Dandelions -- Wall Art Decor at Steve Henderson Collections
Doing Things Together as a Family
Whether it's family night or figuring out how to keep the kids busy during summer vacation, parents are always looking for ideas of things to do with their kids. The best family activities, like the best things in life, don't have to be expensive.
Dandelions showcases the fun, free, simple things parents can do with their children -- and given that dandelions are a plentiful, easy item to find throughout the spring and summer, an afternoon of picking dandelions is a memory maker that parent and child will talk about for years to come.
We tend to think that activities need to be organized, which is one reason so many children find themselves in team sports and dance and piano lessons from such an early and young age. Unless the activity is organized, we reason, it can't be of any value.
But looking back into our own childhoods, what is it that we remember most? Is there not space in our memories for those lazy summer days in which we lay on the grass, looked up to the sky, and dreamily imagined what shapes the clouds looked like? If we did that with our mother or father, or sister or brother, the memory is even more dear, because we shared such a quiet, special moment with someone we love.
Our purpose wasn't to learn something or hone a skill -- it was simply to be quiet, and thoughtful, and share the day and moment with a member of our family or a close friend. It is the simple things, the informal things, the activities that are not organized but spontaneous because they happen while we're living life, that are the ones worth doing.
Dandelions is available at this link as framed and canvas art, as well as images on products -- like the travel tote bag, phone case, home deor throw pillow, shower curtain, and greeting card show below -- at Steve Henderson Collections.
Doing Things Together as a Family
Whether it's family night or figuring out how to keep the kids busy during summer vacation, parents are always looking for ideas of things to do with their kids. The best family activities, like the best things in life, don't have to be expensive.
Dandelions showcases the fun, free, simple things parents can do with their children -- and given that dandelions are a plentiful, easy item to find throughout the spring and summer, an afternoon of picking dandelions is a memory maker that parent and child will talk about for years to come.
We tend to think that activities need to be organized, which is one reason so many children find themselves in team sports and dance and piano lessons from such an early and young age. Unless the activity is organized, we reason, it can't be of any value.
But looking back into our own childhoods, what is it that we remember most? Is there not space in our memories for those lazy summer days in which we lay on the grass, looked up to the sky, and dreamily imagined what shapes the clouds looked like? If we did that with our mother or father, or sister or brother, the memory is even more dear, because we shared such a quiet, special moment with someone we love.
Our purpose wasn't to learn something or hone a skill -- it was simply to be quiet, and thoughtful, and share the day and moment with a member of our family or a close friend. It is the simple things, the informal things, the activities that are not organized but spontaneous because they happen while we're living life, that are the ones worth doing.
Dandelions is available at this link as framed and canvas art, as well as images on products -- like the travel tote bag, phone case, home deor throw pillow, shower curtain, and greeting card show below -- at Steve Henderson Collections.
Dandelions is also available as an original oil painting.
Dandelions is featured in the buying guides at In Touch Rugby and Things That Make People Go Aww