My experience: kids will find the magic all by themselves. "Daddy, daddy, the washing machine is spinning SUPER FAST [1], come and look!" "Daddy, I found an E

My experience: kids will find the magic all by themselves. "Daddy, daddy, the washing machine is spinning SUPER FAST [1], come and look!" "Daddy, I found an EGG in the PLAYHOUSE![2]" "I'm going to clean the leaves off the bridge with the leaf-blower! Watch me!" I think the trick is to acknowledge the magic they're finding, encourage them, and share in it if invited (which will be often). Try to give children as much unstructured play-time as practical. Have a read of http://www.nurtureshock.com/ http://www.nurtureshock.com/ for the science behind this, but the tl;dr is "kids are hard-wired for learning, try to support them, rather than scheduling every minute of every day". [1] new 1200RPM front-loader [2] our chickens free-range during the day