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Teacher Appreciation Week

Teacher Appreciation Week is approaching in May, consider thanking your teacher with a naturally plant-based gift. This basket was put together by a Helping Ninjas kids – items consist of the following plant based items:

  • Lemon Essential Oil
  • Lavender Essential Oil
  • Young Living Essential Oil Glass Roller
  • Grapeseed Oil
  • Stainless Steel Kitchen Counter Top Compost Bin
  • Eco-Friendly Children Hand Wipes
  • Seventh Generation Dish Soap
  • Method Green All Purpose Cleaner
  • Ceramic Planter
  • Stainless Steel Bucket Planter
  • Tomato Seeds
  • Lavender Seeds
  • Compost Jar (Homegrown by Helping Ninjas kids)
  • Seedling Starter Jar (Made my Helping Ninjas kids)
  • Lavender Hand Sanitizer Wipes
  • Lavender Hand Soap
  • Turquoise Cloth Kitchen Napkins
  • Recyclable Compostable bags
  • Recyclable Cloth Napkins

 

The Native Bee Hut Project

What are you doing for Earth Day? Did you know 400-500 Mason Bees can do the same amount of work in the same time that it takes 30,000-50,000 honey bees? Helping Ninjas are learning about gentle native bees, such as Mason Bees — and how you can help them! Right in your own backyard! They are gentle bees, so they will not sting you – and they are quite amazing! Want to learn how your chid can help too?

Native Bee Hut Project Ninja Missions

To join us as we embark on the initiate to help save bees and pollinators with Holly’s Hives, the Native Bee Hut project, email  [email protected]

Visit The Native Bee Hut Project, to learn more about Holly Faust of Hamilton County Park, and how the Helping Ninjas’  are helping!

To keep up with our progress, subscribe to the  Helping Ninjas Blog here:  SUBSCRIBE TO OUR BLOG

What are you going to do for Earth Day? Bees In danger

Earth Day is a day when everybody tries to go “Green,” or does something to help the Earth, or to celebrate Earth! One easy way you can go “Green” is by creating awareness. For example, Have you ever thought about what is going on with pollinators, the species who help us grow crops, trees, flowers, and any plant in general. Everyday, farmers add neonicotinoids to their crops to work as pesticides and chemical fertilizers. But, these fertilizers affect the pollinators’ nervous system and causes them to get diseases. If even one pollinator is affected by this disease than the entire colony gets infected and eventually it will die. Pollinators aren’t the only things infected, these chemicals spread throughout the entire plant they are sprayed on. This means almost all our crops could be infected and we could be eating these poisonous chemicals everyday. Research shows that three-fourths of all the honey in the world is infected by neonicotinoids. You see, even telling people around the world things like this is a great way of being “Green.” This year Earth Day is on April 24th, Sunday. What are you going to do for EARTH DAY? 

Siddarth, Helping Ninja, Age 11, College Wood Elementary, Carmel, IN

Science World, Current Science, Chemistry News: Bees vs. Pesticides Volume 74. No.9 March 5 2018

It’s Almost Pollinator Time!

It’s almost that time!
You can help your kids can get excited about helping pollinators – wildflowers are sooo easy to grow – almost impossible to fail! 
Want to know what to plant to attract and help our pollinators in Indiana?
Our favorites that we had great success with last spring were Zinnias, Bluebells, and Holly Hocks.
Find out how here with this awesome a guide from Purdue University: 
 

Help Children Want to Help the Earth

Help children develop a lifelong appreciation for nature! 

Help us teach children to  connect with nature and learn to love the world we live in – that way they will want to learn how to help it!

Children are spending more and more time indoors, and not reaping the benefits that young persons can from being outside! Like exploring new textures and sensory experiences – which helps improve motor skills and teaches them to be scientists – learning  how the world works and finding happiness through doing it! Not to mention the mental and health benefits of fresh air and sunlight, in the form of. Vitamin D. What are you waiting for?  Let them get outside and explore! It’s that easy!

Join the Initiative! Share your pictures with us, or post and tag #helpingninjas

According to Early Head Start, National Resource Center:

“There  is growing consensus among educators, health and mental health professionals, and other child advocates that this trend has significant adverse effects on young children’s health and development. For example, Richard Louv, a child advocacy expert, worries that children are disconnecting from the natural world, a condition he calls “nature-deficit disorder’. According to his research, nature-deficitdisordercontributestoa rise in obesity, depression, and attention disorders, and as young children“spend less and less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically….” Read the full article: https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/tta-system/ehsnrc/docs/ehs-ta-paper-14-outdoor-play.pdf

Helping Ninjas at the Beach

Age Appropriate Tasks

Kids Can Learn to Help!

Teaching our youth how to help might be the most important thing we can teach them. This six-year old little helping ninja enjoys helping with dishes.  Join the initiative and teach your kids to be helping ninjas -highly skilled at helping! Join us today and post or send us a picture of your helping ninja (childs’ face do not need to be seen) – only the act of help. Tag #helpingninja

Asking children to help is really easy!

Age appropriate tasks are excellent at building character, creating a sense of responsibility and helps children feel like they are on a team. By giving a child a task, they are successfully going to be able to complete and do wonders – and can produce happier children.

Join our initiative and help us educate our youth on the importance of helping each other, the planet and ourselves. Start with a simple task, like washing dishes…teach your child to become highly skilled at helping!

 

 

If you need help determining which task is age appropriate for the child you are wanting to teach the importance of helping, please email us and we will be glad to assist you: [email protected]

Read this great article that appeared in Todays Parent Magazine August 2017

https://www.todaysparent.com/toddler/6-ways-to-get-kids-to-help-out-at-home/?utm_content=bufferadb66&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 

 

Power of Plants: Clean Air In Your House

Accept the Helping Ninjas Mission: Learn about or even help a child actually get one of the listed plants in the article below, and help to clean the air!   Learn, Help & Share, tag #helpingninjas with any of the following tags #cleanair #powerofplants #scienceiscool

Did you know that plants can clean the air? Plants convert carbon dioxide into oxygen through the process of photosynthesis. Kids like to learn about air-purification & how indoor plants play a role, and absorb many gases including carbon dioxide! Helping Ninja Kids thinks this is really cool!

See a list of plants that can actually help clean your air in your home! The below link will take you to a great article about the power of plants in your home!

See List of Plants In this Article: 

https://www.tylertolman.com/health-articles/indoor-air-pollution/

Do Indoor Plants Really Clean the Air? Learn about air-purification capacities of indoor plants have found that plants can absorb many other gases in including carbon dioxide. Read more here: https://www.livescience.com/38445-indoor-plants-clean-air.html

 

 

Can Indoor Air Can Make Kids Sick?

Accept the Helping Ninja mission, get outside and play! Post a picture and tag #helpingninjas #winter #fun #heatlhykids

A Helping Ninjas mom recently ran across and article mentioning the importance of getting outdoors – it helps to give clarity, because of the stimulation oxygen to the brain fresh air can provide and it actually helps to boosts the immune system! We should all be trying to get outside and enjoy the benefits of playing in the winter months and most importantly, lets help to get our kids outside! Studies show that indoor air is actually making us sick.

Read more here….

http://kidstraveldoc.com/winterchildrenstaying-healthy/

 

 

 

Playing In the Snow is Good For Kids

Studies show that kids can develop fine motor and sensory skills, just by playing in the snow! And, it stimulates creativity! And cold air is a great lung cleanse! We need oxygen to produce white blood cells that can fight off germs – this is why fresh air is so good for us!

Accept the Helping Ninja Mission and get your help encourage your children to go outside in the snow! Kids love to play in the snow, but not if they are freezing! They won’t last longer then a few minutes if they get snow in their boots, or collars, or pants get wet! So, just be sure they are dressed warm enough, children have smaller bodies then adults, so sometimes need more layers.

101 Snow Games to play with your Kids: https://www.care.com/c/stories/3931/101-snow-games-and-activities-for-kids/

Guidelines To Keep Children Safe in Cold Weather: To learn more about safety guidelines to keep a child warm in the winter, click on any of the link:

https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/news-features-and-safety-tips/pages/Winter-Safety-Tips.aspx

 

Indoor Air Can A Child Sick? Read more here: http://kidstraveldoc.com/winterchildrenstaying-healthy/

http://kidstraveldoc.com/winterchildrenstaying-healthy/

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