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Our Pollinators need our help: Let’s Make a Bee Watering Hole

June 14, 2020 by Valarie Leave a Comment

Though sometimes viewed as a “pests,” bees play a key role in the productivity of agriculture and the beauty of our world and are responsible for the pollination of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and flowers.

But our cherished bees are facing peril in the form of the disruption of natural habitats. This disruption is in the form of lack of “bee flowers” due to the widespread overuse of pesticides, and numerous bee diseases and parasites have pushed bees to the tipping point. Families can do their part by planting “bee-friendly flowers” like coneflowers, verbena, sedum, climbing petunias, and not treating those flowers with pesticides (insecticides, fungicides or herbicides). That simple act can help to keep bees healthy and firmly on their own six feet.

“Bee”-ing and bee is hard work (we assume) so what can we do to give our sweet pollinators a break? Build a Bee Watering Hole, of course!

Supplies:

  • Flowerpot saucer
  • Rocks which you’ve collected or purchased at a craft store
  • Water

Directions

  1. Arrange the rocks in the flower pot saucer.
  2. Add water until the water covers the bottom half of the rocks.
  3. Place outside near flowers

Interested in more activities like this one?

Inside A Year in the Secret Garden, we explore the world of bees as we make a bee house/hive to attract bees into your garden. Though our garden might be a secret we always need bees and other pollinators inside to help our gardens grow.

But that’s not all!

Enjoy more month-by-month activities based on the classic children’s tale, The Secret Garden! A Year in the Secret Garden is a delightful children’s book with over 120 pages, with 150 original color illustrations and 48 activities for your family and friends to enjoy, learn, discover and play with together.

This vibrant, softcover book is filled with 12 months-worth of idea to help families step away from devices, smartphones, and televisions to discover more about the classic children’s tale The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett—with a modern twist!

A Year in the Secret Garden is available (free shipping within the USA) on the Audrey Press website or on Amazon.

Meet us in the Garden!

 


What if you could “live” inside the pages of the children’s books your family reads? What if you could enjoy the same adventures as the characters? BookJumping is taking the solitary act of reading a book and transforming it into an event that can be shared with others. It’s the process of pulling books off shelves and stories off pages. It’s making kids’ books come ALIVE by “jumping” inside the pages.

The ABC’s of BookJumping: The Best of Jump Into a Book is a concept that lets parents, caregivers, homeschoolers, and educators use the books they have on their shelves to create moments of “learning by doing” and reading all rolled into one!

The ABCs of BookJumping

This robust literacy-based e-book contains over 150 hand-picked book reviews, unique book-inspired activities and recipes, book pilgrimages, facts about classic book authors that we all know and love, and many, many reasons to spend countless hours “unplugged” and revisiting classic stories.

The ABCs of BookJumping

Making reading an adventure for kids and not a “task/ chore/requirement” is a great way to help them increase the desire to learn and keep them interested as well. Setting aside time as a family and selecting a summer reading list is a great way to not only make the idea of reading more exciting but also to involve kids in voicing their thoughts and options on what it is that they would like to read.

Re-ignite your child’s love of reading and encourage screen-free family time today.

Get the details here and reserve your copy ASAP.   The ABC’s of BookJumping: The Best of Jump Into a Book will be delivered to your eReader May 12, 2020.

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