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Let’s Go Sledding!

Let’s Go Sledding!

By on December 31, 2009 in Exercise, Winter

Take the kidlets sledding. Take them sledding! (think of Camper Van Beethoven) Sledding is an essential activity during the winter months in Ohio. All you really need is a little snow, a sled, some warm clothes, and the desire to have fun. I recently took my kids to Antrim Park off of Olentangy River Road [...]

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Worthington Community Center’s Open Gym

Worthington Community Center’s Open Gym

By on December 21, 2009 in Exercise, Play Indoor, Play Outdoor

Are your kids out of school for the next two weeks? Are they tired of playing inside or in the beautiful Ohio slush? Take them to your local recreational center for some runnin’-it-out time. Below are the times for the Worthington Community Center’s open gym. This community center offers open gym during the year when [...]

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Leeds Farm Columbus, Ohio. Great Fall Fun!

Leeds Farm Columbus, Ohio. Great Fall Fun!

By on September 28, 2009 in Educational, Exercise, Fall, Play Outdoor

Leeds Farm, located in Ostrander, is fun – plain and simple. There are ginormous slides, bikes, a giant pumpkin trampoline, rolly tube things, a haybarn with slides, ziplines for adults and children, animals to feed and pet, a hayride, a “banana bus” ride, a grainery where there are beds of corn kernels for kids to [...]

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Fall is for Apple Picking in Central Ohio!

Fall is for Apple Picking in Central Ohio!

By on September 14, 2009 in Educational, Exercise, Fall, Food

  Going to the apple orchard is such a treat. Apple picking is an activity that both you and your child will love, no matter what their age. The very young love to run and play in the orchard, and older children love to pick and eat the apples or make a game out of [...]

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Columbus, OH Splash Parks

Columbus, OH Splash Parks

By on June 27, 2009 in Exercise, Play Outdoor, Summer

The heat and humidity in Central Ohio during the summer months is just plain brutal. Seriously, it seems as if some days the air can be cut with a spoon. Luckily, a few splash parks have sprung up around town that help take the edge off cranky hot kiddies! Splash parks are free, fun, and [...]

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Pickin’ Berries…and other fruit for that matter

Pickin’ Berries…and other fruit for that matter

By on June 8, 2009 in Educational, Exercise, Play Outdoor, Summer

It is the height of strawberry season, and picking them fresh off the vine and eating them should be on your “must do” list in June. I took the kids out to Doran’s Farm Market in New Albany Sunday morning – it was a great activity that kept them interested and busy. I couldn’t keep [...]

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Maple Syrup Festival at Stratford Ecological Center in Delaware, Ohio

Maple Syrup Festival at Stratford Ecological Center in Delaware, Ohio

By on March 9, 2009 in Educational, Food, Play Outdoor, Spring

In a time when going green is on the forefront of everyone’s mind, getting back to the land is important, and eating locally is sought after, take advantage of the awesome farms we have in and surrounding Central Ohio. We did this passed weekend and had a great time. Saturday was an awesome day in [...]

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