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Wondering how you can keep your kids from spending the summer planted on the couch watching TV and playing video games? Get your children outside with activities that involve them in the environment, instill respect for the planet and create family time and memories.
Try these ideas:
1. Grow a Garden
A vegetable garden is an easy start. Let kids get right in there in the dirt when planting, tending and picking. Even toddlers can use a small plastic shovel, put seeds in the soil, and pull a carrot out of the ground (while you take a million photos).
No room for growing veggies? Grow a few in pots on a balcony, or find local farmers' markets, u-pick farms and community supported agriculture programs. Local Harvest offers a wonderful directory of farmers' markets and family farms. Or find a community garden in your area through the American Community Gardening Association.
2. Get Crafty
Rainy day? Turn cereal boxes into magazine organizers by covering them in used wrapping paper, or paper grocery bags you decorate together. Explain the importance of reusing materials that still have a useful life, rather than throwing them in the landfill.
Or make a quick model of the solar system with clay and straws — and talk about how Earth is the only planet we know we can live on, and why we all need to take care of our planet.
3. Take a Hike
Encourage your child’s school to offer environment-oriented field trips and activities, too. Earth Force is a great resource, offering programs to help educators bring environmental stewardship topics, events and activities into the curriculum.
4. Bike to the Store
Between 1990 and 2001, miles driven for shopping grew more than 40 percent — three times as fast as all other types of driving — according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Ride bikes to the store together — get a cruiser bike with a big basket (or take a backpack). It’s great exercise — and a great opportunity to talk with kids about how using fossil fuels impacts the Earth. Take a stash of reusable shopping bags with you.
5. Reduce Your Carbon Footprint Together
From recycling to composting to using less water, eco-friendly activities can start before you leave the house. Calculate your environmental footprint together using The Conservation Fund's Carbon Zero Calculator. Let kids type in the numbers, and talk with them about what your footprint means. Then involve your kids in steps you can take to make it smaller — such as switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs, which use 75 percent less energy than standard incandescents.
Whatever you do, embrace spontaneity. Just getting kids outdoors often leads to happenstance environmental education. Set aside time to play in the backyard or walk to the park with your kids a couple of times a week, and experience the environment together even when you can’t get away.
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