{"id":3341,"date":"2012-09-20T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2016-09-27T11:45:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T16:45:53","slug":"diy-fun-signs-of-fall-nature-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3341","title":{"rendered":"DIY Fun: Signs of Fall Nature Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tuesday afternoon was a rough one. We’re still trying to find our groove with preschool and Emil’s nap time and when oh when do I get to sit down? I was feeling more than frustrated with the state of affairs over here… poor Emil has caught Oliver’s cold and wants nothing more than to take a nice long nap, but my two big boys are wound tighter than a rubber band and need desperately to get outside and RUN, and until they can do so, they keep waking up the baby. I was one-more-naughty-little-boy-thing away from throwing dishes against the wall when Andrew thankfully walked through the door and took over. Seems like we will be having days like these…<\/p>\n

But\u00a0before\u00a0<\/em>it got to that crazy place, we did something really fun and simple: we had a fall-inspired nature hunt in our neighborhood. First, I wrote out a list of interesting nature finds that I knew were around our neighborhood, plus some that I wasn’t so sure we would find, and a couple open-ended items (like something orange<\/em> and two mystery treasures<\/em>— that could be anything, right?). Then, we grabbed a basket and our “looking eyes” (as opposed to???) and went a-searchin.’<\/p>\n

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The cluster of mushrooms was easy– just in our front yard! But this easy find encouraged the boys and got them off to a good start. Milo started running ahead to find the next item…<\/em><\/p>\n

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… and nearly ran right past some yellow leaves!<\/em><\/p>\n

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And this activity really helped this old mama think outside the box– as I was searching for something orange (thinking leaves or flowers), Milo had to point twice before I saw it: he had found construction paint that was orange. Right under our feet!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Oliver was the master acorn-collector.<\/em><\/p>\n

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… before he started screaming to the skies… um. This should have been my first clue that the rest of the day was going to be a challenge.<\/em><\/p>\n

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And we found every item on the list! It was a lot of fun and naturally led us to the playground in beautiful weather. Next time I think I will leave more clues instead of a list of items… I loved watching their little minds work and figure out each riddle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuesday afternoon was a rough one. We’re still trying to find our groove with preschool and Emil’s nap time and when oh when do I get to sit down? I was feeling more than frustrated with the state of affairs over here… poor Emil has caught Oliver’s cold and wants nothing more than to take … Continue reading “DIY Fun: Signs of Fall Nature Hunt”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,187],"tags":[74,173,90],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy-fun","category-motherhood","tag-adventures","tag-green-living","tag-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12401,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions\/12401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}