Play and learning with Lego bricks can involve more than just building. Here are 10 things kids can do with Legos. Kids Activities Blog loves Lego activities like these because they make learning fun for kids. Play and Learning Legos are a classi… - 1 hour ago, 19 May 13, 11:00am -
Kids crafts can be a lot of fun to make. A problem that I regularly incur however, is hearing a great idea and then having to make a run to the craft store to put it in place. Today we are going to empower you to use the things you already hav… - 13 hours ago, 18 May 13, 11:00pm -
This week’s pick for our best blog feature is Busy Kids Happy Mom. We are featuring an interview with Kristen today and rounding up some of our favorite Busy Kids Happy Mom posts this afternoon. Kids Activities Blog is so excited about our b… - 1 day ago, 18 May 13, 11:00am -
Lego Art? Kids will love this fun idea for Lego printing! We hope you enjoy this and and all of the other great Lego activities here at Kids Activities Blog. Lego Art My son loves painting and he loves Lego so what could be more fun than combinin… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 11:00pm -
LEGO activities typically involve building amazing creations with some colorful little bricks. But think outside the box with these LEGO learning activities for the young child. Kids Activities Blog hopes your young child feels like a big kid as th… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 11:00am -
Baby toys. As a first time mama, it can be overwhelming and intimidating to browse infant toys and try to figure out which are best for baby development. To help you out, Kids Activities Blog would like to offer this list of best baby toys for i… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 11:00pm -
DIY Crayons! Keep reading to learn about this great crayon activity to make a cool new tool for your child’s art supplies. Kids Activities Blog wants to point out that this activity is for parents to make and for kids to enjoy. DIY Crayons Does y… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 11:00am -
It’s playtime again! Our weekly kids meme is jammed packed with fun activities to do with kids. Link up your favorite kids craft, game, family-friendly recipe, learning fun or kids activity! It’s Playtime! We love the activities that are li… - 4 days ago, 15 May 13, 9:00pm -
Crayon resist art has been around since us moms were kids. It is a timeless craft for kids because all kids love this secret art project. Kids Activities Blog is curious to hear about how your child’s creativity is expressed through the use of… - 5 days ago, 14 May 13, 11:00pm -
Click on over and peruse the new site for things to do this weekend. You'll find our picks listed by age group under This Month. Feel free to poke around the site to check our reviews of interesting new art and culture around town. Then, if your c… - 22 Jan 12, 5:47pm -
As a subscriber to Kids Off the Couch, you'll also be subscribed to The Family Savvy, so please be sure your email provider recognizes our address:info@thefamilysavvy.com.We encourage you to use the site as a family resource -- it's a great place to… - 10 Jan 12, 9:51pm -
There's a new website in town called The Family Savvy. I spent the last six months creating a robust calendar-based site for families looking to interact with the city and with each other, and I am excited to share it with you. It's where I'll focus… - 4 Jan 12, 9:57pm -
Fill your Days from Now until 2012Ticket Giveaway: Family 4-Pack for OVO on February 15We've got plenty of "have-fun-with-your-family, counter-program the mall" ideas to get you through to New Year's. And just remember, if the gifting is making you c… - 21 Dec 11, 6:02pm -
Hugo - A Holiday Gift for All!Our favorite in this season's varied crop of family films is Hugo, director Martin Scorsese's sumptuous 3D adaptation of Brian Selznick's award-winning, best-selling novel, "The Invention of Hugo Cabret". At first glan… - 7 Dec 11, 7:41pm -
'Tis the season to lift our voices in song... or at least to hum along as professional singers ring out the music of the season. We love that in our diverse city we can enjoy the holiday classics in multiple ways - we can sing along with the Messiah,… - 1 Dec 11, 11:33pm -
It's not easy to explain, or even understand, why bad things happen in the world, but a new show at the Skirball Cultural Center goes a long way towards helping families turn their outrage into action. Women Hold Up Half the Sky, in town through Mar… - 28 Oct 11, 5:34pm -
A Few More Scares!Endangered Animals, Ed Keinholz Tableau and Teen DriversWe're back with a few more seasonal tidbits, and an update on our latest ticket offer (see below). In thinking ahead to our trick-or-treat plans, we were wondering when Dayligh… - 24 Oct 11, 11:15pm -
From Old-Fashioned Fun to Techno FrightsTicket Giveaway for Bring It On: The MusicalOur message for Halloween is that less is more. It's our nod to a simpler time, before the holiday got so ramped up by retailers (just when did those Halloween stores… - 24 Oct 11, 11:07pm -
iSad"Death is Very Likely the Single Best Invention of Life"For a simple and elegant statement of how Steve Jobs touched us all, head onto Facebook and witness your friends reactions to the news that Jobs succumbed to pancreatic cancer at the age of… - 7 Oct 11, 5:09pm -
I struggle with figuring out what to wear. Before kids, I didn’t know. And ten years after buying this What Not to Wear book (and gestating three humans) I sure don’t know any better. So, I’m on a quest to figure out my style along with realist… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 4:21pm -
This post about cleaning up life’s messes was sponsored by Huggies. In 2005, I purchased a refillable tub of Huggies baby wipes that I still use. Last week, I intended to purchase the latest formulation of Huggies Wipes (the ones with NEW Triple C… - 3 days ago, 17 May 13, 12:08am -
One of our local experts offered to field this question, which comes up over and over again: For the past few days my son (2) won’t stop climbing out of his crib, and I’m afraid he will get hurt! Does this mean he’s ready for a toddler bed? Won… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 4:12pm -
From the oldies files! We threw a real birthday party for Holden this year and we tried to do it on the cheap. The funny thing was that we had a great plan — some of it was even well-executed — and we still spent more than $150. Ouch! I think wit… - 4 days ago, 15 May 13, 3:42pm -
Got RSS? If you have a Google Reader account full of blogs you like to read, like I do, you probably already know that this feature of Google will be going away soon. Because I like so many blogs on Facebook, this news is not quite as devastating to… - 5 days ago, 14 May 13, 8:55pm -
I just read a novel in which one of the characters was an economist who specialized in the study of Happiness. He had created some formula, which I won’t be able to document exactly right, but the jist of it was Happiness = Reality – Expectations… - 6 days ago, 13 May 13, 6:12pm -
Happy Mother’s Day, y’all. I wanted to share this photo of my mama and me singing karaoke Radiohead Creep (see the monitor? awesome!) and remind you about our unusually high number of giveaways happening right now. New new mama? Win a breast pump… - 7 days ago, 12 May 13, 4:36pm -
Whitney and I teamed up with some of our favorite bloggers to offer you a totally high-end Canon T4i DSLR Camera 2 Lens Bundle and a funky cool Epiphanie camera bag to carry it around. We all chipped in to buy you a nice present to say Thanks and Hap… - 9 days ago, 10 May 13, 12:14pm -
This post is sponsored by Annie’s, makers of bunny crackers, and now frozen Pizza! On any given weeknight, I am working against the clock to get a healthy meal on the table during the span of a 25-minute block of television (sometimes I have only 1… - 10 days ago, 9 May 13, 9:13pm -
I was separated from my first baby, Julian, for the first hour or two of his life. While I was incredibly curious to see him again — this person whose very existence I had invented now existed in the real world! – I guess I was also very patien… - 11 days ago, 8 May 13, 6:04pm -
