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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 Winter Guide or the Southern Hemisphere Summer 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 Liz, who commented, “Wow, I love this idea! Thank you for another great give away!” and Tracy who commented, “THIS momma NEEDS more rhythm, especially with a new babe! Would love to win this”

Thanks, Meagan!

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  1. I have two small children, aged 1.5 and 4 and always wanted to incorporate more nature and season-related activities to their routines. We live in New Zealand and I would be delighted to win this giveaway so I could start my this journey with my kids under your guidance! Thanks!

  9. Inspiring giveaway. Love learning from others. Recent moved to Italy and the Italians live…and especially eat…so seasonally. So am currently gorging on clementines. Not sure a cold November dip in the sea today accords with local ideas on appropriate seasonal behaviour. Would love the opportunity to learn as a family from Meagan.

  10. ~ Beautiful materials to bring nature & seasons into forefront of our lives. ~
    Thanks for the chance to win!
    Best,
    Shell ~

  20. I’ve followed Megan and her beautiful children on her blog and instagram. I would love to win the Southern Hemisphere guide.

  21. Thank you Ginny and Meagan for another wonderful giveaway! !!!
    My son is 5 next September and for a long time I’ve been very interested in seeing what Whole Family Rhythms is like!
    We are very child-led in our home education and just love the idea of a gentle curriculum to follow when we want more structure to the day. I love that it’s seasonal and is very much planned out which makes things much easier ♡♡
    Lucy xxx

  23. Oh HOW WONDERFUL!! 🙂
    I love that there is a guide not only for the Northern but the Southern!! YAY for Australia!!! I’m going to the blog right now, sooo excited to see the fantastic resources and ideas you have!!
    Thanks HEAPS for the chance to win!
    Smiles Sharnee 🙂

  24. This would be a lovely resource as we will be moving around the world in a few months. What a great resource for getting some fresh family rhythms going!

  26. I’d love to have some help here. We are just easing out of infancy phase (again) and this sounds like exactly what I’m looking for.

  28. My 19 month old and I just finished a parent/toddler class guided by these principles sand we enjoyed it so much! This sounds like fun to try at home.

  29. Rhythm is absolutely the thing that makes me feel the most sane when with my kids (and maybe all of the time). Thank you for this gift!

  42. Finding a rythym that works for your family is so important. It’s been a really helpful concept to me to think & pray about as my eldest moves more into the preschooler phase. Thanks for the opportunity x

  43. Ah, we are just trying to figure out our family’s rhythms for homeschooling during preschool years. This would be just lovely. Thank you so much for the chance.

  46. I am wishin’ and hopin’ for your wonderful giveaway. It’s just what my family needs. Thank you

  47. Daily rhythm is so crucial for family health, yet not so easy to carry out well. What a good reaource!