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.
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.
I like to think of the Root Vue as the see-through vegetable garden. Peekaboo. ‘Nuff said.
We have come up with five reasonably easy and still lovely gifts you can help your kid make for their mother.
Everything needed to grow lavender right in the pail. It’s a perfect child’s birthday gift, or Mother’s Day gift for grandma from a young child.
Our hero, Design Mom, turned us on to this lovely gardening book for children. The author has devised a calendar of activities for each month. Yay, the planning is done for us!
The hardest part of reading with preteens can be finding books you both enjoy. We’ve rounded up five of our favorites.
We have a few ideas for End of Year gifts to let your child’s teacher know that they are appreciated for all of their hard work throughout the year.
Michigan is full of great museums, parks and amusement parks, but we kept our list to family destinations within an hours drive of the Detroit area.
It’s not too late to start a summer garden with your kids. We point out the easy-to-grow flowers and vegetables you can grow in containers or in your garden.
We’ve found tons of great tips for making the experience of camping with the family as organized and as smooth as possible.
M-I-CCCC-K-E-WHY??? Because your kids will enjoy making snow cones with this adorable Mickey Mouse Snow Cone & Ice Shaver machine from Disney. But don’t worry, your kids won’t freeze their minnies off while making them.
If you’d like a chance to meet your neighbors and build a community on your block, a block party is a great idea. Here are 10 things to do at your block party.
The Twin Cities, (aka Minneapolis-St. Paul) has year-round recreation and more theater than any other city than NYC, all of which are great activities for kids.
Do you have kids away at camp? Are you missing them? We have some ideas for creative ways to keep in touch with them while they’re away.
Discover the unexpected activities for kids to enjoy in the beautiful Tampa Bay Area.
There are a lot of reasons for paying all that astronomical rent to raise children in San Francisco. Here are fifty.
We may or may not have squealed when we discovered that Lauren Child had illustrated the classic, Pippi Longstocking. We’re rooting for a remake of the ill-synched 70’s foreign movie series.
It is part milk shake and part pudding and all around worth the gazillion calories. And, now you too can make it at home.
You know your kid is beautiful inside and out. Now learn how baby can start paying for college.
Mir Kamin of Woulda Coulda Shoulda shares her advice for teaching children to be fiscally responsible.