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Color Mixing & Slime
This series of color mixing activities set the tone as the art studio being a community space of experimentation. Children used their...
Cedar Rain Circle
A totally spontaneous moment! All the children found the same type of stick: long, spindly, and made of cedar. Often these make good...
Maps, Mazes & Adventures
We love maps! Here the children are spontaneously all drawing the loop trail that we had just walked at Priest Pt Park-- we call this...
Building a Fairy Forest River
When we arrived at the beach one morning we found two amazing events had occurred. Firstly, a huge madrone friend had fallen down, its...
The Brave Snail
And also: The Crab Grave and Egg Finds Many small wonders today. On our journey down a long gravel road at Priest Pt. Park our forest...
The Journey to "Crab Island"
Steh-Chass Inlet (Budd Bay) is known for mud. Today in 14mph wind and rain and a very low tide we explored the muddy tide flats in all...
A Study of Moon Snails. "How can they even fit in their shell? They are so big!"
We encountered a moon snail on the beach today. We held the underwater snail in our hands. The shell was about 3 - 4 inches long (the...
The Hairs on Tomato Plants
We planted the tomato starts today in the hoop house. Little hands worked to rake in soil amenities, water down the soil and dig deep...
Moon Jelly Fascination
On the shore of Steh Chass inlet (Budd Inlet) today we were fascinated by a washed up group of clear firm jelly fish, about the size of...
Happy Plants: Berries On the Way!
After feeding the garden with "dark, sticky, stinky" compost yesterday we noticed that the plants looked really happy today. We asked...
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