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Remember, we welcome comments, questions, and suggested topics at thewonderpodcastQs@gmail.com.\nS4E14 TRANSCRIPT:----more----\n\xa0\nMark: Welcome back to the Wonder Science-based Paganism. I'm your host, mark,\nYucca: And I'm Yucca.\nMark: and today we are going to talk about children's activities for springtime. In most places by now spring has sprung and there are green shoots and leafing trees leafing out and flowers and the sweet smell in the air. And the weather has become, if not mild than milder. And it's, it's just a time for celebrating spring and.\nAnd we often associate childhood with spring.\nYucca: Right. And I wanna say that before we get going, we're gonna be talking about kids, but a lot of these activities can be for kids of all ages, right? Just because we're going to be thinking about children doesn't mean you can't be your. 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, whatever age you are. Right? So if you've got kiddos in your life, that's awesome.\nAnd if you just wanna feel a little bit young at heart, then that's great too. Yeah.\nMark: Yeah, that's a really important point I think, because I mean, at least as I celebrate the Wheel of the Year when there's a focus on children around the time of the spring e Equinox, and then going into young adulthood around mayday. It's, it's not only to celebrate those members of the community that are at those stages in their life, it's also to celebrate those qualities in ourselves, right?\nWe, you know, we all still have a kid inside us and that playfulness and Astonishment of discovery and kind of wonder and awe that that comes in a childlike view of the world are great things for all of us.\nYucca: Yeah, so this time of year we've. The new life or the waking up of life happening, the popping back in a lot of our holidays have to do with this reemergence of life and newness of things. Is there anything else that, that really speaks kid to you about this time of year?\nMark: The bright colors.\nYucca: Hmm mm-hmm.\nMark: You know, the colors of flowers, the, the mating plumage of birds the, the fruit trees leafing out and flowering and we associate bright colors with this. Both with childhood you know, those kind of primary colors that are used in a lot of children's toys and so forth. But also with this time of year with brightly colored eggs and jelly beans and things like that as well.\nSo, that's something else that I associate with this time of year is just really super colorful, bright color palette.\nYucca: Right. Yeah, I see that too. And for us also, the getting back outdoors. And our climate, this really is when we can be spending lots of time outdoors again. I mean, we, we do anyways, but it's far more pleasant to do it when it's not literally freezing, right? When you can go out and, oh, you don't have to have the shoes on and you can not worry about bundling up every, you can just go out, right?\nYou don't. Make it this whole ordeal to get them all wrapped up and to get you and the, you know, you can just go, there's just, there's a, there's a freedom, there's a just sort of, what's the word I'm looking for? Like\xa0\nMark: Well, there's, there's an exuberance that goes with that, right? I mean,\nyou, you feel that soft air on your skin.\nYucca: yeah.\nMark: You know, that wonderful soft spring air on your skin and after being indoors for months,\nYucca: Mm-hmm.\nMark: that's a, a very pleasant change of pace.\nYucca: Yeah. Well, why don't we get into some of the things? Yeah.\nMark: okay. That's what I was gonna suggest. Let's do that.\nYucca: All right. Well, we were brainstorming a little bit before and came up with a huge list of stuff to get into and I'm sure that we'll miss some of the things.\xa0\nMark: will.\nYucca: but the first thing that really pops into my mind is the spring cleaning. I know you might think of this as more of like a grownup sort of thing.\nBut I think that at least for us, having the kids fully involved with all of the household activities is really important because they'