Ideas, outdoor activities, walks, play time and sports for kids to enjoy outdoors and nature.
Top author of children’s books and masses of ideas for kids’ activities. What’s the correlation? Kids picture books by British author Julia Donaldson. Here are some of the activity ideas for starters: making paper doll chains, designing masks, playing with sticks, painting with hands and performing in a play. All these kids indoors and outdoors
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Ice skating in the Hamptons? We live in an area known for its summer season and beaches, but when winter comes it’s time to put the skates on. And we don’t have to wait for a big freeze to turn local ponds into ice. Instead we head to the woods where summer tennis courts are
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A beach and kids would not seem to equal beachcombing Zen. But it did. It did indeed. Two buckets and a beachcomber’s guide were all we brought. Winter’s dusk headed our way as my children searched the shore of the bay. And soon listened to the whispers of the sea. And found the washed up remnants
My kids were just expecting to do some trick or treating and wear their spooky costumes but they experienced a full-blown wild day of celebrations when we had Halloween in the Hamptons. in 2012 we moved here from London in mid-October. Then woosh Hurricane Sandy swept in two days before All Hallow’s Eve. We emerged from a night
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Last weekend we went to the Great Pumpkin patch. At least that’s what I told my kids it was. “Every year Linus writes to the Great Pumpkin. And every year he waits in the most sincere pumpkin patch he can find, hoping to see his mysterious hero.” It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown by Charles
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Would you like to watch the sunset? I asked my children. School day over. Homework done. They thought I was going to take them into the garden and try to glimpse it through the trees. But I knew a place where they could see the sky blaze. A bay with a view to the West.
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