Remember back to your own childhood. Did you play classic games like tag or hide and go seek? They are a great way to get the kids outdoors. You can encourage outdoor play in your children with this list of backyard games for kids. Help your family enjoy greater happiness and health. Learn more about […]
Finally, the weather appears to be getting a little nicer. Summer time is a great time to encourage your children to spend more time outdoors. Of course, you can do the obvious, bike rides, swimming, gardening, hiking, camping, mud pies and puddles. Here are five outdoor imagination games that may spark some interest with children. […]
Sock painting is a super fun, outdoor activity to encourage the children that encourage creativity and body awareness. Head outdoors and bring a hose or bucket of water with you for clean up time. Squirt some paint on a plate and give the child a paintbrush. All I said to the kids was that we […]
This complete set of Animal Track Flashcards from A to Z are a fun, creative way to reinforce letter identification while learning about different animals. Go through each letter of the alphabet to recognize animal tracks. Here are a few other ideas to do with the cards: Enter your email below to be redirected to […]
Keep life simple. Seems easy enough right? Wrong… It is so hard to slow down these days. Children are bombarded with information overload, over scheduling and high expectations. Parents, in turn, are left to deal with managing the hectic schedules and maintaining a work home life balance. Sometimes we all just need to take a […]
We brought some crafting outdoors today with this sticks, stones and pipe cleaners activity. First we collected some sticks and rocks. We added google eyes and pipe cleaners and the kids just started creating (me too!). It was fun and somewhat relaxing to wind the pipe cleaners around the sticks. There was no expectation […]
Check out this fun, giant game of memory that you can print and play! Get kids moving and thinking with this activity. You can print the pages in color or black and white (color before you play). Watch it in action below. Download the free Giant Animal Memory game at Growing Play.
This is the second post regarding self regulation in children. The previous post discussed how we set children up for potential meltdowns with our hectic lifestyles. As parents, we need to advocate for more unstructured, free play for children to help them to develop self regulation skills. Here are a few changes that you can […]
What do you think looks like more fun? Choice A or choice B? Question #2 is what do you think your children will remember when they get older? Choice A or choice B? I find it sad when I see children all circled around a smartphone or even worse every child just staring at their […]
I just love geocaching. If you are not familiar with geocaching you basically go on treasure hunts to look for hidden canisters using a GPS device. We use an app on the iPhone to find our geocaches and log which ones we find. This last find on Friday was one of our best ever – […]