It’s in the bag
Filed Under Going Green, Stuff | May 30, 2008
It’s a sad but true fact that kids are becoming distanced from nature. And when local earth mamas Katharine Byers and Sylvie de Sousa read Richard Louv’s book Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder which addresses the need for children to have direct exposure to nature for their healthy childhood development, they had an idea. Why not make engaging and connecting with nature easier and help create more caring citizens and future stewards of our planet? And thus Naturebag was born.
Produced using recycled and organic materials whenever possible, Naturebag is packaged in a fair-trade certified organic cotton shoulder bag (that looks very Indiana Jones when worn messenger style). It’s jam-packed with goodies include a magnifying glass, binoculars, leaf viewers, colour cards, hemp twine, a bug box, blindfold, natural cotton, a recycled notepad (from Ecojot natch!) and pencil, plus an activity book full of ideas for putting it all to use in the great outdoors. And, of course, there’s plenty of room leftover for the treasures your child is sure to collect during their experiments and adventures.
Designed for kids from three to 12, not only is Naturebag’s activity booklet full of fun and easy ideas for scavenger hunts, tree hugging (no really!) and making imprints and rubbings, but there are also more ideas and activities on their site.
And what do kids think of Naturebag? Well our little princess-in-training is tickled pink to have her own binoculars and has developed a serious and very unprincess-like interest in bugs. Beatles. Ladybugs. Spiders. She’s into them all and her Naturebag accompanies her everywhere.
Naturebag Eco-Activities Ltd: www.naturebag.ca
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