Inside/Outside Activities
Rain, rain, go away and all that. Cooped up in the house today? Check out our ideas for fun indoor activities to keep your kids from helping you pull out your own hair.
25 Ways to Have More Fun at Home. That’s a lot of fun, friends.
I love coming up with fun and clever ideas for fun things to do with my kids, and the rewards are two-fold: 1) they have a blast, and 2) I feel like Mother of the Year (albeit briefly, but let’s …
Happy Trails! Get outside and enjoy the seacoast’s beautiful outdoor walks.
Looking to enjoy the great outdoors this weekend? Check out our recommendations for a family outing along some of the seacoast’s most beautiful walking trails and nature centers. It’s a great way to walk off all that extra pie, too! …
Looking for Some Family Fun? Try Geocaching!
Looking for something to do with the kids at home or on vacation? Try geocaching (pronounced geo-cashing), a scavenger hunt with a high-tech twist. What’s Geocaching?Geocaching is an outdoor game that uses a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver. It’s an …
Inside Activity: Photo albums. Ahh, the memories.
Here’s another activity that I keep in my bag of tricks for when the kids are “booooored” and having “nothing fuuuuuun to doooooo”. And this one is free with no assembly required (although there may be some “re-assembly” required depending …
What to do when it’s not a beach day on Cape Cod?
So you are vacationing on Cape Cod. You have a cottage, house, or even worse, a hotel room full of kids, and it is NOT a beach day! You hadn’t planned for that. What now? What do you do when …
Fairy Houses 101. Welcome To The Neighborhood.
Fairy Houses are the latest craze in connecting kids with nature, and they are super fun and totally cute! Building Fairy Houses are simple and require only natural supplies and big imaginations! And of course, you have to believe in …
Homemade Activities We Thought Were A Pain. Turns Out They’re Pretty Simple.
I’ve always read about these at-home recipes for making soap or lollipops and thought, “How fun, but when do I ever have (insert obscure ingredient here) on hand?” Check out these super simple recipes and mixtures (using ingredients you definitely …
More February Vacation Activities…Does the Fun Ever End?
School’s out! Check out our picks for fun diversions over February (or really March) vacation! Animal Autographs at Great Bay Discovery Center89 Depot Road, Greenland NH (603) 778-0015Tuesday, March 1; Wednesday, March 2 and Thursday, March 39:45am-2:00pm For ages 7-11Cost: $12 for …
Inside Activity: Insta-Boutique
What do kids love more than dress-up? Dressing up in your clothes. Specifically making a mess of your closet and throwing your heirloom jewelry over their wrists and heads (and why do they do this immediately after you just organized …
Green Bowling, More Fun With Garbage
Here’s another inside activity that you can set up within minutes using every day items that you have around the house. First, gather up ten pieces of recyclables (cereal boxes, milk gallons, water bottles—no glass!) and set them up in …
Pack Your Bags, We’re Going On Vacation
Need an indoor activity? Send those kids on vacation! There’s no reason you have to actually leave the house to go on an adventure. Destination? Somewhere hot and sunny! First up, have them get into the summer spirit by changing …
Canvas Painting for Kids
Kids loooove painting, and are usually only inhibited by us moms who aren’t excited about the prospect of scrubbing paint stains from the carpet or clothes. But if your kids are at least two years old, they can most often …
Egg Hunts. Not Just For Easter.
Holidays are ripe with exciting and fun traditions, but we don’t need to wait for an entire year to enjoy them! Remember that bag of plastic Easter eggs you have stuffed away in the back of your closet? Drag ‘em …
iSpy A Treasure In A Bottle
Here’s another idea which will occupy your little ones for quite a while (love that!). The fun starts with hunting around the house for fun objects that will fit inside the bottle. Look for small toys, legos, plastic insects, beads…anything …
You’ve Got Mail
Ages 2-5 What kid doesn’t love pretending he’s delivering or receiving mail, putting letters into a “mailbox” and then finding interesting colored pieces for consumption? This is a super easy-at home activity which is really a two-for-one. What You’ll Need: …
