When You Were Small
Another great Father’s Day book directed towards fathers and sons. In this sweet book, a boy and his dad’s nightly ritual includes retelling of how when Henry was small… they would use Henry as a chess piece, for example.
Another great Father’s Day book directed towards fathers and sons. In this sweet book, a boy and his dad’s nightly ritual includes retelling of how when Henry was small… they would use Henry as a chess piece, for example.
This is a sweet book about a father-and-son weekly routine that inspired a similar ritual by my husband and son. And, for that reason alone, Every Friday will always have a special place in my young family’s history.
I love innovation and this book takes the ubiquitous picture book to the next level using “scanimation” technology to make art literally move. Watch horses gallop and butterflies flutter across the pages.
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.
The hardest part of reading with preteens can be finding books you both enjoy. We’ve rounded up five of our favorites.
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!
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.
We have come up with five reasonably easy and still lovely gifts you can help your kid make for their mother.
Continuing our Gardening with Kids series, we tackle vegetables and other edibles like wheat grass, lettuce and scarlet runner beans. Enjoy!
I like to think of the Root Vue as the see-through vegetable garden. Peekaboo. ‘Nuff said.
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
Making terrariums with youngsters is not only easy but a beautifully green project.
We highlight our favorite harmless pranks to pull on kids or your partner. Our favorites are the computer pranks. Though the joke’s on you if your child is more tech savvy than you. Ha!
We found a few clever ideas for Easter that you can incorporate into your Easter celebrations.
March is National Reading Month and what a better time to highlight some of our favorite books and ask for your favorites.
March is the month of National Reading and we have some book recommendations for your kids that we think you will love.
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.