It’s colorful, and combines an aboriginal arts feel with 20th century cartoons.
LOL! Snagglepuss and Booboo.
Pics taken by Resa – October 30, 2016
Winnipeg, Canada
The artist is Cash Akoza & the pics above and below blow up real nice!
KIDS’ MONTH 2016
Fresh water is one of the most important things in life.
Benji & Ms. Zulu remind us in my last post, that all plants & animals need plenty of fresh water to live and grow.
SO, how can we keep it clean? Can we pollute less? How will life grow if it drinks poison?
There is one other side to this mini-mural. Looks to me like kids are sharing.
Here’s older kids, still sharing.
“Think Global, Act Local”
Pics Taken by Resa- May 26, 2016
Ottawa, Canada
The Artist: Is unknown to me. I will update when I know.
KIDS MONTH 2017
“Hi this is Benji and Ms. Zulu. We were asked by Resa to host the vegetable garden mural for Kid’s Month.”
“This is quite an honor and we are happy to assist. Of course we are hoping to get a tasty snack for our modeling work.”
“As you can see, I used to be very small.”
“Humans are omnivores and need to eat lots of veggies and fruit.”
“Dogs are canines and we love veggies and fruit, just be sure not to feed us the wrong kinds, see Vegetables & Fruits Dogs Can & Can’t Eat”
“After eating lots of healthy dog food, I got as strong as a lion.”
“Ms. Zulu is already 11.5 years old and has helped put in many vegetable gardens.”
“She taught me that you need to dig a whole lot if you want to plant vegetables and fruit trees in your garden.”
“I like to help her with it. It’s hard work but we don’t mind because the fruit of this kind of labor is sweet.”
“I love to sniff the plants and trees in the garden; they all have a different scent. I often see bees, butterflies, and even hummingbirds on the flowers.”
“I recently learned that these are important pollinators. Without them we would not be able to grow most fruit and vegetables.”
“Pesticides kill pollinators and are bad for us too; that’s why we don’t use pesticides in our backyard. Better be safe than sorry.”
“Here we are in front of a banana tree, showing the fruit as well as carrots. There are lots of vitamins in the bananas and carrots. The good news is that these are so tasty that we enjoy eating healthy in between meals.”
“So let’s dig and plant some fruits and veggies!”
❤ ⭐ ❤
⭐ THANK YOU Benji & Ms. Zulu ⭐
The garden is so happy that you came to host, that the Onion, Potato and Robin have formed a band and are writing a song for you.
The onion is the percussionist, and the potato plays guitar.
Of course the Robin is the singer!
♬ ♫ The robin is singing ♬ ♫ that if you click on any pic of ♬ ♫ Benji or Ms. Zulu ♬ ♫, you will be transported to Benji’s blog. ♬ ♫
Street Art Pics taken by Resa – March 1, 2017
Toronto, Canada
Pics of Benji and Ms. Zulu are all © Anarett Estafane. All bold, black writing in “quotations” is written by Benji & Ms. Zulu and are © Anarette Estafane
The artist:
“Of course, the garden needs water, just like you and me.”
“Ms. Zulu and I love to help with this task and always want first dibs. The water from the hose is sooo refreshing, it’s hard to resist.”
I want to remind everyone to check up on vegetables that dogs can and can’t eat. Just click on the pick below to read all about it.
ALSO, visit Benji & Ms. Zulu’s mom’s (Anarette’s) blog just click on the pic of the bee and butterflies below!
KIDS’ MONTH 2017
I found this Giraffe on Sunday. It was the Birdo I needed for Kids’ Month.
The entire mural feels like world of fun & toys.
I imagine this is a magic sock filled with creative ideas and projects.
The best is that it’s in a crevice in an alley where kids live and garbage is kept. This mini-mural works so well, the trash bins go almost unnoticed.
No one brightens cement city like Birdo!
Pics taken by Resa – March 19, 2017
Toronto, Canada
KIDS’ MONTH 2017
Puffins are my fave bird, but I’ve never met one. Inese has, on the Island of Saltee. Her photographs of Puffins are the best I’ve ever seen. Inese, Thank you for your gorgeous photos, and for allowing me this reblog on Kids’ Month!
“All people young and old, are welcome to come, see and enjoy the islands, and leave them as they found them for the unborn generations to come see and enjoy.” – Michael the First
Even after I shared two posts on my Saltee experiences I still have a lot to say. I love this place.
When we arrived to Kilmore Quay to catch our motor boat, the sea looked rough. In the days of sail, the area around the Islands was known as “the graveyard of a thousand ships”. I cannot tell that I have a brilliant memory, but this sort of information somehow always gets stuck in my head.
We boarded our boats – twelve in each – and off we went. Not wanting to get soaked in salty wate, I went inside the boat, and it was a grave mistake. The waves were rolling over the boat; a few times…
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Ste J reviews this book from Puffin Books, and I’m impressed. It sounds like a wonderful tale. Hey, did you know Ste j has 27 reviews in the “Children’s Literature” category on his blog? Book to the Future is a must follow!
Thirteen! proclaimed the clock, and then stopped striking. Tom’s mind gave a jerk: had it really struck thirteen?
For Tom – angry and alone – the stroke of thirteen brings an escape to another time.
A magical, secret time and place, where friendships await and nothing is as it seems…
Look at this particularly fantastic cover it just screams out ‘read me’, so I’m not sure why it took me so long to do just that. It wasn’t until I’d read the ending that I realised I had actually watched the wonderful BBC version in the 80’s, back when kids TV was made to be sinister and engrossing. I may have to do a post on that….
I have long been a firm believer that silence challenges the reader’s imagination and as ever I chose that medium in which to immerse myself in this wonderful book, a masterpiece the cover…
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Aarrooo… yip … bark .. roo roo… aaarooo, yip!
Who goes there? Wolf or a coyote?
I’m a coyote, but I’m practicing to be a wolf.
Whoa, just hold on there!
I’m pretty sure once a coyote, always a coyote. Check out Cindy Knoke’s pictures of coyotes that she took! Click on the pic, and it will take you to her coyotes.
I changed my mind. I’m a wolf! Yip, bark, arooo, yip.
Not so fast little buddy! I’m going to ask my cousin Wilbear. He lives on a shipping container across town.
Howdy Beary! I’d say he’s a coyote.
Well, maybe you guys aren’t Grizzly Bears?
As sure as you and Beary live in the same mural, Beary and I are grizzlies. I’d like to add if people click on the mural above, they can see how splendid it is.
Also, if you click on Cindy‘s Grizzly pic below, you will be transported to Cindy’s pics of our real grizzly cousins!
Well, yip yip, aarooo!
A big “thank you” to Cindy Knoke, a fave blogger of mine. She takes fabulous photographs, and shares them with us. Her blog is visually gorgeous and educational. She has joined with me to help make Kids’ Month into a special time.
Click on her pic, or name to visit her blog.
Pics of Street Art Bears & Coyote taken by Resa – October 25 & 26, 2017
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Pics of real coyotes and bears taken by © Cindy Knoke
KIDS’ MONTH 2017
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