Building sandcastles is a great way to get creative at the beach.  There are even more great and easy sand sculpting ideas out there for kids.  Here's an easy one for building a sand turtle from Kidspot. When your done color your turtle, blue, green, red, orange, purple or rainbow!.  Enjoy your last week of summer with a fun activity! 
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 Today is the day, Eclipse 2017! This is the first time in 99 years that a total solar eclipse will be visible in the USA from coast to coast.  Be sure to view with appropriate eclipse eyewear or make your own using NASA guidelines.  Don't miss this once in a lifetime event!

If we want our kids to have healthy habits it means we need to have healthy habits.  Hopefully that is good news. As parents we lay the foundation of the importance of healthy habits in our everyday lives from outdoor play, to exercise, to eating right, to reading and the list goes on.  If we model healthy habits for our kids, those healthy habits will become ingrained and become part of their lives without much effort. 
 According to a Healthy Habits for Kids article on thingsicantsay.com,  "while 70% of moms played outside when we were kids, only 31% of our kids play outside today.".  This is a statistic we can change starting today. Show your children how great and fun it is to get outdoors, plant a garden, take a walk, collect cool rocks. It doesn't matter what you do. It only matters that you do it and you enjoy it! Healthy habits will become the norm in our children lives if we make them part of our daily day.
Want a quick guide to starting healthy habits for your kids, parents.com shared a simple guide to model a healthy, happy lifestyle for everyone. 
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So lets get out there with our kids and start creating those daily healthy habits!

With the end of summer fast approaching, it's a great reminder to enjoy and savor these last few weeks before the school year starts and we move from ample free time to school schedules and organized sports.  According to a great article in Outside Magazine, The Importance of Free Play for Our Kids comes some eye opening and valuable insights on the unstructured play!

• Free time for children has dropped 25% since 1981!
• Children who engage in less structured activities demonstrate greater executive function when older!
• The lack of outdoor play and time spent in nature by children is now termed "nature deficit disorder" or lack of Vitamin N!

Encourage your kids by "scheduling" unstructured outside time and get that much needed Vitamin N!