It’s time once again for Orange Marmalade’s annual non-electronic gift guides! Non-electronic pastimes enrich kids’ bodies, minds, and souls. Here’s to holiday gift-giving that encourages outdoor play, creative messes, imagination, ingenuity, exploration, family time, in the juicy, real world. Once …
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let’s go camping!
Setting up the tent on a carpet of pine needles. Hiking to the music of waterfalls. Sipping hot tea around the campfire, watching sparks drift beneath the night sky. Ahhh! There’s nothing like a camping adventure. Here are a few …
the elixir of outdoor play
My childhood was spent in a small town in northern Minnesota where our non-school hours were largely spent playing out of doors. My bare feet were gravel-road-tough in summer; my nose was twenty-below-tough in winter. Just across the road, the grassy …
2017 Orange Marmalade Non-Electronics Gift Guide: Outdoor Adventures Edition + Giveaway!!
It’s that time of year! Time for Orange Marmalade to shout out once again: Ditch electronic games as pastimes! Choose juicy, imaginative, life-giving options for the kids on your gift lists! Today — gift ideas to woo kids right out …
Orange Marmalade’s 2016 Non-Electronic Gift Guide: #Opt Outside Edition
Each year I head into the gift-giving season with a plea to steer the children in your life (and yourself!) towards non-electronic pastimes. Make a commitment to live juicy lives! Hike in the forest. Bake bread. Play hopscotch. Collect rocks. …
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six to begin another round of seasons
I remember that as a child, each New Year’s Day felt immensely consequential. With one flip of the page, an entire calendar, a year stuffed with life, was over; past instead of present. A weirdly sacred finality accompanied the rite …
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