Playful Parenting: Bringing Play to Every Day

Playing in Nature

Simple, fun and important for your child’s growth

Nurturing Happy, Healthy Kids

The Power of Social-Emotional Learning

Playful Parenting: Bringing Play to Every Day

Sometimes raising kids is fun and rewarding. Sometimes it’s hard and exhausting.

Either way, doing your best to maintain a playful attitude helps – making the good times even more joyful and the tough patches more manageable.

Hands-On Play

Glue Gun Fun

There’s no substitution for hands-on exploration. Letting kids (safely) experiment with real tools, such as a glue gun, provides opportunities to build confidence, independence, creative thinking skills and more.

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Make Your Own Eyeball Wall at Home

If you’ve visited our new special exhibit, Monsters on Summer Vacation, you’ve likely seen the Eyeball Wall, a chalkboard wall covered in eyes that is the perfect backdrop for visitors to sketch out monster faces of their own.

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DIY Paper Tube Xylophone

Get your kids excited about exploring music by making your own paper tube xylophone. Or, make a few and start your own xylophone band!

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Build a Gnome Home

Spark your child’s imagination and creative thinking skills by building a whimsical gnome home. Make a single home or an entire village.

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PARENTING TIPS WITH KATY SMITH

SUPPORTING A CHILD'S PLAY

Playful Mindset Turns Chore Time into Play TIme

There’s no way around it: There are always chores to do and errands to run.
Those responsibilities don’t have to be a drag on an otherwise lovely day. What if, instead, they became a way to engage with kids and have some playful time together?

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