Document what your kids and you love this year! This simple Valentine’s Day project creates written declarations of love on hearts arranged in the shape of your choice.  Families with preschoolers and elementary aged children can focus on the message {read more}

Earth advocates are pushing every business, household and activity to go green and playtime is no exception. In addition to that green apple, a green hour a day keeps the doctor away. That’s the gist of the book, The Green Hour: A Daily Dose of Nature {read more}

Develop kids' thinking skills with The Category Game. This thinking game can be planned most anywhere – in the car, while waiting in line, at the dinner table. The Categories Game is easy and can be adapted for most any age group. Like Family Feud, {read more}

Need educational activities for kids to stay busy and engaged for long periods of time? Part engineering experiment and part artistic exploration, structure building can be accomplished using everyday items from the kitchen, linen closet and recycling {read more}

When choosing art activities for preschoolers, plain paper has distinct advantages over coloring books  and coloring pages that are printed with an image. It turns out that a simple white sheet of paper is more educational and more age appropriate for {read more}

June is Potty Training Awareness Month. Many parents automatically associate potty training with the use of rewards such as candy, stickers or stars. But it’s possible to teach kids to use the potty without any tangible rewards at all. In fact, some {read more}

May 20 celebrates the day that the International Bureau of Weights and Measures was established in 1875. Parents can teach kids to notice measurement concepts by trying one or more of the hands-on “around the house” activities listed below. One of {read more}

Courtesy of Autism Society Have you noticed the ribbon with colorful puzzle pieces? It may be on car bumpers, pinned to shirt collars or may show up on websites and billboards. The puzzle of autism affects more and more families each year. April is Autism {read more}

Photo by Idaho Editor What can we learn by watching a documentary about the first year of life of four babies? Although the “Babies” Movie will most definitely be viewed as adorable, viewers may gain some interesting insights about child development, {read more}