Create your own nicho box, or three dimensional shadowbox frame inspired by the Latin American holiday the Dia de los Muertos. #dayofthedead #diadelosmuertos
We had some fierce winds lately, followed by two days of rain, and I've been looking out the windows rather bleakly at our now-naked trees. To keep the spirit of fall alive a wee bit longer, I made a great game to play with the boys: Fall Leaves Memory! Make your own game! Download my 1-page PDF of several leaf types for free from Google Drive here. Print on heavyweight cardstock (so they're not see-through). Laminate for added durability (optional). Cut out and get ready to play; mix the cards up and place them face down on the table in rows. Play Players will take turns turning over two cards at a time to try and find a matching pair. When you make a match, go again. If you don't make a match, its the next players turn. The player with the most matches when all the cards have been removed from the playing area is declared the winner! Variation For younger children, have them work on looking through the cards to find two matches for each type of leaf. NOTE: There are 9 unique leaf types so if you play memory, remove one set for an even number of cards.
I absolutely love Halloween, and making Halloween luminaries is something I try to do every year. There's something about things that glow during Halloween!
Stir up witches brew recipe for your slime loving witch or wizard. Making purple fluffy slime is so easy with our step by step instructions.
Enjoy a fun fall nature scavenger hunt with this fun free printable to use with your toddler or preschooler as you explore and enjoy the outdoors this fall
Today we have an easy color by number coloring pages printable activity set that celebrates Day of the Dead or Dia de los Muertos. Preschoolers and
The iconic Monarch butterfly! We all know them and love them, but how can we help them? Here's how I created a certified Monarch waystation on my property.
Cruising Mexico's coast we went high into the Michoacan mountains to hike to El Rosario, a sanctuary for migrating monarch butterflies.
I absolutely love Halloween, and making Halloween luminaries is something I try to do every year. There's something about things that glow during Halloween!
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Take a peek at some past articles from our members-only magazine, The American Gardener, and learn how to grow a butterfly garden or other pollinator habitat. We'll show you how to choose and grow plants that attract butterflies and bees, to increase the pollination in your own neighborhood, and support pollinators as they travel. Don't
Much to my horror, and the horror of most of us, the monarch butterfly was put on the endangered species list this year. I live on 40 acres in the Middle of Nowhere, Texas, and we had a heck of a…
Find out how to see the monarch butterfly migration in Mexico and when and where to find monarch butterflies in Mexico.
Titmice have been feasting lately on a sunflower seed head on a table on the deck. They come one at a time, harvesting the seeds in neat rows before they eat them or store them away. Meanwhile, the monarch chrysalis continues to darken. The caterpillar to monarch butterfly should take 10 to 14 days, or so I've read; this is day twelve, and it's starting to feel like waiting for water to boil. From the deck, Barley watches me as I watch the cocoon. "Wake me up when it happens." Linking with Camera Critters
San Jose del Rincón, Mex.- Mariposas Monarca "Danaus Plexippus" que invernaron desde finales del mes de Noviembre en los bosques de oyamel del santuario de La Mesa en San José del Rincón (a 150 kilometros al poniente de la ciudad de Mexico), iniciarán el viaje de regreso de mas de 5 mil kilometros hasta la región de los grandes lagos en Canada. Los insectos permanecieron por más de cuatro meses en la reserva de la biósfera de conservación en los límites de los estados de México y Michoacán. © Agencia MVT / Mario Vázquez de la Torre.
A Monarch Waystation is a garden that provides food, habitat for the Monarch butterfly population. You can create one in Your Backyard!!
Stir up witches brew recipe for your slime loving witch or wizard. Making purple fluffy slime is so easy with our step by step instructions.
Clusters of Monarch Butterflies overwintering in the eucalyptus trees. Ardenwood Historic Farm Fremont, CA 12-27-11 Each year here in California, Monarch butterflies overwinter in clusters high up in the eucalyptus trees. It is an amazing sight to see! I didn't know until last year that they overwinter here in the San Francisco Bay area in a couple of the East Bay Regional parks near me. I have only seen them once before, many years ago, in Pacific Grove, California. When the sun hit the butterflies and they started to warm up, some of them started quickly fluttering their wings and I was able to get some shots of them with their wings open. This was one of the photos that showed more "orange". This is just one of the photos that I took of them at Ardenwood Historic Farm in Fremont, CA, which is one of the East Bay Regional parks. If anyone reading this wants to see more photos of them that I took, I have a set of photos of them on my Flickr photostream that you can view. April 14, 2012: Today I found out that this monarch butterfly cluster photo was "Image of the day" on March 19, 2012 on a blog page of Climate Central. www.climatecentral.org/blogs/image-of-the-day-monarchs-me... © Sally Rae Kimmel. All Rights Reserved. Please contact me if you would like to use any of my photographs. All of my photographs are copyright protected. They are not to be used in any way, in whole or in part, copied, reproduced, downloaded, distributed and/or used in any form of media, publication or print including on the internet without my express written permission. This applies to all of my photos, whether or not this notice appears in the description, and whether or not there is a copyright or watermark on the photo itself.
