Fun at Home

Family Fun’s website has printable templates for all the holidays. We trace them onto construction paper for window decorations or garlands. Check out the Halloween templates for pumpkins, ghosts, black

Print out some fun Halloween coloring pages at an unlikely site - LandOLakes.com!  You'll find four adorable coloring sheets to choose from to get young ones excited for Halloween!   Get out your

Ocean Spray has a nice section of their website called "Ocean Spray Kids"   (Go to Ocean Spray's website and click on Ocean Spray Kids in the middle) that has crafts and recipes including:

We've been celebrating events associated with International Peace Day.  This website offers wonderful tips for families to participate all year long in peace projects around the world!

Our town had a fishing derby and it was great fun.  When we were there, they had flyers and information from Kids All American Fishing, and at their website I found this great fishing derby locator. 

My kids adore this PBS show, and it's really well done.  I also love it because it comes on at 6:00pm, just around the time I need to start getting dinner going.  - Guilt-free TV when you need it

My kids love to draw and write - they often made me "books" of their creations with the stapler and lots of construction paper. Then they each got an Illustory and there's no going back to the

We're a family of art lovers...so we're always looking for galleries to see the latest works from artists.  Art Forum is an amazing resource to find out what's going on in the world of art! 

Believe it or not, after a long day at school my kids are still waiting for me to come up with an art project - I guess it's their way of decompressing from a day of trying to be good little students. 

If your family is like mine you have a whole summer's worth of sea shells collected throughout the house!  Put those summertime treasures to work with a little Elmers glue and a bit of creativity! 

If you’re into crafting, check out the Halloween crafts you can do with kids at Martha Stewart, like the tissue-paper garland and the glittered pumpkins. When I see new crafts I want to try, I print out the

Keep them at the table a little longer with these fun, customizable placemats from DuringDinner.com.  Click on Placemat Maker at the upper right and it let's you personalize the placemat with names

This website will never let you forget a birthday again!  You can register up to 25 birthdays, and receive an e-mail reminder for each birthday either three, seven or 14 days before the date, along with gift

Starting in October on Nick Jr. called, "Ni-Hao, Kai-lan".  As an Asian American myself married to a Caucasian man, we have two daughters who are bi-racial and I am so excited for this new show. 

We got some of these in a birthday party goody bag and have been addicted ever since. Wikki Stix are yarn & wax sticks that stick to each other as well as most smooth surfaces with a touch of the finger

If your daughter likes Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies books, take a look at the free fairy printables on her website. Activities include a fairy code worksheet, ideas for party food and games so that

I thought this website was interesting.  In my opinion, as a whole it’s somewhat alarmist, but I did think they raised some issues that are important to think about when I’m planning birthdays. 

I was looking at Domino’s website for something and came across this list of birthday ideas. I know you can find this stuff all over the web, but after reading a few, I was really impressed with their ideas

My Family has found the HBO Classical Baby Videos educational for both parents and children.  The art and music are beautiful.  There are 3 separate videos available for purchase however they come in a

Great craft for birthday parties, for party favors, or for an activity while traveling! Will keep those little girls occupied.  Great for brownie troops too!  IT Bows by Debbie allows you to customize

If you and your kids are into beading, order a copy of Oriental Trading Company’s catalog Sensational Beads.  It’s easier to look at everything they have in the catalog rather than on the website

Want to eat a a semi-ok restaurant with the kids and need something to keep them occupied while they wait for their food? Print out some of these adorable Bingo games from Real Simple. Bingo Games available include:

Want to find a public golf course to introduce the kids to golf? Check out Golf.com's course finder. You can search by state, proximity to a ZIP code, course type [public, semi-private, resort, military, etc]

Want some classic family fun with mini golf but aren't sure if there's a course near you? Check out The Putting Penguin! The Putting Penguin lists miniature golf courses by State and Town, along with reviews

Make Your Own Cards Kit was a great gift my daughter received, and she’s had lots of fun with it. It comes with 20 cards, made with nice heavy cardstock, and then tons of different diecut shapes that you

Flax Art & Design is an amazing creativity products store! They have beautiful journals, art materials, kids' award winning games and arts & crafts products. Things like: Paint your own umbrella kits

Check out this website for Magic Tree House games, printables and news about the series.

Are your kids fans of the The Magic Tree House book series, like us?  Then check out Magic Tree House: The Musical.  It’s a Broadway-type musical written by the author’s playwright husband

This is a really cool tutorial on how to make coloring pages from your own photos! Really neat! Find even more coloring pages and activities with these other tips: Classic Book Printables, Gorgeous Jan Brett

Jan Brett, the renown Illustrator of The Mitten, The Umbrella, The Three Snow Bears, Honey... Honey... Lion! and many others, has a fabulous website with over 4,000 pages of free activities, coloring

If your daughter likes Daisy Meadows' fairy books - Rainbow Fairies, Jewel Fairies, Weather Fairies, Party Fairies, Pet Fairies, Funday Fairies, Dance Fairies and more - then you need to visit this website!

Did you know that with your Netflix membership you also get “instant viewing” capability?  For each $1 of your monthly plan cost, you get an hour of instant viewing, where you can watch videos on

Animal Alphabet Songs, by David Polansky, a Boston-area kids performer, is a terrific CD to listen to with your kids.  There’s a song for every letter of the alphabet, and each is about a different animal:

PBS' series, Word Girl, has a fun website with many printable activities.  Get ready for back to school with some fun printables, including: Coloring Pages Bookmarks Word Games Other activities are

I put these in my daughter's lunch box one day at school and she came home raving about them!  I even sneak them in her camp lunch box to surprise her.  Lunch box jokes & notes are a great surprise

My husband and I have fond memories of going to drive-in movies when we were little.  The kids were intrigued by the thought of going to a movie "outside."  But finding a drive-in movie theater

Birthday in a Box is another cute website where you can order all your party hats, favors, etc., and they carry a ton of different themes.

Random House's Golden Books' website has a nice section called "Print Factory" with lots of cute printables for younger ones.  Over 50 printable coloring sheet topics include: Learning

This Canadian Company, Name Your Tune, produces personalized music CD's with your child's name.  When I didn't see my oldest daughters unusual name listed, I emailed the company to ask

Rotten Tomatoes is a great site for getting movie reviews on both current and video movies.  They consolodate all the top movie reviewers and list their reviews creating a realistic view of what people

Birthday invitations can be expensive and not-so-personal.  But on Snapfish, you can create a very personalized birthday invitation for your child!  Having a firefighter themed birthday?  Take a picture

We have a bunch of the Boo Boo Buddies [I got mine from drugstore.com] and I have seen Boo Boo Bunnies in the stores for about $7. But then a friend of mine showed me how to make my own. The link above is to

Do your little ones have a favorite character? Do they like to color? Check out coloring-book.info for some great coloring pages printables. They have over 120 characters to choose from including Babar, Cinderella

If your kids like dot-to-dot puzzles, check out Picture Dots.  You find a picture on the web and then make a dot to dot puzzle for it.  Use your kids' favorite characters or even pictures of

Check out this article on new children’s music at NPR and listen to the great songs!

We had a lot of the regular kids cds in our car but they were getting old for the parents.  Then one day we heard Roger Day's "Ready to Fly" on one of our local college radio stations that has

I purchased some wonderful travel journals from madallie.com...and it made my trip with my grand daughters really much more fun. We did lots of arts and crafts and wrote down all the events we participated in. What

Wee Sing CDs and DVDs is the one single thing I miss the most since my kids got older. We love music (I guess every family does) and we have dozens of CDs and DVDs, but the Wee Sing line is by far the best, hands

My 7 year old loves Highlights Magazine, but it is a little too much for my 4 year old.  Then I found out about Highlights Hidden Pictures Playground.  What a great magazine!  Tons of the classic

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