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hype_borderA couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Kelsey of Naya Organics at a workshop she was teaching on organic body products.   While there, I also had the opportunity to sample some Naya products and I was impressed both by the products and Kelsey’s commitment to creating a simple and organic body care line.

Naya Organics products are founded on the philosophy of “Less is More” when it comes to your skin.  Everything that Kelsey creates is natural, organic, sustainable, and of course, cruelty free.  As our skin is our largest organ, what you apply to it is very important to your health and well being.

The Naya line consists of body scrubs, balms, and oils in a range of scents and essential oil benefits.  My favorites are the Bloom organic body scrub, which includes jasmine (my favorite!) and lavender buds for a calming combination; and the Linden Flower body oil.  The body scrubs are moisturizing without being greasy and the body oils absorb quickly and both leave just the right amount of scent on the skin.

Naya offers sample packs of the oils, scrubs, and a sampler with the entire line in addition to the full sized items.   Naya Organics products are available at select stores in the Bay Area and in several states, in addition to online.  Find more information and the full product line here.

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Of course building a paper town doesn’t have to include a geometry lesson (they also calculated the volume of their buildings) but it is a fun way to get kids to express their creativity by decorating the buildings and talking about the things they would want to include in their own town. 

Putting buildings together is a test of fine-motor skills, and if kids are working on a town together they’ll need to negotiate what goes where and why. 

Get started with the house printables from Kids Activities Blog. They’ve got a “plain” roof house and a “fancy” roof house to choose from. Just print, color, cut out and assemble. 

You might want more than just houses in your little town, though, so I went hunting for some more printable templates you can use to make different kinds of buildings. 

Brother has printable skyscrapers, cars, people, trees and lights (shown above) that are meant to be printed in color buy you can do them in black and white so kids can color them in if you want.

Printablee has another colorized set of paper buildings including different kinds of houses and something that maybe looks like a church or school. 

If you’re willing and bale to pay for printables to use in your paper town, there are lots of great ones available on Etsy. Ludlow Prints has a collection with a school, grocery store, bakery and other buildings, while Paper Fun By Yumi includes things like a hospital, fire department and police station (essential if you’ve done a community helpers unit!). 

Tiger Bee Learning has a printable set with 20 different buildings, including a bank, library, museum and zoo to name a few, as well as a blank template for kids to design their own buildings. Once you have the basics of making a piece of paper into a 3D building down, kids are sure to want to make their own buildings to add to the town. 

Older kids can also write about why they picked the buildings they did, and littler kids will have fun building their town over and over again. 

[Photo: Brother]