
Open the Door to Outdoor Fun
- by Dana Smith Bader
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in OTR Blog
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When I was a child, except for the mandatory school hours indoors, I spent most of my time outdoors. We used to live right near the beach, and the sandy shore and sea were my playgrounds. I used to do cartwheels in the sand, collect shells, and poke a long stick at anything strange and wonderful, living or non-living, that I discovered in the sand or in the shallow pools of water that collected between the rocks. I also had quite a collection of hermit crabs I dug out of the sand. One day, I even collected a mostly dead snake in a jar, filled it with sea water, and brought it home as a treasure for my mom. She was not as fascinated as I was with my latest discovery.