Each month, Family Trails will share a theme to guide and inspire your storytelling. We encourage you to answer via Instagram using #FamilyTrailsTales!
Throughout the month we will highlight your submissions on our social media and feature an end-of-month round up right here on FamilyTrails.com.
April is a month of renewal, of budding trees and buzzing bees! It's an inspiring time to be alive, so this month we wanted to see your creative side.
Without further ado, here are some of the stories you told as you explored your creativity:
This morning the girls and I started our day foraging for flowers in our yard. My youngest daughter said, "Mama, I like this because it shows me how beautiful each plant is." I love when they say things like that and appreciate the beauty of slowing down. We have been making flower mandalas and listening to The Bridge of Terabithia. So that is #whatimmakingmondays What about you? Are you working on anything fun this week? Or with the kids? I would love to hear and if you share a photo please tag with #whatimmakingmondays so that I can see. ♡
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As overwhelming as this homeschool year has been for me, it has still been absolutely amazing. Not only watching my children grow and learn but how much knowledge I've gained as well. We read from two books today and it led to great conversations about the Pilgrims, England, building houses, and a plant called mugwort.
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"Reading out loud from Story of the World about the Separatists and Plymouth Plantation. Thor is painting the African Queen Nzinga of Ndomba (Angola). And the kids are "painting" beautiful rocks we found a while ago in Big Sur. {I was about to lose my mind trying to read to Thor over the loudness of two toddlers and as messy as my house already is, I didn't need something else to clean up. One of my favorite mess free things to do with the girls is paint water on ocean or river rocks. The colors come out so vividly on some and others the water disappears so quickly it's like magic wink. Even my four year old wanted to join in.}" #FamilyTrails //
When Sawyer finds something interesting in the woods that has been discarded or needs a home, he scoops it up for his growing "collection" - these are some of his recent treasures (including bones
. . w i l d e x p l o r e r . . . . . Tiny Tobias has a humungous hunger for educated adventuring . . As soon as he could walk he started to collected very important materials for his collection i.e. .sticks, rocks, roly-poly's, moss, flowers . . I love seeing what he is interested in and what he thinks is beautiful. . "Mom, mom, mom. . did you know dat a toad can live to be 25 years old!
Ferns and feathers have been our favorite #cyanotype prints so far. Dandelion flower and seed heads also come out pretty neat. #naturewalk #natureart #naturekids #familytrails #kidsart #kidscience #kidscreative #naturepalexchange #ecoart
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Her nature journal
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Shakespeare made it into the nature journals today. I love when we can combine lessons! #amidsummernightsdream
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