Trolls and Norfins

Written by Gayle Olson


These lucky little dolls withrepparttar funny little faces and wild hair were born many years ago in a town in northern Jutland, Denmark. In 1951, Thomas Dam began carving little wooden trolls, while his wife and daughter began making stuffed toy trolls. In 1959repparttar 111634 Dam family began a factory, making little vinyl trolls.

Each model was designed and made in wax which was covered with copper to createrepparttar 111635 mold forrepparttar 111636 little creatures. Thomas Dam continued to design and create until his death in 1989. Today production continues by his son Nils and daughter Lajla who makesrepparttar 111637 molds forrepparttar 111638 new designs.

Once upon a time...

The story ofrepparttar 111639 trolls began many, many years ago. A kind troll named Uras lived on a small forested island called Gjol inrepparttar 111640 Lim Fjord in Denmark. He lived in a cave with his very large family. Asrepparttar 111641 family grew bigger,repparttar 111642 cave grew smaller. Uras decided he would need to build a new and bigger cave. To makerepparttar 111643 work easier, Uras cast an old ancient spell to makerepparttar 111644 trolls bigger and stronger.

Get Your Kids Moving

Written by Laura S. Garrett, RD, LD


Are your children active? Inactivity among children is becoming an epidemic. Motivating your children to be active not only improves their health now, but it will also benefit them later in life.

Here are some facts:

* Lack of exercise is a major reason forrepparttar growing rate of obesity among children. Rather than letting your child watch TV all day, encourage him to spend time each day in play that requires him to be physically active.

* Exercise can strengthen children's bones, something they will benefit from as adults. Children who participate in weight-bearing impact sports such as running, gymnastics, tumbling, and dance have higher bone density than children whose major activity is a non-weight-bearing exercise such as swimming.

* Active children may increase their chance of becoming healthy adults. Children who enjoy being active are more likely to developrepparttar 111633 lifelong, healthy habit of being physically active. Physical activity decreasesrepparttar 111634 risk of obesity, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, stoke, and heart disease later in life. Simply put, people who are active on a regular basis tend to live longer than inactive individuals.

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