Get Outdoors Challenge - Children and nature awareness month

As part of our Get Outdoors Challenge - Children and nature awareness month I sent the kids out to get tomotoes for the evening meal.... 30 minutes later I had to call them in from the garden... it is great to see them get lost in our vegie patch.... I did end up with a container full of tomatoes for the evening meal eventually.

Get Outdoors Challenge - Children and Nature Awareness Month

This is a challenge that I am keen to join in.....   The Get Outdoors Challenge, set up by 5 Orange Potatoes and I first saw it through Little Eco Footprints - like many others I decided it was exactly what we needed.

The challenge is in honour of Children and Nature Awareness Month and requires me to ‘go outside everyday, rain or shine; then take a picture each day, for the rest of April, of your children outdoors and post it. Just a single picture will do; words aren’t even necessary. Lets spread the word and go outdoors!’.


Sounds like fun (for me and the kids)!

As the challenge was for April... I have decided to catch up a bit in this post.. and share what we have already been doing for April... it's school holidays and we have already been outdoors lots...

identifying plants in the Blue Mountains

teaching the kids how the introduced honey bee steals nectar from our native flowers...

lunch on our bushwalk...

enjoying some bush tucker...

at the end of the Glow Worm Tunnel at Newnes - could not get a photo of the Glow Worms (Fungus Gnat Larvae)

a SMASHING Easter Sunday....

Easter Sunday with was spent with relatives this year, the highlight being a traditional Russian Egg Tapping contest.

The first step was to decorate the hard boiled eggs which involved drawing on the eggs with crayon

and dipping them into a food dye, vinegar and water solution..

and wow!!!.

We rested the freshly painted eggs in the cartons to dry..

Once dry we polished the painted eggs by rubbing butter on them and after our main meal on Sunday evening the plate of decorated eggs came out for the contests to begin.

With the rules of the contest layed out it was time to find the toughest egg.

The end result, a lot of fun, lots of smashed eggs and one winner.... 

traditionally the holder of the winning egg is supposed to eat all the hard boiled eggs they have won....

but we kept the egss for lunch the following day. 

I was a great fun Easter Sunday.... I can see it becoming a tradition in our Easter....