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October 1, 2013 Nature Play

Nature Time: Redwood Bike Ride

Fun outing with my Nature Time! playgroup! Redwood Regional Park, Oakland Photos taken October 28th, 2013

September 18, 2013 Children in Nature / Hiking with Kids / Monterey / Monterey County / Nature Exploration / Nature Play

Natural Slide: Beautiful View

I can’t imagine a climbing log with a better view! On the Cypress Grove Trail… a 0.75 loop trail, perfect

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May 8, 2013 Family Nature Tips / Nature Play

Connecting Kids With Nature: How Grandparents Can Help

Are you a grandparent who would like to help connect your grandchild(ren) with the natural world?  Check out these great

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April 22, 2013 Art Fun / Beaches / Festivals / Nature Play

Create-With-Nature Earth Day Celebration: Beach Labyrinth

Photos of the labyrinth created in the sand, from the Create-With-Nature Earth Day Celebration, 2013, at Stinson Beach, California.  Usually,

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December 31, 2012 Children in Nature / Nature Play / Weekly Photo Challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures

Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures

October 20, 2012 Contra Costa County / Hiking with Kids / Nature Exploration / Nature Play / Parks / Silent Saturday

Silent Saturday: Trail Through Time, Rock City, Mount Diablo

Photos from a hike in Mount Diablo State Park earlier this week with my Nature Time playgroup. We hiked a

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October 7, 2012 Art Fun / Nature Play

Rock Art

Take a child into nature where there are rocks and watch what the child does.  Either the child will pick

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September 26, 2012 Biology / Nature Play / Nature Walks

Going on a Bug Hunt

While my husband was warming up for his bike race on Saturday (see post here… Cyclo-Cross, Monterey Style), my son

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September 11, 2012 At the Park / Nature Play

Go Climb a Tree

We’re lucky to have a couple parks nearby that have great trees for climbing.  The kids are drawn as much

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August 27, 2012 Cycling with Kids / Nature Play

Family Time: A Ride in the Redwoods

The highlight of the weekend for my son?  A Sunday afternoon bike ride with his dad…. While my husband and

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August 5, 2012 Art Fun / Gardens / Nature Play

Create With Nature Zone, Blake Garden, Kensington

Take a child out into nature, and what are they naturally drawn to play with?  It’s pretty universal… sticks and

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August 2, 2012 Beaches / Nature Play / Water Play

Swim in a Lake!

The weather is heating up here in the San Francisco East Bay.  Take a break from the local swimming pool,

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July 18, 2012 Art Fun / Nature Exploration / Nature Play

Create-With-Nature Pathway

While visiting Redwood Regional Park in Oakland yesterday morning, I made a fun discovery. We were meeting friends for some

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July 11, 2012 At the Park / Nature Play / Parks

Hide and Seek!

What child could resist playing hide and seek in this redwood forest? Can you find them? At Roberts Regional Park,

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July 3, 2012 Nature Play

Nature Play… Sticks and Pine Cones

A child can be absorbed for hours, simply playing in the forest with sticks and pine cones…

July 1, 2012 Art Fun / Family Nature Tips / Nature Play

Kids ‘n Cameras: Five Tips for Introducing Children to Photography

Just in the past few months, my son has become interested in cameras and photography.  Both my husband and I

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June 12, 2012 Benefits of Outdoor Play / Nature Play / View from Home

My Childhood Play… My Love of Nature

This is the backyard of my childhood home.  These are the places I played as a child, building forts, climbing

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First Time Camping with Kids? 5 Tips!

It’s that time of year when parents with young children are beginning to plan that very first camp trip with

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May 30, 2012 Hiking with Kids / Nature Exploration / Nature Play

Hiking and Playing, Coyote Hills, Fremont

If you read my post yesterday, you know we attended the Nectar Garden Fun Day at Coyote Hills Regional Park

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May 27, 2012 Alameda County / Hiking with Kids / Nature Exploration / Nature Play

Nature Time! Hike, Dublin Hills

We kicked off our Memorial Day weekend with a great hike with friends from our Nature Time! playgroup.  The kids

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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 18, 2012 Hiking with Kids / Nature Exploration / Nature Play

Fossils, Flowers, and Fun! Dublin Hills

I thought we’d head to a museum today, but my son asked if we could go hiking instead.  Great!  When

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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 11, 2012 Hiking with Kids / Nature Exploration / Nature Play / Parks

Nature Play, Roberts Regional Park, Oakland

One of our favorite parks for play is Roberts Regional Park in the Oakland Hills.  This park, nestled in the

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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 21, 2012 Contra Costa County / Hiking with Kids / Nature Play

Family Hike, Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve, Oakland

After several days stuck home due to sickness, my husband, son, and I headed out today for a short hike

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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 31, 2012 Alameda County / Hiking with Kids / Nature Exploration / Nature Play

Nature Walk, Redwood Regional Park, Oakland

My favorite spot in the San Francisco East Bay to take kids for a nature walk is Redwood Regional Park,

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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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