Single Mom, Outside with Toddlers

When I went on to Green Hour’s ‘Nature Finder’ I found, not nature, but the reasonable facimile of it contained with in our local Natural Sciences Museum.  Perfect, it is much too cold today to venture blindly out in to the great out doors, and hopefully we will learn a little more about the new environments we will be visiting.

It was wonderful, there were so many things there that I hadn’t even considered.  There was one floor dedicated to arthropods, and my daughter was fascinated, I almost couldn’t get her to leave.  Luckily, there was an observatory to the next floor that showed a Dinosaur exhibit and that allowed us a smooth transition to the next level.  I think, however, that the second floor with it’s recreation of different environments and indoor water fall was my favorite.  I started to just itch to see it all in real life, not the fake forest in the museum, but a real hawk and a real waterfall, and a real stone to identify.

So, I have come up with a list of things to do with the kids out side.

Camping, obviously this is one we are hoping to do alot.

Bird Watching.

Hiking

Canoeing/Boating

Splunking (roaming in caves)

Rock Hounding

Constellation Gazing

Ok, it’s not the best list, but it’s a start, there has to be at least a few months worth of activities there for us to try…..so, on the next warm weekend I think the little ones and I will roll on out to the local park and go for a hike.  I am even trying to figure out a way that my daughter can keep a nature journal, maybe she could draw her entries, since she can’t write.

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