Eco Child’s Play

Do you know about the upcoming Blog Action Day?

On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future.

Thus far, 6,545 blogs have signed up, including Eco Child’s Play, and I hope if you have a blog, you will participate. You can:

• Post about the environment

The best way to participate is to post on your blog something that relates to the environment. Your post can be about anything to do with the environment. So you could write a post which is offtopic for your blog OR relate the environment back to your topic in some way.

• Donate your day’s earning’s to charity

A single day’s earnings often don’t amount to much, but pooled together will make a difference. Why not donate your day’s earnings to a charity to show your support. You can find a list of “official” Blog Action Day charities on the site, or choose your own. Blog Action Day itself does not accept money, so you will need to deal directly with the charities.

• Publicize Blog Action Day

You can register your blog here.

The ABC’s of Fruits and Vegetables and Beyondis an amazing book on nutrition using the ABC’s to organize the content. The book begins with each letter boldly illustrated on the left hand page, including the featured fruit or vegetable and a side bar of additional ones that start with the letter. On the right hand page, a rhyming description of the fruit or vegetable accompanies a drawing. The rhyme includes interesting facts, geography, and humor. For example, “J is for sweet jicama (HEE-ka-ma). They’re eaten sliced or whole. If you pronounce the J like H, You’re speaking Espanol!”

The ABC’s of Fruits and Vegetables and Beyond could end after the alphabet is over, but there is much, much more! The “Beyond” portion of The ABC’s of Fruits and Vegetables and Beyondprovides recipes, fun facts, geography, links to other great children’s literature on the letter or fruit/vegetable, jokes, tongue twisters, etc. This is a great resource for parents, teachers, homeschoolers, etc. to extend the nutritional and alphabet lesson.

ABC books are great for young children. They offer an enjoyable method to expose children to the alphabet. The more exposure children have to letters, the more they will notice their characteristics, etc. ABC literature is an effective method for letter introduction and reinforcement, and it is much more developmentally appropriate method than direct instruction. The ABC’s of Fruits and Vegetables and Beyondoffers a fun way for children to learn about nutrition in the context of the alphabet. I can’t way to try out some of the recipes!

Our final winner for our last hemp bag giveaway is MC Milker, who blogs at The Not Quite Crunchy Parent, which is probably my favorite parenting blog. MC writes intelligently and her posts are always thought-provoking. I encourage you to visit The Not Quite Crunchy Parent. She also writes for GNM Parents, just like yours truly. I have the flu today, so I will leave it at that….

I hope our readers will continue to leave excellent comments, and if you didn’t win, you can purchase your own hemp shopping bag. ReusableBags.com features high-quality, reusable shopping bags that will help you eliminate hundreds, if not thousands, of those plastic and paper shopping bags choking our planet. It’s an easy way to do your part! In the future, I will post about how my children and I silk screened the bags, in order that you can create your own designs on canvas shopping bags to personalize them.