Playing: The Imagination Tree

The Imagination Tree is a great website for home-made, simple, educational, and fun games and activities to play with your child. The articles are arranged by age category so you can pick the right ones for your family. What a fantastic website!

Playing: Physical Literacy

WTF is Physical Literacy you may ask?

Find out on this website: Active for Life

I love this approach to children's fitness. Children should love all kinds of different activities- crawling, jumping, walking, running, stretching- and all the sports those activities lead to- hiking, soccer, baseball, bowling, and yoga.

It also has links and news articles about the latest developments in family fitness including how to use popular movies (like FROZEN ) to encourage children to become active. Oh- and it is slightly academic... *listen as the awe-inspired music of millions of educated angels sings to you.*

Eating: Banana Bars

It has occurred to me that I am using this blog as more of a pinterest board with collections of links I need to remember rather than a "blog" per se, but oh well. Is the internet going to sue me, likely not. On that note:

My mom found and posted this recipe that I love. Simple, fast, and you can pronounce all of the ingredients, all 6 of them. For little kids- drop into smaller bite size pieces. For older kids- create "bars" that can be gnawed on. Adjust baking times accordingly.