Fun at Home

Here are ten great ideas from the craft website Skip To My Lou for making homemade valentines.  Most of these valentines are fairly simple and would be great to make for school or friends.  (I would avoid

Planning a family reunion can be a nightmare. But the good news is that you are not alone, we can do this together. I don’t know your specific situation but I can tell you that if you will follow three

It is pinewood derby time in our house! Our two sons that are still in cub scouts have been busily designing their car and planning their strategies who winning.  The pinewood derby is a racing event for

A couple of years ago I wrote a family reunion article about our  reunion traditions and won monogrammed Lands’ End polo shirts for our extended family.   It was so fun to be able to provide

Are your kids driving you crazy because they are bored?  Here are some tricks to keep up your sleeve for days that call for a little extra fun and something new! Create a Boredom Box: Have your kids sit

Disney’s new movie Tangled was released in Nov 2010.   It is  modern twist on the traditional Rapunzel fairytale that we all grew up with – one with a modern twist With all of Rapunzel’s

Taking time to have a regular movie night with the kids  can help you to create great memories for everyone included. A  movie night can give your family some well needed time together in this world of

How To Train Your Dragon was released early in 2010 and was the first of Dreamworks Animation's releases for the year. Being the first of this studio's 3D cinematic releases it was an amazing experience visually

Despicable Me is a computer-animated 3D comedy film film that  stars Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Will Arnett, Kristen Wiig, and Miranda Cosgrove of I-Carly fame . The movie

Tiger Cubs is an exciting introduction to the scouting program for first grade boys (or 7 years old) excited to get going!   Tiger Cubs do stuff - lots of stuff - with their adult partners. This program is

If you are looking for some easy but beautiful Christmas cards to make with your kids this holiday season, here are 4 that you can share with family and friends. Footprint snowman card  One cute idea is

Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!  Since it's freezing outside and you are stuck in your house during a snow storm  why not take   advantage of the time that you can spend as a family

Don’t spend money purchasing something elaborate for the holiday table this year.  Let the kids do the honors for the family.  Decorative centerpieces can be crafted from items that you already

When you are busy working, , cooking, shopping and planning for the  Christmas holiday season you may forget to take some time out and relax with a cozy Christmas classic or your favorite animated Christmas

The Christmas holiday is such fun time for Children. Imagine the excitement on your son or daughter's face upon receiving a Personalized Santa Letter! Santa can personalize details specific to your child including:

Are you looking for the perfect love song for your up-coming nuptials or anniversary party?  This a list of the top ten love songs compiled among numerous music and wedding sites.  These songs are referred

I am such  big fan of  the Apprentice show and  especially  Celebrity apprentice. Season 11 of "Celebrity Apprentice", Donald Trump has chosen several explosive personalities. That

Making music with pipe chimes is an easy and inexpensive way to have fun with your family. My Mom saw pipe chimes more than thirty years ago and our family has been making music with conduit pipes ever since

 We just watched Toy Story 3 and I loved it! I feel like I've grown up with Toy Story. I have  19 year old nephew  and I can remember he was 3 or 4 when the first movie came out. Now my nephew  is

This website is dedicated to Halloween and it offers links to just about anything you need for Halloween, including costumes, parties, recipes, even ideas for a Halloween birthday party. Although a number

Free Printable Charts, Checklists, Schedules, & Calendars. Childrens charts, checklists, schedules, & calendars are all age appropriate. School & Home School educational charts, checklists, schedules

Kids love to celebrate Halloween. They also start thinking about Halloween early. Extend the fun Halloween season for them by printing one or more different free Halloween colorings page a day until the Halloween

Plank Road Publishing http://www.musick8.com/ has just released their newest free children's song entitled, "Peaceful".  It's a beautiful song and is just another in their long list of amazing

Here is a great site I stumbled across that offers free printable folding paper toys that you can make with your kids. The author/host, Marilyn Scott-Waters, of the website has an extensive background in elementary

Out of all the of films and shows my kids have seen there are very few that I would confidently recommend to everyone.  The entire Tinkerbell series (there are 3 so far) are all really enjoyable for the entire

Assign each family member to bring a “white elephant” gift (wrapped or unwrapped) to your family reunion or party. Everyone sits in a circle. As you read the story, they pass (the gifts) left when

The Last Song (Rated PG) is a coming of age love story, from best-selling novelist and screenwriter Nicholas Sparks (Dear John & The Notebook).    Miley Cyrus (Hanna Montana) and Greg Kinnear (Oscar

Many theaters across the nation are offering free or low cost summer movies to help keep the kiddos occupied this summer.  They will have a great time, and you won't be out a lot of money. This article

This is a BBC site where they have been conducting an experiment to find out whether brain training actually works. This particular study showed no evidence that brain training exercises transferred to other brain

A couple of weeks ago we celebrated my father’s 80th birthday.  We played lots of games that represented Dad’s favorite things, games using Oreo cookies, games with tennis balls and games with

I have found a few sites that help parents review and rate movies for their kids to watch.  I use it for myself, too.  There are some movies I've let my kids watch that I wish I wouldn't. 

8 1/2 days until school is out and summer begins- but who’s counting?  ME!!!  What a fun time of year!  Memorial Day marks the beginning of summer and the family reunion season and to help

It’s that time of year when I start panicking about Father’s Day.  I have great Dad and a wonderful husband and I want to recognize them in some special way- and no, I’m not buying them a

Imaginetoys is a great place to find just about any kind of toy you're looking for. They've set up the site so that you can search by category, such as creative & pretend, art & music, science &

You’ve sent the invitations, prepared the food and planned the activities and now your family is arriving. How do you make everyone feel welcome, relaxed and ready to participate at your family reunion? Ice

make believe you are baking cookies in Vermont, juggling with the Russian circus, painting in France, or making spagetti in Italy with real results! These kits combine "make believe" and reality

I have a favorite family reunion song- it’s upbeat and fun and you feel good when you listen to it and even better when you sing it.  It’s a little known song, you haven’t heard

Some kids may groan when they hear it is time for a math lesson, but not when that math lesson includes yummy marshmallows!  This is a fun activity that uses colored miniature marshmallows to learn about fractions. 

If your children are at the age where they have questions about the more icky topics, such as, what is ear wax, what makes my stomach growl and other various body functions, then this is the site for them. It explains

Help your Dad feel like the great Dad he is by holding a special party for him on Father’s Day. We have always held our Dad’s Day party the Saturday before Father’s Day and invited

We had the cake, the presents and the decorations but we needed something really special and unusual to help my grandmother celebrate her 95th birthday.  An official document proclaiming her

If you are looking for local easter egg hunts, try this page. you can select your state and it will give you a list of any local "easter egg hunt" that is going on.  You can also add an event if

I was looking for a neat chore chart to use with my typical grandson when I found this site.  Although I'm the grand (and he would get to go on fun trips with us anyway, as grands' greatest pleasure

I was looking for a special project for my grandkids for the Easter week they're spending with me and I thought it would be fun to make a paper mache piggy bank. I looked at a number of websites and

Inspired by the wonderful work of Dr. Seuss, this 20 page activity booklet is full of reading, math, and most importantly, fun! Includes rhyming games, addition worksheets, and other activities to keep young

Fluency in math is defined as students having automatic recall of basic facts. The on-going success of a student can be greatly hindered if Fact Fluency is not achieved. The benchmark often used on paper/pencil

Turn a handful of yummy Jelly beans into a fun learning activity.  This activity will help you teach your child about counting, sorting, graphing,and comparing in a fun and delicious way.  They won't

Everyday tasks like grocery shipping can be fun learning adventures your child.  Here are a few simple games to play with your child as you shop.  Not only will they entertain your child as you get your

For a girls camp my daughter attended, she was asked to create a “Wheel of Doom”.  The idea was that the girls would spin the wheel to determine what kind of utensil they would eat

Check out www.familyreunionhelper.com/ for some great family reunion ideas.  I was so stressed when I was put in charge of our family reunion and finally after an exhaustive web search found this great website.