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Fort Magic Review & Giveaway

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 Something magical arrived on our doorstep this past Summer!

Fort Magic has been keeping my children busy, busy, busy….

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Sailing in the open waters,

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Building secret passageways,

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Planning and dreaming

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Building and rebuilding….

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With 382 pieces Fort Magic is ginormous! There are so many different sizes and shapes for endless creations.

Fort Magic retails for $199 and every kit includes 382 Pieces:

  • 165 Straight and Curved Sticks in seven different sizes!

  • 87 Connector pieces in five varieties of shapes and sizes!

  • 130 easy to use fabric and accessory Clips! Securely fasten sheets or fabric to ANY shape design your child invents! 
  • A full color Instruction Manual with over 20 designs to build!
  • A high quality Storage Bag that securely holds all of the Fort Magic pieces – so clean up is quick and easy every time!

  • A 30-day Money Back Guarantee!
  • Full Manufacturer’s Warranty on all parts!
  • Fabric Covers are not included.

 

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The instruction manual presents children with over 20 designs,,

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Easy to follow building instructions,

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And so much creative inspiration!

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Fort Magic is durable and will  last a lifetime.

Fort Magic has won 7 of the toy industry’s top educational awards, including:  Academics’ Choice Brain Toy Award, Creative Child Magazine Product of the Year Award, Creative Child Magazine Play Structures of the Year Award, PAL Award, Tillywig Brain Child Award, Parents’ Choice Recommended Award & Dr. Toy’s Best Classic Award – for Creativity, Construction, Educational Value and Activity Play for children!

Read our Full Review of Pro’s and Con’s of Fort Magic Here.

Purchase Fort Magic Here

Enter to WIN a Fort Magic Kit

9/8/14  through  9/12/14

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Disclaimer: I received a free Fort Magic Kit for purposes of this review, and an additional kit to giveaway to our  readers.  All thoughts and opinions about the product are my own.

Fungus….Ewwwwwe!

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Even though we’re mid Fall,
recently I’ve been noticing lots of different colors pop up in the yard.

So today,
as crisp and cold as it was,
we donned our hats and gloves,
and headed outside for a small nature walk.

We brought cameras, a small rubbermaid bucket
and we quickly captured Fall life all around us.
They were all so pretty that we spent all our camera batteries just taking photgraphs!

Some Fall FUNgus for you:

You can imagine how excited the children were as they found each new specimen.

We immediately took off for the library and found this wonderful book
called, Mushrooms of North America and it was filled with beautiful photographs
and information about each different kind of mushroom.

Over the next week, we will be notebooking in our journals about the variety of fungus in our area.

How fun that we can just step outside and marvel at God’s creation.
So glad we got Math worked out so we can have some more days like today!


Spring Fever

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I know I haven’t posted in a while.

It’s really not my fault.

You see we’ve been really very sick.

For the last month or so we’ve all been dealing with a very bad case of

Spring Fever.
(I hear its going around)

We’ve tried to avoid it.

Closing the curtains.

Blocking out the sweet sounds of the birds chirping.

But it’s simply to marvelous to ignore.

We start each day with the intention of sitting around the table learning grammar and history,

our homeschool

but by mid morning I hear the patio door sliding open
and barefoot children sneaking outside for a quick breath of fresh air.

And while our intentions are to have a small break,
we soon find ourselves wrapped up in the glory of God’s creation:

And we spend hours outside.

Inspecting wildflowers…

Tracking wild animals….

And wondering what creatures roam around at night!

We hike into the forest to find neon moss…

And discover the home of a troll….

Surrounded (of course) by troll poison…

And tempting wild strawberries to draw little children closer…

We look close up at the things we pass by every day…

Taking notice of even the smallest creature…

Every year I tell myself that we’re going to stick to a normal school year,

Monday through Friday : September through June

but everytime Spring comes around, we can’t help but soak it all in.

I think it’s time I officially scheduled SPRING into our planner.