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SavvyPicks: Great "Green" Activities
Your clever little ones already figured out that the best fun of all is made with the stuff you have on hand. Or outside the front door. Or pretty much anywhere you look. Here are some great ideas from our Savvy Source activities encyclopedia to remind you, too: Making something cool out of crayon nubs Cleaning up your toys, on a cosmic level Like the Lorax, speaking for (and about) the
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Tuesday is Earth Day (and every day should be...)
We pride ourselves on doing, not fretting. We like being part of the solution. Sure, we worry -- but when we worry, we try to remind ourselves to act. Help. Think it out. Make a good thing happen. Parenting preschoolers is challenging. Saving the Earth is challenging. Luckily, we thrive on challenges. But yikes! It seems this is one of those times when you just need to get your hands
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Realistic Mom: We Simply Cannot Live Without Ziploc Bags
We've tried. We've really tried. We've cut down on our plastic wrap usage dramatically by covering things in the microwave only when absolutely necessary -- and then, we use a plate or an (unbleached, recycled) paper towel instead. The kiddos use regular ceramic plates and cups, and it's nowhere near the disaster we feared when we first handed our littlest ones the "real stuff." We
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Little Ones (and Parents!) Get Wiser as They Get Older
How about using a birthday as the occasion to put into practice all that we resolved to do (and to be) on Earth Day? Preschoolers are obsessed with birthdays, and family social calendars are inundated with them. Plus, we love the rhyme. Earth Day. Birthday. We can't stop saying it. Join us as we strive to mark these big occasions with a little soul. Gifts that give back. Party supplies
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Savvy-est "Green" Parenting Resources
Ah, the tidyness of a nice, short list on Being Savvy's List Day (every Tuesday). Go here, read this, sign up, save the world, get on with it. Got it? Our ideas for absolute Savvy-est eco-friendly parenting resources are: The NRDC's brilliant website -- Simple Steps A compendium of everything you need to know -- Easy Green Living book The greatest solution ever -- a freebie
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SavvyPicks: Seriously Cool Science Activities
When we think about it, one of the things that we love best about the lifelong project of trying to be kinder to our world is that it brings together opposites, while making sense of both of them. (Maybe it's too much time with our preschoolers' opposites books and puzzles and questions, but we love this stuff.) The big/little idea. The fact that the same little person who is the cause
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Savvy Spotlight: Taro Gomi
Thinking about a seamless way that art comments on life -- and life begets art -- makes us think of Taro Gomi, an author and illustrator about whom we are especially fond here at the The Savvy Source. In case you've missed some of his gems, let us bring you some faves: My Friends -- a truly lovely book about all the different kinds of friends one needs in this world. It makes an especially
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Illustrators That We Simply Adore
As Tuesday (List Day) rolls around once more, we offer you a list of some our favorite children's book illustrators. Without further ado: Beatrix Potter . She set the standard, reinvented the art, and gave us all of those naughty, beautiful bunnies and kittens , hedgehogs , mice , and more. Ernest H. Shepard . He brought that Silly Old Pooh Bear and friends to life with the simplest of
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Fun Around Every Corner: This Week on Being Savvy Local 11/14/08
Welcome to our newest Savvy Source feature: Fun Around Every Corner highlighting the best outings, excursions, and activities from around the United States and Canada. Whether planning a trip or staying home, our 40 (and growing!) City Editors beat the pavement (with kids in tow!) to bring you the most educational and enriching activities their cities have to offer. If
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Why and How to Teach Preschoolers (Pre-) Math?
Babies are born with mathematical minds. Remember your toddler's early cries of "more, more, more!"? And take notice of your preschooler's eagle eye for who got how many cookies. There's the proof. So just as we do all we can to take advantage of our kids' natural language abilities from an early age, it is wise to pay some attention to their (pre-) math skills as well. We can set our children
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Wise Words from Shel Silverstein About Reasons to Count
Shel Silverstein gives ice-cream loving kids a tragi-comic reason to learn to count to eighteen. Eighteen Flavors Eighteen luscious, scrumptious flavors-- Chocolate, lime and cherry, Coffee, pumpkin, fudge-banana, Caramel cream and boysenberry, Rocky road and toasted almond, Butterscotch, vanilla dip, Butter-brickle, apple ripple, Coconut and mocha chip, Brandy peach and lemon
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Savvy Picks for December, 2008
Our top ten posts about the wonders of rituals and routines:
- A Season of Rituals
- Savvy Welcomes Betsy Brown Braun on Helping Keep the Fa-La-La in the Holidays with Your Children
- Savvy Picks: Best Children's Books of 2008
- Savvy Welcomes Lyn Colwell and Corey Colwell-Lipson on Greening the Holidays
- Teaching Your Child About Giving Instead of Getting at the Holidays
- Homemade Gifts to Make with Preschoolers
- How to Keep Rituals a Bit Flexible, a Little Lively, and a Lot Unexpected
- Savvy Welcomes Ginger Carlson on How to Give Experiences Not More Things
- Inspired Indoor Activities for the Shortest Day of the Year
- Holidays Are Delicious
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