How do you fill those summer days or weekends throughout the year with educational activities that will entertain your kids? How do you make sure they get enough fresh air, even when you don't have the time or effort to take them down to the local park? How do you introduce your children to your love of wildlife through a medium that this tech-savvy generation understands?

Your own backyard is your children's educational playground and your cell phone is the only tool you'll need to teach them all about the wildlife you love to watch and wonder at from home! If you're one of the 47.7 million people in the US who make their backyards a welcoming environment for wildlife, your kids will be able to learn about the wildlife that comes to you?like the birds that come to munch on those seeds you put in your feeder!

While you wait for the birds to come, teach your children the joy of sitting outside and relaxing by engaging them in a quiet activity that will occupy their time and not scare away any critters! When a bird comes, take out your cell phone and identify the bird by flipping through a guide of the most common birds in your area and reading the descriptions complete with identifying markings on crystal clear pictures. Or figure out what bird it is by streaming the sound of the bird's call!

You may have heard of the Peterson Field Guide to Birds, which has sold over ten million copies ?a recent edition of the book in honor of the founder's 100th birthday has recently been released. So get the official Peterson Mobile Field Guide to Backyard Birds for any cell phone on any server with an Internet connection and teach your children the wonders of being an amateur bird watcher and nature lover!

For an unbelievably low monthly fee, get Peterson images, descriptions and range maps for twenty of the most common birds in your area. If you take your children on a trip, take the love of nature with you! Enter the ZIP code of the area you're headed to (it's changeable each month) and have a complete guide of the most frequent avian visitors who flock to the place you're flocking to yourself!

A phone with streaming sounds capabilities can give you the added bonus of being able to identify a bird by its song. Your children may well love this feature he most! Imagine their giggles as they listen to each of the birds about which they are learning[DRG1]?and get to know instantly which bird they're viewing!

Even when the birds aren't around, you can sit down with your children on a picnic blanket in the backyard and show them all the pictures of the most common birds in your area. Read the descriptions aloud to them, or if they're learning to read, have them read it to you. Share the feeding advice you learn from the guide and plan a trip to a store that carries bird seed so that you can make your backyard into the perfect welcoming environment for the birds your children most want to see!

When you're finished, have your children complete interactive multiple choice quizzes that come with the Peterson Mobile Field Guide to Backyard Birds and see how much they've learned! Give prizes?like their own set of bird-watching binoculars'if they score really high!

Teach your children to appreciate wildlife on those slow days off from school and give your children a gift that they'll take with them their whole lives. Make it easy for them, as members of a video-game generation, to interact with their bird-watching guide and you'll find that you can hardly tear them away from it until night fall!