Have a Wildlife Experience of your own at Winter WonderLights!  The Wildlife Experience and Five Hens are giving away four tickets to one lucky reader for Winter WonderLights, a fun and magical journey to the North Pole.  The winter journey is filled with merry activities both inside and outside of the museum beginning with the wildlife themed trail of lights. This path around The Wildlife Experience is lined with beautiful light sculptures and colorfully light-coated trees. Escape the cold with a cup of cocoa from a refreshment station along the path and get a family picture with dazzling Winter WonderLights backdrop, or with one of the many stunning sculptures found along the path!  Read the rest of this post...

Win a copy of the game CAMP and a CAMP Activity Book

Painted Hen found a great game called CAMP that’ll keep you enjoying the great outdoors even on cold, rainy, indoor days. Now we want to give six of our lucky readers a copy of the CAMP game and a CAMP Activity Book so you can have fun CAMPing with your family. (MSRP $31.00)

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To enter for a chance to win, please read Painted Hen’s post about the CAMP game and then come back to this post, leave a comment and tell us what you found most interesting about her post.  Read the rest of this post...

All this week we have been encouraging our readers to experience the great outdoors.  And I can hear your question now.. “But Hens – what can we do on stormy days?”  Yes, I know exactly what you mean… those days when it’s fun to stay inside and just enjoy time with each other.  This summer, our family discovered a board game that’s multi-generational, teaches about the great outdoors and best of all, it’s a lot of fun.  Are you ready to CAMP?  Read the rest of this post...

I have always been in awe of people with creatively carved Halloween pumpkins. At our house, we are lucky to get two eye triangles of approximately the same size. But this is my year! World Wildlife Fund has posted cute, simple wildlife pumpkin stencils on the web. There are several designs: a monarch butterfly, dolphins, gorillas, coral, polar bears, rhinos, tigers, turtles, the African plain, and of course the WWF panda. For all stencils, the pattern must be printed, taped to the pumpkin, then holes are poked around the pattern. The pumpkin is cut using the pattern, leaving you with a beautiful, creative pumpkin! Easy, impressive, and FREE. And what kid doesn’t love animals?  Read the rest of this post...