Nature Connections

Here's one you'll love...
Sherry at Living and Learning Now is hosting a monthly meeting of Nature Connections.... all Mamas are invited to share photos of their children enjoying nature.
It begins this Monday, January 31st... be sure to take your photos over the next few days, and link up there!

Book Give-away

Leslie at Home-Grown Love is having a great book give-away!

Run over to put your name in!

Book Give-away : The People Could Fly

Run over to Leslie's blog, Home-Grown Love for a chance to be entered in her book give-away:  The People Could Fly - American Black Folktales. 
You can enter until Monday!

Family Nature Club

At Ordinary Life Magic (Too.) we're hosting a virtual Family Nature Club - inspired from Children & Nature Awareness Month, from C&NN.
Please come over and link your nature activities - the more ideas we all have to celebrate and honor nature the better!

Shout Out: Children & Nature Awareness Month

Lisa of 5 Orange Potatoes pointed the way to the Children & Nature Network (thank goodness, because I had forgotten about it!), and encourages everyone to get outside and take photos every day in April!

Sunflower Houses Give-away

Acorn Pies is hosting a give-away of the book Sunflower Houses! I would love to win it!

Science Give-away

Wanted to let you know that we're having a give-away at Ordinary Life Magic (Too.) for a set of three science kits by The Young Scientist Club- Magnetism, Static Electricity, and Tornadoes, Clouds, and the Water Cycle.

All you have to do is leave a comment to be entered into the drawing on February 3rd.

Christmas Shows

I was lamenting that our vcr is broken - how are we going to get through the season without Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town, The Grinch, and Charlie Brown?
Found them!
You can watch full-screen versions, in their entirety, from this site. (With lots of other goodies like It's a Wonderful Life.) Find a second list with even more classics here.
Wonderful!

Mama4Earth Give-away

The Magic Onions is celebrating a new sponsor - Mama4Earth! Run over to leave a comment to be entered in the give-away for a beautiful handcrafted toy!

Southern Advent

Leeanne (Homemade Rainbows) shows beautifully how the holiday season can be decorated on the South side of the equator.

Monsters in December?

A while back I fell completely in love with my friend Sarah's (she is found at The Napping House) ingenious monsters. My only excuse for forgetting to tell you of it is that I must have been so dazzled that my mind didn't work for a while.
Really - they're amazing. Go see them.

And now, another friend Lisa (she is at 5 Orange Potatoes) has created more monsters out of unloved sweaters!

How cool is that!?

I can't help but wonder if this idea would work for little elves.....

Featured: Crocheting

Mama Om would like to show you how she and her son can work magic with a piece of yarn!
Go on over to see The Pace of Things.

Featured: A Gnome's Feast

The family at Magic Onions had an adventure that will inspire many of us.
Go see A Gnome's Feast!

Featured: Puppets

Amida from Journey Into Unschooling has these Puppets that are so fantastic!
They're not your ordinary puppets - they're made from Stuff Lying Around.
I can't wait to try this. Go see them!

Featured: Wild Violet Tea

Lisa from 5 Orange Potatoes has laid out a lovely Wild Violet Tea for you... go see!

Featured: Eatin' Dandelions

K of Frog Creek has cooked her family up a mess of dandelions.
Go on over to see how it was done.

Featured: Life-sized Field Guide

Amida from Journey Into Unschooling has posted an idea that she had about aiding her babes to recognize what is growing in their world-- beginning with their own backyard.
Go check out her Life-sized Field Guide.

Stellarium

I totally forgot about this until yesterday Abozzo reminded me.

Have you seen Stellarium? No?

"Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go."

Awesome.

Featured: Unschooling?

Dandelion Girl is offering prizes for contest winners who answer her question of "What does unschooling mean to you?" Go here to leave her your answer.

featured: Mouth Experiments

Homeschool Freebie of the Day has compiled a few Mouth Experiments - including the CocaCola dissolves metal experiment. The pdf will be available for download until early Monday morning.