20 Ways to Celebrate Creation With Your Children

1. Call birds, plants and animals in your region, town and neighborhood by name.
2. When traveling find out about the nature you will see along the way.
3. Research the flora and fauna of areas where missionary friends live.
4. Expose your children to nature photographs in books and newspapers.
5. Encourage your children to lift up rocks and see what's underneath.
6. Buy a magnifying glass and binoculars and teach your children how to use them. Keep both out and easy to find.
7. Put up a bird feeder or leave a tree snag standing to provide bird habitat.
8. Grow plants which attract butterflies and ladybugs to your yard.
9. In the fall, let your children rake up leaves, jump in the piles and then spread them around shrubs and plants for winter mulch.
10. Grow a garden. If you don't have yard space, grow herbs or tomatoes in pots.
    Plant an avocado seed and watch it grow.
11. Watch your newspaper for season specific events.
12. Take short daily family walks in your neighborhood. You will notice more each day.
13. Visit parks or nature trails with eyes and ears wide open.
14. Visit a farm to see where food is grown. Some may offer groups an opportunity to feed calves, milk cows, and make ice cream.
15. Go berry picking and then make jam or buy vegetables at a local farmers' market and make stir-fry. Your children should know where food comes from.
16. Set up recycling in your church, Sunday school classes, and fellowship hall.
17. Decrease consumption. Start a book, toy or clothing exchange.
18. Watch for opportunities to help clean up a park or beach.
19. Share your ideas by commenting to this post!
20. Take care of the world around you - pick up trash and recycle.

ideas from author Nancy White Carlstrom