Wild Willow Kidz

04/01/2026

Orange, Warwick, Wendell, New Salem or Petersham residence… when you’re doing your Earth Day cleanup remember to take pictures and send them to NQHC for a chance to win the prize!!!

My daughter and myself have donated from our businesses and I know there are a lot of other great items in the basket as well!!
Wild Willow Holistics
Peaches Boutique
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Join us for our First Annual Earth Day Challenge!

To be entered into our raffle:
Take part in any type of environmental clean up within the towns of Orange, Warwick, Wendell, New Salem, or Petersham.
Comment with a photo or text it to the number below.

That's it! You're entered!

Details below on how to participate! Keep your eyes open for flyers out around the towns as well!

03/29/2026

This is some of the real world education that I get so excited about!

Today I stumbled across a post from our local historical society page at about 11:15 AM inviting the public to the local church at noon. We already had other plans, but when I saw the opportunity to check out the inside of this old church in our town that I’ve never been into we had to jump on it! And I’m so glad that we did! Not only did we meet some people in town that we had not met before but we were able to check out this beautiful building that is usually closed to the public.
We heard stories about the buildings past, even learned about the split between the Unitarian and the congregational church that happened during revolutionary war times. This building was built in the early 1800s. but I think the best part of all was getting to go up in the attic with Clyde and a few other others to watch them wind the clock ! You see, in our town every hour on the hour the church bell chimes. We learned today that the clock is hand wound once a week and we were able to see how it works. It was fascinating!

When we came down out of the attic, someone decided to start playing the organ, and that was amazing too!

We Love learning about history in this way.
Thanks to the Warwick historical Society for posting this. I’m glad we didn’t miss this awesome opportunity. 💕




03/28/2026

Let me tell you a story about Lady and Little Jimmy….

Last year at co-op, we did an awesome Egypt unit study. Part of that unit was mummification. Each child mummified their own apple and as a group we mummified a Cornish hen.

One of the girls in the group name the chicken “Little Jimmy”. Little Jimmy sat in the mumification solution for months, and mummified beautifully! I brought it home and wrapped it in gauze with the intentions of bringing it back to co-op to show this year’s group of kids…. I set it on my mantle and I kept forgetting to bring it with me to co-op.

A couple weeks ago, I walked past it and remembered to grab it. I took it and I threw it in my co-op bag with the intention of bringing it to co-op with me the following day.

This is where Lady comes in to the story….Lady had other plans for Little Jimmy…..
Lady is not a mischievous dog who steals things so I wasn’t too worried about little Jimmy. It’s not like it was raw meat in the bag and I honestly didn’t think she’d have any interest in little Jimmy because he had been in the house for months and she didn’t seem to care…. I was wrong.🤦🏻‍♀️

Long story short, I found Lady chewing on something random laying in front of the fireplace and when I went over and picked it up, it looked like a small bone, but I couldn’t figure out where it came from so I took it away from her and thought maybe that she had something buried in the backyard that she brought in. It wasn’t until a few hours later when I walked into my bedroom to get ready for bed that I realized exactly what that bone was from…
There on my bed was a pile of gauze with googly eyes still attached and a few little crumbs of mummified chicken skin 😳

LADY ATE LITTLE JIMMY!

Fast forward to me googling, texting a few people, and eventually calling the emergency animal hospital at midnight. that was a funny conversation…. The woman at the emergency clinic who claims to have heard it all said this was a first… sure she’s had dogs eat chicken bones, but never a mummified Chicken that was a science project.😆🍗

The general consensus was to feed her some soft foods like rice to cushion the bones in hopes that they didn’t poke her insides or get stuck and follow her around for days making sure everything came out … if she showed any distress, get her right to the hospital.

I’m happy to report that she passed Little Jimmy with no problems and no need to go the the vet.
🤦🏻‍♀️😆🙄🐥🦴💩🐕🐾🥺




03/24/2026

My daughter got this for Christmas from Santa and we are loving it!
This is so much fun and extremely educational! Great way to learn about the United States!

* Not sponsor and I do not receive anything if you purchase this from Amazon. just sharing because it’s a product that we are loving!


If your family loves board games, why not combine it with something educational? The Great States Board Game is ideal for incorporating a little learning into your fun time. Find out all kinds of interesting facts about each state including birds, flowers, locations and capitals. For educators lo...

03/20/2026

What’s your HARRY POTTER house?!

My daughter and I are both Hufflepuffs!

Happy day to my fellow HufflePuffs!!

We are fiercely loyal, Loving and kind
but do not cross us 😉 🖤💛🦡

03/14/2026

Are you working on your leprechaun trap? It’s almost time to try to catch that little bu**er!

Pro tip: rollos make excellent leprechaun bait! They look just like gold nuggets!

We get pretty hard-core with our leprechaun traps in my house and Rollo’s always work to draw in a leprechaun. Unfortunately, the little bu**er always gets away with our gold!

😆 🍀

03/10/2026

This is not a program I participate in because it conflicts with my own co-op program, but I wanted to share in case other families are interested. It looks like they have a lot of fun options!


With more than 160,000 members and supporters, Mass Audubon protects over 41,000 acres of land throughout Massachusetts, saving birds and other wildlife, and making nature accessible to all. We welcome you to explore a nearby sanctuary, find inspiration, and get involved.

03/06/2026

Lego club in Warwick tomorrow! open to all ages including infant and toddler! A great way to met new people 💕
* not my event, sharing for a friend.

03/04/2026

The Warwick community home school co-op held our 3rd annual “share the love food drive “ and it was a huge success!!

We collected food and money the entire month of February and today we brought it all to the
Orange food pantry!

Today we learned that the Orange food pantry serves an average of 150 families every Thursday and that seems to be increasing with an average of about 15 new families every week.

They put us to work at the pantry and we sorted and organized for about an hour and a half! The kids did awesome and all had so much fun!
My daughter is already asking when we can go back to volunteer again.

Thanks to all who contributed to our food drive! 💕

FCCMP

02/28/2026

TIME IS ALMOST UP!

Only 13 days left to apply to the fair and there are 10 slots left! Once we hit 35 vendors application close even if that’s before March 13 so don’t wait, get your application in now before time runs out!

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