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Posts tagged "children"

How To Get Your Family Christmas Gifts And Spend NO MONEY! The ZERO DOLLAR Experiment

How To Get Your Family Christmas Gifts And Spend NO MONEY! The ZERO DOLLAR Experiment
If you have been following along, you know that the ZERO DOLLAR Experiment has been coming along fairly well. In fact, it has been amazing. This is the post where I reveal the gifts I was able to get for my immediate family for the holidays and I spent no money to do so. There... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
December 24, 2011 at 6:27 pm
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Teach Your Children to Make a Green Difference

Teach Your Children to Make a Green Difference
Today’s guest post is by Amy Lizee. The job of parents and older generations is to teach children how to live their lives and make good choices. These choices include those that benefit the environment, not harm it. While the planet may be ours right now, our children will eventually inherit it. In order to... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
October 7, 2011 at 7:36 am
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How To Reuse Old Playing Cards To Make A Horse Farm During Winter Break

10 year old entertaining herself with a deck of cards she turned into a horse farm – viola! Let’s call a spade a spade – it is that time of year again and kids are home bored. It is time to pull out all the reduce, reuse, and recycle tricks you can manage to keep... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
December 15, 2010 at 11:22 am
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Green Tip: Kids in Nature Avoid Nature-Deficit Disorder!

Children playing in a fun fall scene from my neighborhood this week. Pushing “Nature Deficit Disorder” out of the way and touching nature – priceless! Green Tip: Get your family out in nature and build a connection with the environment - it will help them cope better with life and learn how to make a difference... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
October 15, 2010 at 12:12 pm
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Traveling in Ireland - Teaching Children About Sustainable Gardening

Sustainability flower container built to inspire children in Ireland to be more sustainable. Children learn most quickly by example, and Lorcan Bourke showed this grandly in his spectacularly popular sustainability flower design for children at the Bloom 2010 event in Phoenix Park at Dublin, Ireland this year. Bloom 2010 had a lovely sustainability section which Lorcan managed. This... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
June 22, 2010 at 6:31 pm
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How The Freecycle Network™ Got My Daughter To Practice Piano and Be Super Green!

Piano in the back of the family car which we got FREE from freecycle.org. Over 7 Million people use The Freecycle Network™ (www.freecycle.org) – one of the best digital community assistance inventions on earth. Above you see a photo of the free piano I got from another The Freecycle Network™ user. My youngest daughter has... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
May 13, 2010 at 4:33 pm
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Three Green Books Reviewed; Simple Living Tips to Help Your Family Live a Greener Lifestyle

Here are three amazing green books which encourage both children and adults in your family to live greener and have fun doing basic, simple, activities that celebrate the inexpensive. TRUE GREEN LIFE IN 100 EVERYDAY WAYS (National Geographic Books; $19.95), is a fantastic book to give your family 100 basic tips on how to live a little simpler. From money... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
March 1, 2010 at 4:00 pm
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Educate Children To Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle - Put Your Thinking Cap On!

Shawna Coronado wearing a “thinking cap” made by her 9 year old daughter. Stymied by a particularly difficult problem, I sat alone thinking about how to solve the issue. In trots my nine year old with the above delightfully handmade hat. She says, “It’s a ‘Thinking Cap’ to help you with your work! I made... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
January 26, 2010 at 9:41 am
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Feeding The Hungry - How You And Your Children Can Make A Difference For A Food Pantry

According to AmpleHarvest.org,”an estimated 100 billion pounds of food, enough to totally eliminate hunger, is thrown away annually in the United States.” Be shocked – and then make a difference for your community by stopping the waste. Regularly clean out your food pantry – - if you are not eating the food in your home... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
December 30, 2009 at 1:33 pm
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Get Your Child Out In Nature - A Creative Way To Learn About Fresh Food and Fun Bugs

We discovered cabbage worms in our broccoli. Ick. Gross. Blech. Nasty. Then my eight year old and I found that the Cabbage Worm Butterfly (known as the “Cabbage White”) is what the Cabbage Worm Caterpillar develops into. What a fantastic way to get your children out in the garden to learn about nature! You can see... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
December 30, 2009 at 11:57 am
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