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A Brief Encounter
Our dog alerted me that there was a baby Robin in the house. I caught it and released it into the garden only for it to return the following day….looking weak and lost. I’m all alone in the world… Its...
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How To Actively Engage Children In Nature this Summer
If you are still looking for some fun and creative nature based activities to keep children happy, healthy and creative over the summer time, consider adding this inspiring Nature Art ebook to your...
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Nature Art: More Owl Fun
Creating with clay is a wonderful sensory activity for children of all ages (and adults). The Clay Owls are a big favourite with my Early Learning Educators Workshops and with the children in my...
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Why Outdoor Classrooms
Outdoor Classrooms enhance learning and fuel imaginations Animal Masks using Earth Paints: Circle of Life class 2013 Hands-on outdoor learning boosts physical activity, mental health, brain power and...
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The Essence of Who We Are
“This we know: All things are connected like the blood that unites us. We did not weave the web of life; We are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves”. - Chief Seattle...
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Nature was the stage for our Imagination
I am currently working on the Orange Moon’s Garden of Love website where I will be sharing childhood memories from kindred spirits whom I have had the pleasure of meeting on this magical and enchanting...
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Failing Helps Us Grow
Failing Helps Us Grow… Three years ago we took out a second mortgage against our home to invest in product for our business – then the recession hit and we lost our house and had our car repossessed....
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Ocean Hour Clean Up
Ocean Hour Clean Up Ocean Hour is the world’s first international weekly cleanup, leveraging social media and technology to crowdsource cleanups around the globe on a weekly basis. Every Saturday...
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Hopefully we can create a balance in education
Autumn is probably my most favourite of seasons. A magical time in nature, providing some of the most breath-taking displays of colour and the temperature allows for more adventurous play, not to...
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Friday Fairy Fun
“Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” - Hans Christian Anderson “Where words fail, music speaks.” Most of the people who will walk...
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Nature Art can bring every subject to Life
Infusing Nature Art into the school curriculum in a way that deepens learning and encourages critical thinking. Animal Masks using Earth Paints: Circle of Life Hands-on outdoor learning boosts...
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LONG LIVE THE PEN, PENCIL OR QUILL!
Drawing and writing with Goose Feathers Today I read an article entitled : “ Technology may script an end to the art of cursive writing” How Incredibly Sad!!! As more and more children learn their...
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Taking a moment or two…
Having spent most of the morning in front of my computer screen writing up an Outdoor Classroom Proposal for a local school, I was in need of a nature break. Although the sun wasn’t shinning, the glow...
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We are of the Earth
I was writing notes for my speech for the Nature Education Conference in New Zealand and it sparked a visual idea that I had to draw. It seeded the theme of what will ultimately become the main thread...
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Nature is ART
ART is Everywhere in Nature… Nature IS ART I adore colour. One of my favourite artists is the great French Post-Impressionist Gauguin because of the colour and nature in his art: vibrant, sensual and...
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In Their Element
Each Friday throughout summer, we run a nature art class from a local Organic farm. The farmer, Jim wood, an ex- Biology teacher and his beautiful wife Lorena love having children visit the working...
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Slow Things Down and Get Creative
Every Child is An Artist All children are artists and need to be given the opportunities to express themselves creatively. We all do, not just our children. Each and everyone of us is an artist....
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Mindfulness
Mindfulness & Magical Moments Jasmine, my teenage daughter was excited to show me a shell she had found on a walk with her father along the seashore, earlier in the morning. It was large and...
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Outdoor Spaces and Classrooms
OUTDOOR SPACES & CLASSROOMS When children and nature mix, something magical happens. I am fortunate to witness that magic every day in our outdoor classrooms. I believe the outdoor classroom,...
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Peace Is Within
“Peace Is Within” Orange Moon;Gentle Warrior by Marghanita Hughes We can visit the garden of peace at any given time, for Peace is within… My latest Illustration of my book character Orange Moon...
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