Celebrate spring with this flower activity

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Beautiful blooms

Celebrate spring in style with this fun flower activity.

Book – All new square foot gardening

All New Square Foot Gardening (Paperback)

by Mel Bartholomew

…anyone, anywhere can enjoy a Square Foot garden. Children, adults with limited mobility, even complete novices can achieve spectacular results. I’ve rarely seen a more reader-friendly book! It comes complete with layout pages, very consise planting guides, even planting time tables for your area and the amount of time you can store your seeds! If you have never gardened before or started a garden that eventually left you frustrated, then this is the book for you! I just think that you should check your area for agricultural grade vermiculite before you buy the book. But once that little snafu is over, you are going to be amazed at how brilliant and easy this book makes successful gardening. I highly recommend this method for busy people and parents like myself. It is wonderfully easy to maintain, makes loads of produce, and looks very attractive. Two green thumbs way, way up.

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Teaching Kids About Water Issues

This Sunday, March 22, is World Water Day, an international observance that grew out of the 1992 U.N. Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The occasion has since spawned World Water Week, which this year is from March 22 to 28.

Tomorrow (Mar. 20), Dream Village, a website that educates kids about social, economic, and environmental issues, is releasing Saved by the Well. Dream Village was formed last fall after its founders won a $10,000 grant to launch a series of socially responsible children’s books.

Saved by the Well, their debut release, told from a child’s perspective with color illustrations, is the story of a town in Mozambique that benefits from the Play Pump water system, a merry-go-round water pump powered by children’s play. The Play Pump was developed by GlobalGiving, an organization that connects donors with community-based projects worldwide.

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A Green Social Networking Site for Teens

Call it the green Facebook.

There’s a new social networking site where environmentally minded teens looking for a place to chat, share ideas, and learn about careers and university programs can now visit.

Sponsored by the Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF), the Weather Channel, and Philippe Cousteau, grandson of legendary sea-explorer Jacques Yves Cousteau, the recently launched Planet-connect.org is a site designed for teens by teens.

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Great skipping rhymes

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Arm Wrestling 101 – Basic Moves and Techniques

 There are many different moves in arm wrestling but the three basic techniques are the Hook, the Toproll and the Press.

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Battleship game

 
 Play the original Battleship game online… Click on the picture

Lesson plans and activities for kids on “New Year”

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