Saffron buns / Lucia buns
Every year around Christmas time we will celebrate Santa Lucia, a Scandinanavian tradition. On the morning of the 13th of December, kids will dress...
Gift Guide to Polar Bear Kids
Our simple Holiday gift guide for outdoor kids. A little more in-depth gift guide is needed if you are really serious about your outdoor...
Make Christmas cookies for the birds
We set up our birdfeeder for the winter last Friday.The girls painted and helped set-up our squirrel proof birdfeeder and we discovered a mourning...
Polar Bear Kids Rules :How to encourage outdoor play for kids
Originally written in 2011 and updated in January 2021.10 years ago my husband wrote a very funny post about Polar Bear Moms as a response...
Outdoor play Christmas
Need some ideas for Christmas ? Check out our outdoor play Christmas
Make an Advent Calendar with nature this year
Holiday ice art
Nature Holidays craft...
Happy Valentine’s Day!
You know, I was going to share with you this wonderful snowman family that we decorated with colored snow hearts for Valentine’s Day. They have...
Ice art
By Andrea LeDuc
Its a freezing cold day with warnings that children should only be outside for 10 -30 minutes. What to do? Make some...
Paint a snow angel
We have been blessed with a little snow in Toronto this last week. We haven’t been getting great amount of accumulation, but I am...
Winter thermos picnic
This article was first published in 2013 and edited and updated in January 2021 We live in a big city and we often are...
Forcing spring
Living in a city, I do not have a big backyard, but I’m lucky to have a pussy willow tree in my backyard. We...
