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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Maybe books for adults and adult skills that you could then translate into 
more age appropriate stuff for the kidlets?  Back to Basics, Carla Emery, 
etc.

Kits for making mocassins, knitting loams, etc.

Field trips to local farms, dairy (cow and goat), etc.  Pick-your-own and 
farmers markets.

And then there is Acorn Naturalists website with lots of goodies for kids. 
Have them (a little late this year) grow a 3 Sisters garden or a corn 
teepee.  Corn, beans and squash being easy for small children.  Of course, 
any child can grow carrots.  It is only us adults that have problems <g>

Let the kids make their own SWCs (self-watering containers) to grow things 
in.  They love helping (holding the drill with you) to punch the holes in 
buckets and then putting the potting soil in.  Plus they usually love 
filling the water spout and they can't over water them because there is an 
overflow hole that you build in.

Lynda
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."  Aldous Huxley

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <wixlet AT gmail.com>


> Thanks, Bev, for the welcome and reply, and James, for your thoughts.
> Let me see if I can better-explain my motivation for asking my
> question without getting too long-winded.
>
> Some friends and I, all of whom have young kids (under 6) are working
> together to give our kids an alternative to the established scouting
> organizations.  As we discussed our ideas in detail, I realized that a
> lot of the skills that were mentioned were skills that would naturally
> be developed if one were homesteading.  While rural homesteading is
> the ultimate goal for at least two of the families involved (mine
> included), at present we're all living in an urban area.
>
> Once we found that we were all in agreement, we decided that one of
> the next steps would be to look for information on the topics or
> activities that our kids already find interesting (i.e., building
> forts/playhouses) and relate those things to some of the skills we
> hope they'll acquire (i.e., building a lean-to or other shelter from
> available materials).
>
> I was fortunate enough to spend most of my single-digit years in the
> country, and as a result I have knowledge that some of these friends
> lack, but I would not want to try to pass some of that on without
> refreshing my memory with the aid of books (my grandparents and
> mother, who taught me, are all long dead, so going back to the source
> isn't an option).
>
> I've been reading the list for a while, as I mentioned, and haven't
> really participated in the discussion because I probably have more
> questions than answers.  But I thought that there might be someone out
> there who knew of  existing resources that would be helpful to us as
> we do our best to make our current reality meet our ideal for at least
> a few days out of every month.
>
> Thanks again to everyone who has replied so far,
> wen
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