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Spring

100 Things to do this Spring with Your Family

by Ashley Mullen Leave a Comment

Spring and the beautiful Spring weather are just about here. We try to get outside a lot in the Spring, after being trapped in the house all winter hiding from the freezing temperatures of Saskatchewan. There is so much that we can, and try to take advantage of the sun shinning. I have a list of 100 thing you can do with your family this Spring, let’s all get outside and enjoy the beautiful weather, sunny or wet.

100 Things to do this Spring with Your Family

100 Things to do this Spring with Your Family

100 Things to do this Spring with Your Family

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  • Start vegetables seeds in the house
  • Start fruit or berry seeds
  • Start flower seeds in pots, to be moved out later
  • Go shopping  for seeds, for the above ideas
  • Go shopping for plants already started
  • Yard tidy up – perfect for Earth Day
  • Puddle jumping
  • Pick berries
  • Dye Easter eggs
  • Easter egg hunt outside
  • Shop at a farmer’s market
  • Have a yard sale
  • Set out bird feeders
  • Make a bid feeder

DIY Bird Feeder

  • Make a bird house
  • Go to a yard sale
  • Have a picnic
  • Have a BBQ
  • Have a bonfire
  • Make S’Mores
  • Spring clean
  • Family walk around the neighbor hood
  • Go for a hike
  • Go for a scavenger hunt
  • Paint outside
  • Hunt for bugs
  • Bird watch
  • Look for birds nest – look but don’t touch!
  • Dig for worms
  • Hold a worm
  • Pick flowers
  • Go for a bike ride
  • Read outside
  • Take the homeschool lessons outside
  • Watch a sunrise
  • Watch a sunset
  • Go bowling

100 Things to do this Spring with Your Family - go bowling

  • Play volleyball
  • Play soccer
  • Play with sidewalk chalk
  • Blow bubbles
  • Make sidewalk paint
  • Skip rocks
  • Paint rocks for your garden
  • Dig your garden
  • Plant you garden
  • Take nature photographs
  • Sketch things outside (flower)
  • Visit a muesem
  • Visit a garden centre
  • Go to the library
  • Go to a playground
  • Go to a park
  • Try golfing
  • Play mini golf
  • Play baseball or tee-ball
  • Jump rope
  • Hola-hoop contest
  • Flower pressing
  • Tree climbing
  • Visit a farm to see baby animals
  • Fly a kite
  • Play in the rain
  • Take a nature walk
  • Go fishing
  • Watch the clouds
  • Listen to the birds
  • Build a fairy garden
  • Visit a new playground or park
  • Make a wind chime


  • Look at the stars
  • Have a fun photo shoot outside
  • Watch for a rainbow
  • Raise a caterpillar into a butterfly
  • Bake a carrotcake
  • Make a dandelion wish
  • Go for an evening walk
  • Hatch chicks
  • Try composting
  • Catch butterflies
  • Take a nap outside
  • Outside yoga
  • Make a flower handband
  • Keep the TV off all day – screen free
  • Eat ice cream
  • Make ice cream


  • Have a tea party
  • Play tag
  • Make paper airplanes
  • Play hopscotch
  • Family movie night
  • Play fetch with the dog
  • Look for tadpoles
  • Walk on a beach
  • Hunt for seashells
  • Paint your toe nails
  • Camp in your backyard
  • Enjoying a quiet evening reading
  • Make cookies for a neighbor
  • Make a pea-tee-pee
  • Visit a petting zoo

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Taking Homeschool Outside this Spring and Summer

by Ashley Mullen Leave a Comment

Homeschooling changes quicker than the seasons change, but it also changes with the seasons here. Now that spring is here, we homeschool outside for the most part. For example, once winter hits and the ice rink is frozen, we get our school work done fast so we can head there. Now that the warmer temperature are here, well, things have changed again. These are some of our outdoor homeschool ideas that we enjoy during the warmer months.

Taking Homeschool Outside this Spring and Summer

Taking Homeschool Outside this Spring and Summer

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The weather is warm, the sun is shining bright, and who wants to be inside on such a nice day? Not me, and definitely not my children. There is nothing that says you have to be stuck inside in order to be homeschooling and or learning.

Reading Outside this Spring and Summer

Grab some books and a blanket and read. Either quietly to their/yourself, or out loud. These could be pleasure reading or reading textbooks for upcoming work.

Get creative on where you read, change it up. We recently started laying and sitting on the trampoline which is really comfortable. We also just received a lovely platform swing that is going to make a great reading spot.

Science Outside this Spring and Summer

Take science outside. Whether you are setting up a table and doing a science experiment outside or grabbing a magnifying glass and exploring your backyard. Take an up close look at some bugs or leaves, or even dirt.

Garden Outside this Spring and Summer

Planting and growing a garden is an amazing opportunity to learn. There is the plant life cycle to learn about, photosynthesis, the importance of bees, and so much more! Even at 5 my kids were understanding how plants grew, what they needed and why.

Plus, you get a delicious, healthy snack. It is a great way to encourage your children to eat healthy too.

Taking Homeschool Outside this Spring and Summer

Nature Study Outside this Spring and Summer

Under nature study there are a lot of things you can do, that is going to be fun and educational.

Photography.

Nature journal.

Science again.

Do you take your homeschool outside once the weather turns warmer?

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Color Changing Flowers

by Ashley Mullen Leave a Comment

The white flowers growing in our yard inspired me in this activity. I had been thinking it, and looked at buying flowers to do it a few months ago but flowers can be pricey. Instead these color changing flowers were inspired by nature.

This is a simple science experiment for your kids, starting quiet young, about three years. It teaches them how a plant absorbs water up it’s stem and nourishes its petals or leaves.

color changing flowers

Color Changing Flowers

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Because our flowers were small, the change took place really fast. The longer the stem and bigger the flower they longer it is going to take. I hope to remember to pick up flowers, such as carnations, after Thanksgiving or Valentine’s Day and do these over again.

All you need is:

  • clear water
  • food color
  • containers
  • white flowers

Simply add food color to the water in individual containers and add your white flowers.

After an hour:

color changing flowers

You can see a little of the red and blue in the veins of the flower petals. After only an hour, mainly because our flowers are just small.

After almost 3 hours:

color changing flowers

Aren’t they pretty? I love the red. You can see a little yellow in the… yellow watered flower.

You can see on the edge of this photo that we also had a container of green water. Nothing happened with those flowers. Not sure why. The darker the food color you have, the better you’ll be able to see it as well. The yellow was harder to see at first.

To keep your flowers going, and get more color in them, trim the bottom of the stem a little in the morning.

This was a great activity as we are gardening and growing vegetables and flowers. It just goes to show the importance of watering our plants. And they do see what happens when you don’t water them… I am terrible at remembering to water my houseplants.

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Filed Under: Experiments, Homeschool, Kids Activities, Natural Homeschooling Tagged With: color changing, flowers, natural homeschooling, nature, science experiment, Spring

Honibe is Part of A Healthy Lifestyle

by Ashley Mullen Leave a Comment

April is almost over, and we haven’t been sitting on our behinds, but instead have busy enjoying the month outside with the lovely weather that has fallen over Southeast Saskatchewan. Temperatures in the high teens to low twenties, the sun shining.

Part of enjoying the lovely weather is making sure that we are healthy enough to do so. Eating right and being active go hand in hand, and in hand with enjoying the weather.

That’s why I was happy to share this product with you, I’m also an affiliate with them now too… and on to the good healthiness.

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Photo courtesy of Honibe

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Filed Under: Family, Sponsored Post Tagged With: bedtime routine, Daily Routine, Honibe, Saskatchewan, Spring, Vitamins

Spring Bucket List 2015

by Ashley Mullen Leave a Comment

Spring has finally arrived! And left. And arrived. And so it continues. But I am very optimistic that it will arrive, and it will stay at some point very soon. As soon as the newest layer melts away.

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Filed Under: Family Tagged With: bike rides, Bubbles, Bucket List, hop scotch, Outside, Spring

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