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June 10, 2012 Animal Fun / Festivals / Outdoor Education

Monarchs! Butterfly & Bird Festival, Coyote Hills, Fremont

This morning we attended the 13th Annual Butterfly and Bird Festival, held at Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont.  We’ve

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June 8, 2012 Contra Costa County / Hiking with Kids / Nature Exploration / Nature Programs / Nature Walks / Outdoor Education

Exploring the Ringtail Cat Trail, Las Trampas, Alamo

Another great Outdoor Discoveries outing!  Today, the naturalist took the kids up the Ringtail Cat Trail into Las Trampas Regional

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June 7, 2012 Astronomy / Camping

Solar Oven S’Mores

Yesterday afternoon, we attended a festival held by the East Bay Regional Park District at Shadow Cliffs in celebration of

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June 5, 2012 Nature Walks / Photos / Rainy Day / View from Home

Search for Snails

A favorite rainy day activity… head outside to look for snails!  My son calls them his “snail buddies”. What we

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May 29, 2012 Festivals / Gardens / Nature Exploration / Nature Programs / Outdoor Education / Photos

Nectar Garden Fun, Coyote Hills

Nectar Garden Fun Day As many of you already know, we’re in the process of creating a butterfly garden in

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May 24, 2012 Animal Fun / Hiking with Kids / Nature Programs / Nature Walks / Outdoor Education

Birding with Kids, Shadow Cliffs, Pleasanton

Since the week my son turned three, we’ve been attending the East Bay Regional Parks Outdoor Discoveries program, a naturalist-led

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May 21, 2012 Nature Play / Outdoor Education

“Awesome”… “Wow!”…

Quotes from my son while viewing the solar eclipse last evening at the Lawrence Hall of Science in the Berkeley

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May 20, 2012 Biology / Gardens / Outdoor Education

Learning About Bees: The Great Sunflower Project

We’ve been making progress in planting our butterfly garden, and now we’ve moved onto the next phase… bees! I’ve been

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May 19, 2012 Farmer's Markets / Outdoor Education

The Kora… Outdoor Music at the Farmer’s Market

We try to attend at least one of our many local farmer’s market weekly. While our primary reason for a

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May 16, 2012 Art Fun / At Home / Paleontology / Quick Activities / Treasure Hunting

Paleontology Play! Dinosaur Digging

We’ve been staying home a lot this past week while my son’s been sick with a cold. One afternoon, he

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May 11, 2012 Educational Activities / Nature Play

Spring Nature Activities!

I’m always on the lookout for fun things to do with my son. Today I came across the Spring 2012

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May 10, 2012 Art Fun / Photos

Outdoor Art Recommendation: Finger Painting

One of these days, I’ll remember that finger painting really should be done outside….

May 7, 2012 At Home / Outdoor Education

Gardening with Grandpa

Over the weekend, we went to Sacramento to help my parents plant their vegetable garden.  The garden has historically been

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May 5, 2012 Animal Fun / At Home / Outdoor Education

Creating our Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Step Four, Homes for Wildlife

We’re on the final step of creating our backyard wildlife habitat! For those of you who don’t already know, we’re

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May 2, 2012 Animal Fun / At Home / Outdoor Education

Creating our Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Step Three, Create Cover

Today was day three of working towards making our backyard into a Certified Wildlife Habitat, per the guidelines provided by

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May 1, 2012 Animal Fun / At Home / Outdoor Education

Creating Our Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Step Two, Supply Water

For those of you who are following us, you know that yesterday my son and I started to create a

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April 30, 2012 Animal Fun / At Home / Outdoor Education

Creating Our Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Step One, Provide Food

Today my son and I began working towards making our backyard into a Certified Wildlife Habitat, per the guidelines provided

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April 28, 2012 Cycling with Kids / Nature Walks / Parks

Walk, Run, Bike, Scooter….Alamo Creek Trail, Dublin

I found the Alamo Creek Trail in the center of Dublin when my son was about four months old, and

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April 23, 2012 Animal Fun / Nature Exploration / Nature Play / Nature Walks

Look for Lizards

As the weather has been warming up, we’ve been seeing more and more lizards on our walks.  I believe these

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April 22, 2012 At Home / Nature Walks

Take a Trash Collecting Walk

To celebrate Earth Day today, my son asked if we could walk around our neighborhood and collect trash. He’s been

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April 18, 2012 Animal Fun / Museums / Outdoor Education / Treasure Hunting

Amazing Animals Scavenger Hunt, Oakland Zoo

We’ve had a membership to the Oakland Zoo for over three years now.  We visit frequently, as it is a

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April 16, 2012 At Home / At the Park / Hiking with Kids / Nature Walks / Outdoor Education / Quick Activities

Take a “Signs of Spring” Walk

The wildflowers are starting to bloom, new leaves are growing on the tips of branches, gardens are beginning to sprout… 

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April 12, 2012 Festivals / Outdoor Education

This Saturday… Sunol Wildflower Festival!

One of our favorite Bay Area festivals, the Sunol Wildflower Festival, is being held this Saturday, April 14th.  We attended

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April 11, 2012 Nature Exploration / Outdoor Education / Treasure Hunting

Urbia Adventure # 1: Treasure in the Hills of San Francisco

Aargh, Batman… there’s treasure in yonder hills!  OK, so pirate speak and Batman don’t really go together, but I can’t

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April 5, 2012 Art Fun

Outdoor Art: String Painting

We did this art activity at the Chabot Space Center‘s Tyke Explorer class last week.  When I asked my son

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April 4, 2012 Nature Exploration / Nature Play / Outdoor Education / Treasure Hunting

Urbia Adventures: Exploring Nature in San Francisco

A friend recently told me about some fun-looking educational treasure hunting booklets created and sold through the Urbia Adventure League.

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March 28, 2012 Nature Play / Outdoor Education / Treasure Hunting

Letterboxing: The Search for the Gingerbread Man

I’m happy to report that our first letterboxing experience was (mostly) a success.  For our first outing, I wanted to

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March 25, 2012 Family Nature Tips / Nature Play / Treasure Hunting

Letterboxing: Getting Ready for the Hunt

Letterboxing has been around forever (well, at least, a few hundred years), but I just learned about it within the

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March 18, 2012 Family Nature Tips / Hiking with Kids / Nature Programs / Nature Walks / Outdoor Education

Stop, Look, Listen, Observe

This afternoon we attended a family nature walk, a free naturalist-led event held in the Tilden Nature Area in the

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March 12, 2012 Art Fun / Quick Activities

Outdoor Art: Sidewalk Chalk Drawing

For a quick, easy outdoor activity, I keep a bag of sidewalk chalk on our front porch.  We were home

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