You all know that I LOVE music and think that music is an integral part of teaching our children. Music has a way of getting into your soul and sticking in your head. It’s a perfect way to teach positive values and ideals to children.
One thing that I am successfully instilling in my daughter is a love of our natural world. I am a tree-hugging flower child at heart, so it’s inevitable that my love of nature will rub off on her. She loves to play in dirt, collect rocks and acorn caps and pine cones, smell flowers, literally hugs and kisses trees, and is fascinated with animals of all shapes and sizes. She LOVES fruits and vegetables – she eats tomatoes straight from the vine in our garden, and she even made herself a little hiding place in the middle of the tomato plants last summer. She is my little nature girl, and I feel so blessed.
I want to encourage and enhance her appreciation for nature, and one of the ways I can do that when we can’t be outside because of inclement weather is through music.
One of our favorite albums in our rotation has been Delicious by Orange Sherbet, which is jazzy and fun album all about eating local foods. Eating local is a great way to provide your family with fresh, unprocessed, most-times organic foods. This practice also reduces carbon emissions and supports your local economy. Read my review of Delicious here.
We also love the Celebrate Earth series from Recess Music. There are 5 albums that are all dedicated to our dear Mother Earth (and the stars that surround her). Please read my review of Celebrate Earth, Growing Veggie Soup, Ocean Motion & Wild Child here, and my review of La Bella Stella here.
Another of our favorite CDs is Alison Faith Levy’s World of Wonder because it celebrates the wonders of nature through a child’s eyes. Read that review here.
And finally, you might remember my review of Milkshake’s Got a Minute? album, which has 2 awesome eco-friendly and Earth-loving songs: “Washing Machine” and “This is Our Earth.”
In celebration of Earth Day, I want to share these planet-loving albums by giving a set of them away here on The Simple Moms! A huge thank you to Recess Music, Orange Sherbet, Milkshake and Alison Faith Levy for graciously agreeing to share the love for Mama Earth, and to my dear friend Elizabeth Waldman Frazier who made this collaboration possible!
This is a total of 8 Earth-loving CDs in one giveaway!! Throw your arms around the world, and enter to win!
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We already planted a tree for each member of our Family.
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Plant a tree.
We helped with a creekside cleanup.
we worked on our garden & made a bamboo bean/pea tipi for my son!! thanks for the great giveaway! 🙂
Cleaning up the yard
We reduce,reuse, and recycle everyday and on Earth Day too. To us, every day is Earth Day!
One of the things we did on Earth Day this year was work in the vegetable garden.
I spent Earth Day on the trails at the state park. 🙂
we always plant a tree
We cloth diaper !!
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Well, Earth Day is over! This year, we plan to make the world a LITTLE greener by planting our own herbs and recycling!!!
We went for a walk and enjoyed all the sights, sounds, smells it has to offer! Taste, too, …we stopped for ice cream! 🙂
earth day is garden starting day! (plus i read voluntary simplicity by duane elgin every year for earth day. realigns my brain for the year)
We concentrated on recycling and did some crafts from kiwi crate.
I was so busy with my grandchildren today, for Earth Day! We made paper flower pods, Earth Day cards, walked around the neighborhood picking up trash and hugged some trees!
We went out and rode our bikes instead of driving.
I can’t find Orange Sherbert on Facebook, there’s too many listed and none are a singing group.
I just stayed inside and didn’t drive anywhere to avoid pollution from the exhaust on my van. 🙂
We watched The Lorax and planted a tree.
We are planting some trees.
We planted some flowers
A local Indian tribe handed out mud balls that are loaded with priobiotics that eat away contamination in the creeks and rivers. I went down to our local river with our kids this morning and we threw them in after saying a prayer.
I made naturally-colored Earth cupcakes for my daughter to take to school to celebrate Earth Day.
we give lightly used toys to the orphanage
Today we will not eat anything that comes in plastic.
And for Earth Day, today, we will be making recycled cards out of my Daughters Watercolor paintings to use as Thank You cards! Childrens art is so fascinating! LOVE it!
Love the songs! I make up silly songs to get my Toddler to eat her food! Whatever works to generate interest & to get her to EAT!