Create a Backyard Challenge

With busy schedules it can be hard to find time to spend with the kids. Now that summer is here, take a moment to find ways to enjoy the weather with them. A backyard challenge is just the kind of activity that will keep the entire family active all summer long. How often does your [...]

Small Summer Activities to Do With Kids

A lot of people feel that the summertime is all about going on vacations, tanning and spending lazy days swimming. While these things are great summer activities, there is much more that can be done during the months of summer. This is especially true for those of us with children. Below is a list of [...]

Screen Free Summer – Activities Ideas

As the long and dreary months of winter begin to come to a close, parents begin thinking about summer activities to get their children involved in. Summer activities provide children with something to do when they’re out of school for a few months. Not only are summer activities fun, but they also give kids the [...]

Kids Crafts Ideas on a Budget

We all love crafts! They are a great way for kids to learn fine motor skills, and express themselves creatively, but being crafty can put a strain on your pocketbook at times. Going to the store to buy supplies for each and every craft project, just isn’t practical. Which is why, it’s important to learn [...]

Earth Day Craft Ideas for the Whole Family

Earth day is a day the entire family can enjoy together. You can use this day to teach your children about caring for the earth. Consider also joining together for a few earth day crafts. Here are a few to consider. #1 Nature Hike/Art Project Go on a hike and have each person in the [...]

Homemade Peanut Christmas Ornaments

How cute are these?!!! This crafty blogger strung up some peanuts, embroidered them a little felt scarf, gave them a face with a sharpie pen, and fitted them with a crown. Adorable! Visit What Makes Me Happy for instructions.

Christmas Bird Count

I stumbled across a great winter, holiday TV free activity on The Green Hour today. Apparently this is a century long tradition: The Christmas Bird Count, sponsored by the National Audubon Society. In 1900, the founder of the Christmas Bird Count, Frank Chapman, decided to turn an outdoor Christmas tradition on its head. Instead of hunting [...]

Play With Remote Control Toys Indoors in the Winter

Here in Indiana the temperatures were cold the last couple of days. Wind chills of below zero made sure no one wanted to go outside for any length of time, let alone pull out the remote control toys for an RC adventure. There’s not even any snow to create a removal project for your “snowplow [...]

Crafty Kids Project – Rainsticks

What are rainsticks? According to Wikipedia a rainstick is a long, hollow tube which is filled with small baubles such as beads or beans and has small pins or thorns arranged helically on its inside surface. When the stick is upended, the beads fall to the other end of the tube, making a sound reminiscent of a [...]

Parental Controls Are There to Help You

Television, movies, music, video games, and the internet- all these forms of media have expanded our world and brought information and entertainment to millions, with all this unlimited information however comes danger. Media consumption among our children is at an all time high. Children are exposed to the internet and television at home and at [...]

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