in design and build, is seriously cool.
But, the LINC Youth Centre is [...]

Teaching Kids Financial Literacy

After a few weeks on the island, my parents are heading back East today and we’re hitting the road to Victoria pretty quick this morning.
We’ve all had such a great time just hanging out and soaking up being a family, it’s a bit of a blue day around here.
So, I thought I’d pull out an [...]