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Imagination

A couple of feathers stuck in their hair and your child is instantly Geronimo or Pocahontas.

Long clusters of berries make beautiful earrings and a cicada skin is the perfect brooch.

Mother Nature provides the most diverse and fabulous “props box” for young children. Nearly every object found outside can become something special.

Encourage your child to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane and enchantment in the everyday.

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
Carl Sagan

Are you an elastic parent?

Are you an elastic parent?

October 15, 2012 by Caro&Co 10 Comments

Mystery sound #1. Can you guess what it is?

Mystery sound #1. Can you …

September 28, 2012 by Caro&Co 4 Comments

Plants you can play with #5 – the crafty Casuarina

Plants you can play with #5 …

September 11, 2012 by Caro&Co 2 Comments

How to spice things up a little in the garden….

How to spice things up a …

September 6, 2012 by Caro&Co 1 Comment

Staying connected when you’re not….

Staying connected when …

August 17, 2012 by Caro&Co 6 Comments

Hi ho, Hi ho, it’s off to the Hoist I go…

Hi ho, Hi ho, it’s off …

June 21, 2012 by Caro&Co 4 Comments

When kids, dogs and a fertile imagination collide

When kids, dogs and a fertile …

May 30, 2012 by Caro&Co 4 Comments

What autumn leaves and Gina Rinehart have in common…

What autumn leaves and Gina …

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The wonder of self or, why falling out of trees is good

The wonder of self or, why …

May 10, 2012 by Caro&Co 6 Comments

Helping kids find the ‘simple’ in outdoors

Helping kids find the …

April 27, 2012 by Caro&Co 5 Comments

Falling in love with and headlong into, autumn

Falling in love with and …

April 4, 2012 by Caro&Co 2 Comments

Letters, Jack Frost and Facebook using a stamp…

Letters, Jack Frost and …

February 10, 2012 by Caro&Co 6 Comments

Nature as a ‘device’

Nature as a ‘device’

January 31, 2012 by Caro&Co 8 Comments

Departing childhood – what will your child pack?

Departing childhood – …

January 13, 2012 by Caro&Co 16 Comments

Believers or not, they’ll still eat the cake thanks…

Believers or not, …

December 1, 2011 by Caro&Co 24 Comments

You want me to make and eat what?!

You want me to make and eat what?!

November 3, 2011 by Caro&Co 3 Comments

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