Food & Home
Gardening Week: the Root Vue
I like to think of the Root Vue as the see-through vegetable garden. Peekaboo. ‘Nuff said.
Activities
Gardening with Kids: Potted Flowers
An excellent way of honoring our earth is to let it help us grow things. It is remarkably easy to start flowers and plants and even vegetables from seed. This is an excellent project for parent and child.
Activities
This is Me Journal: a perfect keepsake gift
The children’s activity book is also a keepsake for mom. It encourages and captures your child’s drawings, writings, dreams. You can help your child spend the upcoming year journaling her memories.
Young Child
The Best of the Tooth Fairy
Ever wonder where the Tooth Fairy comes from? What’s the going rate for a lost tooth? Find out and let us know what the fairy pays in your ‘hood.
Party & Play
Children of the World Memory Card Game
‘I Never Forget a Face’ is a fabulous matching game. The sweet and colorful illustrations of children from Tanzania, India, Iraq, and Israel, to name a few, beat pixels any day.
Products & Services
Music for a Green Planet
Every day should be Earth Day not just April 22. This album applies jazz style music to familiar children’s songs with earth friendly lyrics.
Holidays
Easter Traditions and Ideas
We found a few clever ideas for Easter that you can incorporate into your Easter celebrations.
Family Fun
Great Children’s Books
March is National Reading Month and what a better time to highlight some of our favorite books and ask for your favorites.
Holidays
Five Great Children’s Books for National Reading Month
March is the month of National Reading and we have some book recommendations for your kids that we think you will love.
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Gripping Voices
The Langley Schools Music Project are recordings from the mid-1970s of an untrained children’s chorus singing some of the best music of our generation. Their voices are raw and powerful.
Crafts
Crafting With Kids: Adorable Stuffed Creatures
I’m not an accomplished crafter but I was able to make these “softies” with the kids and have fun while making them. Here’s how you can make them too.
Activities
Kids Photo Scavenger Hunt
This activity is good for burning a full hour of daylight. Bonus! No mess involved and very few supplies needed. I highly recommend this activity.
Crafts
DIY Skirts For Your Little Girl
Three ideas for homemade skirts that require marginal to moderate sewing and could be done with the help of an older child.
Crafts
The Easiest Valentine’s Day Crafts for Kids
We’ve put together a collection of Valentine’s day crafts that have one thing in common– They are simple and easy to make.
Holidays
Celebrate National Penguin Awareness Day With Your Kid
Penguin Awareness Day is a day to celebrate the penguin. Here are five ways you can celebrate penguins and their waddling cuteness with your lil’ penguin fan.
Crafts
Organizing Kid’s Craft Supplies
I love all the possibilities a set of craft supplies represents for projects with the kids. Here are some tips for keeping things neat.
Activities
Mad Libs For Kids
I love the vocabulary lesson these books give my kids. It’s fun to hear them come up with different parts of speech. Give them a try with your kids.
Crafts
How to Make Paper Snowflakes
Paper snowflakes are an easy and fun craft for kids of all ages. Get started with these simple how-to’s.
Holidays
3 Simple Ways to Make Thankfulness a Family Tradition
Start a new family tradition this year with our kid-friendly suggestions for giving thanks.
Crafts
Simple Fall Leaf Crafts for Kids
Fall is here and the leaves are turning — and we’ve rounded up our favorite leaf crafts for kids.