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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

Kids and senses – the sound of sunrise

Kids and senses – the …

October 14, 2011 by Caro&Co 9 Comments

Tick, tock goes the clock.  Children and time….

Tick, tock goes the clock. …

October 11, 2011 by Caro&Co 7 Comments

Simple pleasures…

Simple pleasures…

September 9, 2011 by Caro&Co 9 Comments

Gardening and plants … through a child’s eyes

Gardening and plants … …

August 4, 2011 by Caro&Co 6 Comments

1000 things to do with green tomatoes before you die…

1000 things to do with green …

April 28, 2011 by Caro&Co 1 Comment

Plants you can play with #4 – the magic of grasses

Plants you can play with #4 …

April 19, 2011 by Caro&Co 9 Comments

Sowing the seeds of future passions…

Sowing the seeds of future …

April 8, 2011 by Caro&Co 13 Comments

Nature as Teacher

Nature as Teacher

March 15, 2011 by Caro&Co 8 Comments

How a pudding made me read

How a pudding made me read

March 12, 2011 by Caro&Co 6 Comments

Beetles, Oreos and Ivory Curls – sharing small joys

Beetles, Oreos and Ivory Curls …

February 13, 2011 by Caro&Co 4 Comments

Go play! In the kitchen with kids

Go play! In the kitchen with kids

February 1, 2011 by Caro&Co 5 Comments

Colour play fun… but in the kitchen?

Colour play fun… but in …

September 22, 2010 by Caro&Co 2 Comments

Two children on love, imagination and outdoor magic

Two children on love, …

July 14, 2010 by Caro&Co 6 Comments

Gum Nut Play

Gum Nut Play

May 5, 2010 by Caro&Co 3 Comments

Plants kids can play with #3 A Seuss plant

Plants kids can play with #3 A …

March 26, 2010 by Caro&Co 8 Comments

Love me, love my conkers – Plants kids can play with #2

Love me, love my conkers …

March 15, 2010 by Caro&Co 8 Comments

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