Welcome to Discover & Explore – a weekly themed linky where we love to share fun kids activities and awesome ways for families to connect and learn!  The linky is hosted by Edventures with Kids and Fantastic Fun & Learning.

This week’s Discover & Explore linky will highlight Earth Day Activities for kids and families.  

Even though we celebrate Earth Day on April 22nd this year, it’s really an everyday activity.  There are so many easy ways to introduce kids to environmental ideas and adopt eco-friendly behaviors at home, at school and in your community.

“We have not inherited the Earth from our fathers, we are borrowing it from our children.” ~ Lester Brown   Being eco-friendly takes on a whole new meaning when you read this statement. As parents, we all work so hard to provide our kids with a good future —  we save money to send them …

Some of the newest lessons for this generation include learning about the environment, ecology and how our behaviors impact the world around us. 

Earth Day is a yearly celebration that reminds us to revisit how we treat the Earth.  These are important lessons for our children to learn as many of our resources are finite. 

Helping to preserve the water, open lands and wildlife will mean that our grandkids and great-grandkids will still have the opportunity to roll down a hill, swim in the ocean and breathe fresh air!

Do you know how every kid has some special talent — a skill that just makes you go “Wow!  Where did they learn that?!”  It’s that thing about your child that impresses you, makes you proud and causes you to stop and think how it will help them in life. For my daughter, her amazing …

We headed out this weekend for a few hours to fly a kite – a spur of the moment idea to enjoy some outdoor time on a windy day.

Have you ever gone kite flying with the kids?

Today on our Discover & Explore linky, we’re celebrating all things Mom. 

Mother’s Day is a time when kids express how much they appreciate all the things Moms do for them all year round.  Homemade cards, hand-picked flowers and maybe even breakfast in bed top the list of kind gestures.

Last year I enjoyed some delicious blueberry pancakes — and the kids even cleaned up the kitchen after the mess, I mean breakfast 🙂

After a long winter, kids love to get outside and stretch their legs! 

Let them get their hands muddy, get their feet wet and discover what happens to nature in the spring.

I don’t know about your house but in our neck of the woods, Spring can get really busy! 

The end of the school year is approaching which means school performances, state assessments and helping the kids to finish all those final projects they need to do. 

Then there’s getting the yard and house cleaned up after winter — turning over the garden, putting away winter clothes, cleaning out the garage so we can FIND the spring toys — all that spring cleaning.

We’re having some fun with maps this summer!  I love using maps as a learning tool with the kids.  Maps help teach geography, directions, reading skills and so much more. Previously, I shared Why Every Home Needs a Map – 7 Fun Ways to Introduce Kids to Geography.  Today I want to expand on one …

We always love to find easy science experiments that we can do at home! And when I mean easy, I’m talking the quick set-up with very few items type of science 🙂 Those types of experiments seem to be plentiful when you’re studying botany/nature (like our How does a Leaf Breathe? experiment) or physics (see …