14 May
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May 19th Pond Dippin’ at Spring Lake Park

Posted By: Jen in Events, Spring    

  • Little Traverse Conservancy will offer pond dippin' for kids of all ages.
  • 10 am - 11:30 pm, Saturday, May 19th
  • Spring Lake Park, Petoskey, on M-119
  • Free!
  • Pre-registration required.  Call (231)347-0991  

10 Apr
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10 lessons from 10 years adventuring with kids

Posted By: Jen in Articles    

Have you and your kids had an adventure today? This week? This month? This year? No? Well it's easier to put the TV on isn’t it? It’s less hassle to go shopping. The kids are busy and the adults need some down-time. What’s so great about doing things together anyway?
But just pause for just a minute and remember all those promises you made back when the house was a giant...

5 Apr
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Let Your Kids Get Dirty! – it’s good for them!

Posted By: Jen in Articles    
2 Apr
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Passport to Adventure

Posted By: gko-admin in Activities, Big Feature, Educators, Fall, Feature, GKO, Spring, Summer, Winter    

Passport to Adventure encourages children and their families to get outdoors and explore, while promoting local events, programs, and nearby natural destinations. (more...)

19 Feb
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See “Mother Nature’s Child” on PBS, Sunday, February 19th at 4pm

Posted By: Jen in Educators, Videos    

http://www.mothernaturesmovie.com/ Mother Nature’s Child explores nature’s powerful role in children’s health and development through the experience of toddlers, children in middle childhood and adolescents. The film marks a moment in time when a living generation can still recall childhoods of free play outdoors; this will not be true for most children growing up today....

30 Jan
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Classroom Contest for National Kids to Parks Day on May 19, 2012

Posted By: Jen in Activities, Articles, Educators, Events, News, Spring    

National Kids to Parks Day Set for May 19, 2012

 ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Classroom Contest Encourages Kids to Plan New & Exciting Ways to Explore Outdoors
Children, parents and teachers are gearing up for this year's National Kids to Parks Day (KTP), a nation-wide day of outdoor play organized by National Park Trust (NPT) in...

2 Jan
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Playing in the mud is okay at HumaNature School in Traverse City

Posted By: Jen in Articles, Educators, News    

Education in the Outdoors
 
 
 

Playing in the mud is okay at HumaNature School

Listen closely to the birds in the forest canopy, taste the edible roots and feel the wind in your hair. This is part of a primary satisfaction – the moments we experience first-hand, inaccessible by television, recollections in a magazine or Facebook...

29 Dec
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Kids need adventure. Parent need to teach them how.

Posted By: Jen in Articles, News    

Tuesday, 6 December 2011

Kids need adventure. Parents need to teach them how.

 
Kids want adventure. Parents think it's a good thing. So why doesn't it happen more?  
Half of kids have never camped out? According to this poll of 1500 parents and 1103 kids in the UK, over half of children have never camped out, not even in their back...