Today Grace from Kids Health Notes offers up a great contest and some recycling tips.
First up, you can win a copy of Michael Recycle, “A book about a green-caped crusader with a colander hat who swoops into a town and inspires the people to recycle and save the environment.” Enter this nice Earth Day contest.
Next up Grace has some recycle with kids tips posted read tip #1 and tip 2.

Check out Kids Health Notes – learn more about kids health, enter the contest, and gather some new green kid ideas.

The Gift of Nothing by Patrick McDonnell is a simple little book that describes the search for a perfect gift. Finally the searcher realizes that all along, it’s really the gift of time spent together, that matters most. A nice easy story for young children about how stuff isn’t as big a deal as our overly commercial society makes it out to be. I’m not sure that was the original sole intent of this story, but that’s message kids will get. Time is better than stuff.

Everyone I know who has read this book adores it. Check it out at your …read more