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Whole Family Rhythms {giveaway}

rhythmsbannerToday’s giveaway is from Meagan of Whole Family Rhythms, helping you to create seasonal, weekly and daily rhythms for your family in order to nurture the wonder, beauty and light in early childhood. Whole Family Rhythms are a series of seasonal and monthly guides created and designed to help you maintain a steady rhythm in your home. The rhythms include unstructured, child-led play both outdoors and indoors; early childhood stories and fingerplays; weekly bushwalking themes; daily art, handwork or creative projects; holistic baking and cooking recipes for the whole family as well as weekly caregiver meditations and projects for families of all ages and sizes.

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meaganIn Meagan’s words,
“I am ever inspired by my little ones and the way they live into each moment with very little regard for the past or future. It is so very difficult for us as parents to protect the magic and wonder of childhood. Modern and Western ways of life create schedules, endless to do lists and a constant sense of multitasking that often feels unavoidable. My hope is that by being very clear about our family values and then translating these into strong rhythms for my children, I am also creating a strong rhythm for myself – empowering me to slow down, and to be present, calm and authentic for my children.”

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Each Seasonal Guide contains over 70 pages including weekly oral stories and fingerplays, bushwalking themes, seasonal crafts, wet-on-wet watercolour painting, drawing and modelling activties as well as weekly caregiver meditations, monthly caregiver handwork projects and seasonal book recommendations. Whole Family Rhythms was written and created in New South Wales, Australia however Meagan is originally from Canada in the Northern Hemisphere. She has created Guides for both the Southern and Northern Hemisphere so that no matter where you are there are relevant activities, crafts and themes to suit the holidays and season. The guides are available as a complete set including all four seasons, as single season packages, or even just monthly if you’d like to try a single month.

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Meagan is offering two winners their choice of either the Whole Family Rhythms Northern Hemisphere Summer Guide or the Southern Hemisphere Winter Guide depending on which side of the world you are from. For your chance to win, simply leave a comment on this post. Comments are closed and the winners are:

Lindsay  “What a great idea!”

and

Felicia H. “wow! looks like fun! Thanks for the chance!”

 

Thanks, Meagan!

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  4. Oh my! Just checked out your website and this will be fabulous for a resource as other have mentioned. Lovely. Thank you for sharing.

  5. What a wonderful giveaway! Our family would benefit from this wonderful guide. 🙂

  7. Thank you for this giveaway! This guide looks like it would be a wonderful addition to our homeschool.

  11. Such a creative giveaway….. pandora this mamma needs all the help she can get!

  29. Wow! what a wonderful prize i home ed my two boys 4 and 9 and would love to win such a great prize for our summer ahead would be a wonderful resource, thankyou for the chance 😉

  31. Oh yes please!!! I absolutely love your blog and I’ve wanted your guides for so long, and entered quite a few giveaways for them too!
    Thank you for the chance <3

  34. This sounds so lovely, and just in time for having my children home all summer.

  37. Interesting. Thanks for the chance. (We LOVE Gerda Muller’s seasons books!)

  38. This is an amazing and lovely giveaway! We have been looking for something to shape our summer!

  45. I love this! We try to take advantage of the seasons and get outside regularly! 🙂