Sep 21
Written by Chicargobike
photo courtesy of Chicargobike
Our middle guy is starting to talk about his upcoming birthday party – “upcoming” meaning, we’ve still got some time to plan. Lots of time, in fact. In the meantime, it makes us think about what we did last year: a make it ourselves Bike Festival.
Our party had three parts: bike decorating, a freewheeling parade, and cake time. Read more
Sep 8
Written by Amanda Levitt, ND
Why is everyone compelled to give children junk food at every event?
Math night: colored popsicles, Choir: Processed ice cream and a bag of candy, religious school: ice cream with every imaginable topping. It is ubiquitous! Even when I take my kids on a bike ride to a local park to see tadpoles and hike around, the well intentioned ranger offers a lollipop. What is this need to ply our children with junk food at every possible opportunity? Isn’t the experience reward enough? The last straw for me is when a group of parents wanted to buy a cotton candy machine for our school. Once a year at Art Night (which is a fabulous, enriching event at our elementary school) the school rents a cotton candy machine. Don’t ask me how this became a traditional or what in the world relates this junk with art…but ok, once a year, we can choose whether or not to partake. Buying a machine is another matter. Besides issues of storage and cleaning, I can predict that at each and every school event, that machine would be rolled out so we would get our money’s worth! Aren’t we supposed to be advocating for our children? Read more
Submitted by Ritu Nett Photography
Forest Fairies Mini Sessions
Includes 1 hour session, 10-15 proofs, 2 custom designed albums & 1 desktop portrait. See below for details! Read more
Submitted by Jeanette from Doolidoo.com
Every year with the arrival of summer, we welcome long sunny days, beach time fun, and the long awaited return of backyard barbeques and family gatherings. For us parents, we also welcome the never-ending stream of invitations to children’s birthday parties, bar and bat mitzvahs, graduations and christenings. Of course, we love to celebrate children and their milestones. We just can’t seem to find the right answer to that age old question… “What gift should I get them?”
Enter Doolidoo.com, a new website and free service allowing parents and kids to create a wish list that can be shared with family and friends… Read more
Submitted by Paul from the Garbage Museum
Since it opened in 1995, the CRRA Garbage Museumhas welcomed more than 300,000 people who came to learn to take better care of our environment, but nobody has ever been to the Garbage Museum for a birthday party.
Yet.
The Garbage Museum is offering a chance for one lucky person between the ages of 3 and 12 to enter a drawing for a complete birthday party at the Museum. Entries are $5 each, with forms available at the Garbage Museum. The winner will be drawn at the Museum on Wednesday, June 15, 2011.
Proceeds of the raffle will benefit the Garbage Museum and its award-winning sustainability education programs.
“We’ve never hosted a birthday party before, so this really will be a unique prize for one lucky girl or boy,” said Education Supervisor Sotoria Montanari.
The winner and 25 of his or her guests can celebrate with Trash-o-saurus, a one-ton dinosaur made from trash. The party will include a Museum tour, a craft activity, a movie, a goodie bag for each guest, cupcakes, ice cream, juice and decorations.
All entries must be received by Tuesday, June 14, 2011. The winner need not be present at the drawing.
The CRRA Garbage Museum is located at 1410 Honeyspot Road Extension, Stratford. For more information, call 203-381-9571 or find the Garbage Museum on Facebook. Admission is $2 per person, free for children age 3 and under.
The Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority is a quasi-public agency whose mission is to work for – and in – the best interests of the municipalities of the state of Connecticut. CRRA develops and implements environmentally sound solutions and best practices for solid waste disposal and recycling management on behalf of municipalities. CRRA serves 96 Connecticut cities and towns. CRRA also runs sustainability education programs through the Trash Museum in Hartford andGarbage Museum in Stratford. For more information about CRRA and its activities, visit http://www.crra.org. Computer users can also discuss CRRA at its blog, http://crra-blog.blogspot.com.
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