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Early nature play
Low Cost Outdoor Playspace or Nature Classroom Development
Outdoor family playspaces, adventure trails and outdoor classrooms all provide a pint sized place for kids to connect to nature. With so many areas where children are told "no" to the diverse ways they want to interact with nature, outdoor classrooms and playspaces are often a "yes" place.
Yes, please dig in the dirt.
Yes, please dig with the log pieces.
Yes, please climb on these fallen logs.
Yes, you can scream now.
Seriously, the kids just need to just cut loose when they are outside. Don't stress when them get dirty, thats whats sprinklers and washing machines are for. Let them be loud and run around. But then they need some space to fall in love with the natural world around them.
Collect rocks, leaves, and flowers that you can let dry out and use for crafts.
Take plenty of pictures so you can create a photo album for your group.
Prepare a picnic lunch and stop to eat along the way.
Be sure to have a stroller, carrier, or other means to transport young children if they get tired or are unable to walk. If children can walk the whole way, a stroller can still be used to transport your survival kit, extra clothing items, your lunch, etc.
Have fun marking your path. A few days before your outing, paint rocks with the children in your group. Encourage children to deposit rocks along your route. They will enjoy collecting them on the way back
Above anything else, be sure to have fun! Of course, you must guarantee everyone is always safe, but let children enjoy a little freedom whenever possible. Laugh, admire, and explore as much as you can. Children will appreciate discovering new things.
This simple outing is sure to create wonderful memories for the children in your tribe.
Early Nature Experiences
It’s so fun to have a Teddy Bears Picnic in your backyard.
Invite your favorite bears and set up the most magical picnic you can think of! Here are a few ideas of some things you might like to include in you picnic:
A blanket to sit on
Cushions to make your picnic cozy
Teacups
Snacks to nibble on
Water or juice to drink
A book to read your bears
Sit them on a blanket and picnic together while they try out new foods and new ways of feeding themselves. Added bonus: cleanup for you doesn’t involve scrubbing floors, walls, windows or highchairs. If they still need support when sitting, try a “bumbo” type seat with a tray or just bring their highchair out with you.
Whatever you decide to include in your Teddy Bears Picnic be sure to picture worthy. Have someone take pictures!
Why not listen to the Teddy Bears Picnic songwhile you set up picnic!
THE FLIGHTY, ICKY, PRETTY, AND CURIOUS THINGS TO FIND IN NATURE
How to turn a trip to the park—or an afternoon in the yard—into an eco-adventure for baby.
Want to raise a child who respects nature? Explore the earth with your mini scientist. You’ll find plenty of things to see, hear, and do outdoors. These tips will get you started.
Get Rolling
Where to do it: A local park, a wooded trail, or any other spot where you can walk or push a stroller
Perfect for: The youngest babies, stroller playdates, or a change of scenery
You need: A carrier or stroller, snacks, and sun protection Please understand that if they are laying flat on their backs in a stroller, all they will see is the clouds.
Search for: Birds in flight, buzzing bees, slithering worms, and other area wildlife. Identify all by name. Mimic the sounds they make and imitate their movements. Along the path, look for green trees, blue skies, and yellow flowers—and, of course, name them.
Duration: Half an hour or longer if your baby seems relaxed and comfy
Search for Icky and Pretty Stuff
Where to do it: Your own backyard, a park, or nearby schoolyard
Perfect for: Older babies and toddlers
You need: A spoon, shovel, a small bucket to carry things, a plastic bottle or small box with air holes (for wildlife), baby wipes (because you’re going to get dirty), and a blanket to sit on
Search for: Moss, grass, weeds, ants, bugs, worms, and other things that lurk at and below ground level. Encourage your little one to dig, pluck, lift, roll, toss, and carry home some or all of his discoveries. Check out wildlife and follow their movements. Use words like big, small, wet, dry, smooth, fast, slow, rough, and sticky.
Duration: Variable. Activity ends when your Indiana Jones runs out of patience and/or curiosity
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Transform Nature into a Magic Show
Where to do it: A patch of grass, a lawn, a local park, or a patio
Perfect for: Those looking for a peek-a-boo upgrade
You need: A blanket (for sitting), paper towels, and a small collection of pointy, flat, smooth, bumpy, colorful, wiggly, slippery, and fuzzy items you seek together
Search for: Leaves, seeds, ladybugs, flowers, weeds, grass, rocks, stones, sticks, and soil. Cover each object one at a time, and ask your baby: “Where did the leaves go?” or “Where are the ladybugs hiding?” Remove the cloth to reveal the item. Continue the game with other items.
Duration: 15 minutes, counting search time
Chat with the Animals
See Also: Happy Birding!
Where to do it: A park, farm, zoo, your neighborhood or public fairgrounds
Perfect for: Kids old enough to enjoy petting zoos, and those who grasp language, vocabulary, and the art of conversation
You need: Your animal voice and the eye of a ranger
Search for: A variety of domesticated animals you can see and touch (but only after confirming they’re baby- and people-friendly). Let your child hear how cows moo, lions roar, sheep bleat, and monkeys chatter.
Duration: 30 to 40 minutes, depending on the facility’s size and how much there is to see and do there
Pretend You’re a Scientist or Botanists
Where to do it: Your own backyard or anywhere else that’s green or grassy
Perfect for: Curious toddlers
You need: Magnifier glass, blanket to sit on and a pail or bucket to hold your findings
Search for: Pine needles, pinecones, tree bark, acorns, leaves, and flowers. Grab samples of vegetation and examine them closely like scientist would. Look for similarities compare and contrast items for differences in color, shape, weight, and texture. (Avoid poison oak, poison sumac, and poison ivy; carry a guide to help identify them.)
Duration: 15 to 30 minutes
Host a Scavenger Hunt
Where: Your backyard or a playmate’s
Perfect for: High-energy and curious toddlers
You need: A list of items (use pictures instead of words), buckets to collect things, a magnifying glass to search for small specimens
Search for: Something wet, dry, shiny, smooth, bumpy, green, or yellow. Or ask for three flowers, or three leaves, whose appearance differs.
Duration: Hunt ends when kids grow weary, or you get tired of chasing them.
HAPPY BIRDING!
WHAT KIDS CAN LEARN FROM THE BIRDS
Anne L. Fritz
With their bright colors and cheerful tweets, it’s no wonder little ones are naturally drawn to feathered friends. Read on to find out how to make the most of kids’ fascination with birds.
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Birds come in all shapes and sizes. Here’s what even the littlest kids can learn by observing birds.
1. They learn about colors.
If you live in an area with a wide variety of birds, head outdoors in cloudy or sunny weather and help your tot spot backyard birds in a range of colors.
Start by focusing attention on primary colors as you point out regal red cardinals, cheeky blue jays, and cheery yellow or orange finches. Search, too, for backyard visitors whose drab colors—black, brown, and gray, for example—keep them safe by letting them blend in with the environment. If your tot seems happy, go ahead and introduce numbers; you can count the number of birds you see—on the front lawn, in your backyard, or way up high in a sidewalk tree. But don’t overwhelm your cutie. Build on the lesson at story time later by sharing a favorite book about colors, birds, or wild animals in general to reinforce outdoor learning.
2. They learn about sizes.
Kids can pick up tons of info (with your help) by observing wildlife from a distance. So, visit a park, lake, zoo, or farm where you and your curious toddler can continue the adventure.
Wherever you go, be sure to look for a variety of birds—this time focusing on sizes instead of colors. Each time you spot a bird, use a word like big, small, short, or tall to describe it. Or make comparisons. Ask your child, “Do you think the mama duck on the pond is bigger or smaller than her baby duckies?”
Or try this: Ask your junior birder, “Is the swan on the lake here bigger or smaller than the peacock at the zoo?” Or perhaps this: “Is the blue jay we just saw bigger or smaller than the owl at the farm?” Go a step further and search off the beaten path. Find a trail and look for birds while you both call out big, small, tall, or short together. Continue making size comparisons at home—with other objects.
See Also: Fun, Flighty, Icky, Pretty, and Curious Things to See or Hear in Nature
3. They observe features, habitats, and behaviors.
Help your toddler hone her powers of observation by focusing her attention on fun bird facts she can tuck away for later.
Like what? On walks, show your cutie that while some birds (eagles, hawks, and ravens) fly high in the sky, while others flit from tree to tree. Explain that still others (like penguins) are totally grounded. Watch a backyard bird hunt for food. Does he eat worms or look for seeds? Does he rest in trees or, like a woodpecker, peck away at them?
Read books (or tour the town) to show your birder that our feathered friends have wings, beaks, feathers, and tails (unlike us), and, if the opportunity comes up, let your child see firsthand that a robin’s wings, beak, feathers, tail, and house are very different from those of a country rooster or a city pigeon. Toss in other random facts while you’re at it. Mention that ducks hang out by water, city pigeons like sidewalks and window ledges, and humans prefer houses. But don’t stop there. Shed your inhibitions and work on your tweet-tweets, chirp-chirps, and cock-a-doodle-doos together. This is a multifaceted adventure, so be sure to use your stroller time to boost your toddler’s word bank, listen for birdcalls, and practice them together.
Extend the fun with these activities:
Read books. Even young babies will like small board books with colorful photos. For older tots, try Little Green, a story about an active hummingbird, or Are You My Mother?, the classic book about a hatchling searching for its mom.
Fly like a bird! Hold your baby securely straight above your chest, then have her flap her wings and pretend to fly! Kids get a kick out of pretending they’re birds. Just make sure your baby doesn’t have a full belly and can hold her neck up on her own.
Make a feeder. It doesn’t have to be fancy. Grab an empty paper-towel tube, let your tot smear peanut butter on it with a spoon, then roll it through commercial bird seed. Hang it near a window and watch your feathered friends stop by.
10 Timberland Trekking Activities
Last updated on March 28, 2022
Here are 10 of our favorite active kids activities in our play space. Most of these can be balancing activities that can be made for free using items you already have around your home and yard. These fun and engaging outdoor or forest activities provide kids with plenty of opportunities to develop their muscles, gross motor control and balancing skills.
These play ideas will spark your child's imagination and curiosity to foster their creativity and a love for the outdoors.
Our outdoor activities will entertain, teach and engage young children and most can be set up with things you already have around the house.
HOMEMADE TIGHTROPE:
String 2 lengths of ropes between two trees, fence posts or deck rails to create a tight rope. Our ropes are looped several times around a couple of trees and secured with a few good knots. Place one about a foot off the ground, and the other high enough up that your child can hold onto it while walking across or balancing on the bottom rope. They’ll be shaky at first, but you’ll be amazed at how quickly your kids will get the hang of it. Even our one-year-old loves balancing on our backyard tightrope.
If you’re looking for a TRUE tightrope experience for kids AND adults, Amazon.com has these awesome things called slacklines. Challenging at first, they’re supposed to be really fun and quite easy to catch on to, and they provide the real deal when it comes to walking and performing jumps and tricks on a tightrope.
See how we use pool noodles to turn our tightrope into a backyard abacus too!
HOMEMADE BALANCE BEAM:
A homemade balance beam is really easy to make. Our is just a 1×6 (or possibly a 1×8) piece of lumber with a couple of wider pieces of wood screwed to the bottom at each end of the beam. These bottom pieces give the beam stability, so it doesn’t tip when the kids are balancing on it.
You wouldn’t believe how much enjoyment the toddlers and preschoolers get from this simple contraption.
A well-positioned log would make a great natural balance beam in an outdoor play space as well. Alternatively, you can purchase balancing toys for indoors or outdoors at Walmart or Amazon.
PLAY LOGS:
When my Dad took down a large tree for a neighbor, I asked him to set aside a few pieces of the trunk so I could add them to our backyard play space.
I placed three of the stumps upright, close enough for the hooligans to step or jump from one to another. The 4th, I placed on its side. This sideways log is a little trickier to balance on, but even some of the toddlers have mastered it.
If you know anyone cutting down a tree, see if you can score a few pieces of the trunk. Dig them into the ground by about an inch or so, using sand to level and settle them. These are fantastic for balancing on, or for stepping from one to another. You might also ask a local Tree Removal Company, if they would consider parting with a few stumps or small logs. Read more about our Play Logs here.
LARGE PLAY ROCK:
This rock actually sits near the bus-stop in our neighborhood, but if I ever had the opportunity to get one for my yard, I wouldn’t hesitate. Not only is a rock like this great for standing and balancing on, it provides endless opportunity for imaginative play.
Over the years it’s been a pirate ship, airplane, rocket-ship, diving board, restaurant counter, horse, an elephant… It’s a gathering place, a podium for singing and speech-giving, a trading post where we examine and swap the treasures, we find on our nature walks…
A rock like this is truly priceless.
STEPPING STONES:
Smaller rocks in the form of “stepping stones” can help to develop a little one’s sense of balance.
The hooligans spend lots of time following this short path of stones from our porch to our front yard and circling back to do it again. I’ve always found that there’s something quite magical about a stone path set into a garden or forested area.
CHALK OR ROPE LINES:
Lay down a long, winding piece of rope, or draw a curvy line with sidewalk chalk for your child to walk along. Have fun with different styles of lines: zig-zags, straight, winding, or a circular labyrinth for example.
In the photo above, our chalk line just happens to be drawn on our low brick wall, which also serves as a perfect place to practice a balancing act.
CLIMBING THE SLIDE:
Supervision and common sense are called for here, but as long as no one is waiting to go down the slide, I’m all for climbing up the slide.
Core strength, balance, risk assessment and decision-making skills are all challenged here.
By the end of June, our 1 year old (seen in this photo) could make it to the top of the slide and into the playhouse.
STANDING ON THE SWINGS:
As with climbing on the slide, you need to exercise some common-sense and supervision here, but this is another activity that helps a child to develop his or her sense of balance. Standing on a moving object is tricky, but a steady and slow-moving tire swing is the perfect place to practice such a trick. One look at these faces gives you an idea of how proud these little ones are about their accomplishment.
BALANCE ON A BENCH:
Relax your rules a bit when you’re outside and let your child climb on the “furniture”.
Remember the joy of walking along a picnic table bench when you were young? Just because a bench or stool wasn’t designed withstanding in mind, it doesn’t mean a child can’t explore it that way when it’s not in use.
A SPACE FOR EXPERIMENTATION & PLAY
Creating a natural backyard playground is an easy, fun, and extremely cost-effective project. Not only can you get your backyard looking exactly the way you want it (since you’re not beholden to whatever the jungle gym designers put in the box at Walmart) but your kids can help! You’d be surprised how imaginative your children can be when asked to aid in the design process.
A backyard, natural playground ordinarily uses little to no plastic or metal materials, and has an abundance of wood, earth, rope, and even water elements.
I was introduced to the Nature Explore outdoor classroom concept as we developed a natural playscape at a nature center in Indiana. This research based process helped reign in all the possibilities and gave me a framework or mindset to actually get started!
Their Learning with Nature Idea Book is essential to getting started. However, I think the $20 investment is worth the money for the simple concepts and framework presented.
To help make these spaces more accessible, I share tips below for lower cost alternatives.
We also started looking through our basement and garage and other areas of the nature center to see what might be used or repurposed. We found this low open table with sides. It is slightly slanted, but okay enough to be a building base. We put it behind our building under the overhang. It doesn't need as much protection being under the overhang.
Protection from the sun and other weather is a huge priority for the budget.
There is nothing worse then having to cancel a mini adventure outside because of the weather. They love to have their tinker time and nature kitchen time to create whatever they want. Then theres the kids that just need to unwind freely. And we need them to unwind and regather their ability tofocus.
We also found many loose parts throughout the center that could be repurposed for outdoor play bits and pieces. We gathered baskets, pinecones, sweet gum balls, etc. for use in the outdoor classroom. We store much of it in our "Loose Parts Play" area inside and then take outside as needed. I also helped a friend nearby get ready for her certification. She has a beautiful outdoor area that just needed a few more pieces for a music and movement area as she didn't have official built in pieces outside. She had a great open space for it though. Going through her indoor storage areas she had great scarves, hula hoops, and smaller musical instruments. These could easily be gathered in a large basket to have the available in this area. What can go outside that you have inside?
My children and I were part of a 4-H club and scouts. I love how they focus on teaching service and connecting with others. They toured the nature center and decided they would like to help with a music wall. The children brought in items that might be used for music, such as old xylophones and other metal items. They put in the upright poles, added collected branches from the area, and screwed in the items to explore. Additionally, we received a grant as the nature center to buy a chainsaw to make other benches.
We received funds from local Optimist clubs and then the local boy scouts group came in and put together our boxes. Girl Scouts helped clean up the area and added new seasonal plants. Hey you get the help where you can. Especially when it is a project open to the public. Most men don't mind helping with something outdoorsy. So at least ask your family and friends
My husband knows that one way I feel love is through acts of service and spending quality time together. He has "given" me a few mornings of his time as birthday presents the last couple of years. His help might include using a post hole digger to add poles, building an art easel, sawing legs off a table, etc. I try not to abuse it, but his help comes in very handy when I have a vision of what I'd like to see done.
I LOVE seeing various ideas for outdoor play area. In particular, I love the kodokids.com, natureexplore.org, the Adventurous Child Playgrounds, and Natural Playgrounds. I also pour over websites, such as Pinterest, for other ideas. Check out some of the boards I have to start your search. I have boards specifically on Nature Explore Outdoor Classroom "areas" as well as lots of boards on Loose Parts Play--infants and toddlers, storage, natural items, etc. My main board for outdoor classroom ideas is WNC Natural Playscape.
I cannot generally afford all the items I would love from these catalogs (though buy select items I can't get otherwise); however, I can use them as inspiration for safe DIY versions of the items. For example, I usually see the clear easels for around $1000 with additional shipping. We had some grant money and were able to build our version for just around $250. It took a morning with my husband, plus some time figuring out what we would need and finding places for supplies.
Here is a basic tutorial that we based our plans off. We chose to make our easel longer as that was the size of acrylic we could find easily at our local home improvement store.
I also LOVED the ramps I was finding various places for exploring in our messy materials area. These were $250-300 for a set. My friend has a handy husband. I showed them to him and he thought they were something he could make. For about $30 (plus a willing helper who has lots of tools), we had at least two larger sets of the ramps only, using pieces of logs and tree cookies to help position the ramps during play. Find our tutorial here.
These have added a great dimension of engineering, math, and STEM concepts in our outdoor classroom.
We keep our ramps inside in a crate near the back door. We can easily bring them outside when we want to use them.
This is our nature art area. As we put this area together, I found a table on the side of the road. We cut the legs down so it was a shorter table. Our neighbors were having tree work done, so I asked for their stumps. The garden mirror came from a local resale type shop for $2.50, the cork board from a garage sale for $1, and the easels and metal decoration were unused in my garage. By "scrounging" we came up with a basic area that we could add to as needed. Total cost--less than $5 and time gathering items.
I'll share another picture of this concept soon. A friend finds plastic and wooden crates behind a local Mexican grocery store. She understood our concept and shared crates with us. These were perfect for storing loose parts in our outdoor classroom.
Nature is usually free! Our site is on ten acres of woods. Wood abounds! These logs happened to be stacked in the area we used for our outdoor classroom--instant climbing feature! We also have been able to make tree cookies, gather pinecones and sweet gum balls, make log seats, etc.
Nature naturally recycles itself. Natural items can be used for a time and then put out to compost when they no longer serve their purpose in the outdoor classroom. Watch for a picture below with items in crates. A neighbor was getting rid of rough tree cookies, my children collected acorns, my son and I picked up downed pine branches, and children at the nature center gathered sticks to fill our crates. Nature is free! Check with tree trimming places for materials. I also have stopped numerous times when I see downed trees. I knock on the door, let them know what I'm trying to do, and usually am allowed to take whatever I can fit in my van. I put adds in our local free newspaper and let people know what we need! They will often collect and deliver even!
As we looked at what we would like in our outdoor classroom, I knew we couldn't afford all the things we wanted. We received an initial grant from NAI Region 4. In the grant, I explained our vision and what we were trying to do. We couldn't afford the whole Nature Explore set up, but we did select things to buy that would really make an impact in our outdoor area. We bought large pieces of outdoor fabric (though have since also added tulle to this crate and it seems to be doing fine), small garden tools, buckets (love Nature Explore buckets), and materials for our clear easel. Find the items you really want and can't find a less expensive way to make or procure them. As you write grants and look for other funding, use these funds for those items you cannot get otherwise.
We have a great local store called ReStore--it's part of Habitat for Humanity. People donate all kinds of building and other supplies to sell there. I like to browse it once a quarter or so to see what I can find. I have found these garden mirrors for 2 for $5 when they are on sale. I have even called and asked for when they will be on sale so I can get a better deal. I couldn't afford a large entryway; however, I could afford two garden mirrors on posts that I got on sale at our local big box store. They make an impact and say welcome to our area. For our initial certification, I had found poles to post in the ground with a laminated color picture to name our area, and scarves tied around. This was an okay temporary fix, but I'm much happier with our $10 upgrade.
We also put these mirrors in our mud kitchen area, as "windows". We are also considering adding them to our wildflower and weaving area for additional artistic elements. One person mentioned the ground was warm from the reflection of the mirrors. I didn't see any warnings on these, but it is something to watch and be aware of.
I have also found domed acrylic mirrors. I put these out in the yard to see our muddy faces on International Mud Day or to watch the trees above our head swaying in the wind. It's great to see children interact with these. I take these in when we are not in the area. I found marine planks for $2/board, too. These made a little table in our mud area and my children use them as a loose part in our log area at home. Get to know the people at the store and let them know what you are trying to do--they may alert you of other materials you hadn't thought of before.
I have also seen utility spools and large tubes sitting outside industry spot in our area. I have stopped by and asked if they were okay to repurpose in our area. I check to make sure they didn't have exposure to various chemicals and look for smooth edges and safety. Are there places in your area that might have items to repurpose? I also found large cardboard flowers after a Vacation Bible School that were going to be discarded.
We easily stapled these to the back of our building for some color and added whimsy!
Building stores, salvage shops, and flea markets may be in your area. Browse home improvement stores.
I am always on the hunt for other ideas that are low cost. We visited Kalamazoo Nature Center's outdoor playscape and noticed this gate made out of sticks. It seemed simple and inexpensive. We used this concept to carve out a dirt digging area in our outdoor classroom. One guiding principle is to have clearly defined areas. This is an inexpensive way to make a clearly defined area. A couple of cub scout groups came in and put in the wooden stakes (about $20) and gathered the numerous sticks from the woods and yard to fill in our "bird's nest". It makes a great place to dig in the dirt.
Spice things up with something new or reuse elements in a different way. Its always fun to use your pint size construction workers and your little creative consultants for cheap help...LOL
While allowing for easily accessed storage is one of the guiding principles for Nature Explore Outdoor Classrooms, we don't always want to leave some of more expensive items outside beyond our open hours. We have items in crates for the various areas that can easily be secured indoors and taken outdoors. We have a basket of scarves and small musical instruments to add to our basic musical area. We also did a mobile concept like this for my friend's music and movement area. In the picture below, you can see crates outside--these items I am comfortable leaving outside.
Other baskets we might have include a fort building kit. We have an area under a tree with lots of long sticks for building. We started our fort building kit from a Christmas present. My brother and sister-in-law gave the boys a set of recycled sheets, ropes, and clothespins. This was a great place to start. We have added more of everything to this to accommodate larger groups. The picture above is from when we set up shop in front of our local library during a program, called Nature Play!
It was fun to have a mobile nature spot that could be taken many places.
My final tip is to let others know what you are trying to create. It takes time to explain it and let others see the vision, but it's worth it in gathering resources and finding friends and groups to help with the process. As you read above, this involved families, husbands, friends, service groups, and many more to pull together. It took a leader to see the vision and to help with the organization, with lots of help of other volunteers. I appreciate all the support in getting this done.
I mentioned these crates in various comments above. This was all free! One person donated the crates (and came back with friends and did yard clean up for a total of 16 hours). She also filled up the garden boxes with worm castings. She has an awesome product through RAW Sustainable Living.
As people get more involved, see children and families using the space, and understand the need for the areas, they will help! Point them to what you need done. I have been sharing my Pinterest boards lately as inspiration for others who want to contribute to this project. I cannot do all the projects that I would love to see happen, but families and groups can adopt a spot and make it an even more engaging area for our community.
Another family often brings their 4 girls into the nature center. They are working on a fairy garden spot deep in the woods. This is different than one of the guiding Nature Explore principles of having areas visible at all times. However, we wanted this spot to be a little more magical. Our intent is that it will be for older children who might not need as much supervision and for families that include an adult with them so there will be supervision there.
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40+ Nature Books to Read to Your Kids
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