After your children return from camp, you can continue their
green experience. Here are ten ways your family can connect
with nature now and throughout the years.
- Encourage your kids to be "nature sleuths" and
help them develop their own detective kit with magnifying glass,
paper, and pencil to record interesting things they see in
the backyard (e.g., insects, birds, leaves, spiderwebs, etc.).
- Have a sound-pollution free day at home and unplug! No radios,
televisions, CDs, computer games, iPods, etc.
- Plant a garden of flowers and/or vegetables in your yard
together as a family.
- Put up window bird feeders so you and your children can easily
watch the variety of birds that will visit.
- Take your kids on a field trip to the local nature center
and participate in an environmental education program together.
- Participate as a family in local clean-up projects, like
Adopt-A-Highway, park, or stream cleaning.
- Complain about the weather less; appreciate the outdoors
more.
- Put out weather instruments; thermometer, barometer, rain
gauge, etc., in your yard and monitor them together as a family.
- Catch run-off water from your roof in a rain barrel to water
flowers in your garden, teaching your children the value of
water conservation.
- Put up signs to remind family members to
turn off lights to conserve energy.
For more great "green" ideas for your family, visit
www.CampParents.org/nature. |
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