Activities With Children

Arts, Crafts, and Fun Things to Do and Make with your children

Toss any magazine older Work them out. The problem with bad weather is that children don’t get enough exercise. Play “freeze dance” stopping in position when the music goes off. Pile up pillows and encourage the kids to gallop over them on hobbyhorses. Get out the tutus and do a dance show. The storm has hit and you are stuck indoors with small lightening fast children. Kids are bouncing off the walls. You’re just about to go bananas. You take a look, but the pieces to Candyland are missing. Maybe a boardgame can save you?
 
Grab some couch cushions or an large box and drape a sheet over them. Put toys and kitchenware for the kids to play with underneath. They can make a walkway to the structure with blocks. Set it up and hand out the invitations to all of the stuffed friends. It could be your dog or cats birthday, or your child’s favorite stuffed animals birthday. Decorate white paper plates for party invitations by coloring them and personalizing them. Bake up some cookies or have a popcornfest. Stretch out the preparation. Throw a ten minute party. Fill plastic bottles with whatever is on the shelf to make potions. Toothpaste, ketchup, food coloring - the yuckier the better. Add baking soda and vinegar and watch your concoction fizz. Clean out the magazine rack and have your kids clip pictures and paste them on paper. Suggest a theme, such as animals. Toss any magazine older than your toddler. Work them out. The problem with bad weather is that children don’t get enough exercise. Play “freeze dance” stopping in position when the music goes off. Pile up pillows and encourage the kids to gallop over them on hobbyhorses. Get out the tutus and do a dance show. The storm has hit and you are stuck indoors with small lightening fast children. Kids are bouncing off the walls.

 

Kids Arts & Crafts Projects ~ Fun Crafts for kids - Part 2

August 31, 2009

Kids Fun Zone and Outdoor Play Area at Janss Marketplace

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Janss MarketplaceThe children Fun Zone craft events meets the last Saturday of every month from noon to 3 p.m. at the Janss Marketplace.  children Fun Zone membership includes lifetime membership cards, free seasonal crafts, merchant discounts and birthday gifts.  Remaining 2009 dates as follows:

  • September 26th
  • October 31st
  • November 28th
  • December 26th

For more information, visit www.janssmarketplace.net

In addition to the monthly children Fun Zone, Janss Marketplace has a small outdoor play area geared towards younger children in front of the Old Navy store as well as an interactive water fountain area that is particularly fun for the children in the warmer months of the year.

Ask Your Doctor, Not The Internet

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In the age of Google, pregnant women everywhere have themselves worried sick about diseases, complications, birth defects, and traumatic labor.

LEGO playsets that never were… DUNE

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Rescue some walkmen from Marin

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Max writes in:

My former employer who does audio tours is emptying out their warehouse and is throwing out a couple hundred walkmans. They are already in a dumpster by their office and will probably be picked up sometime tomorrow. I send you this information in the hopes you know someone close to Marin (Sausalito) who might have interest enough to dig them out and save them from the landfill for mello-tronic projects and the like.

They’re located out at Fort Cronkhite in the Marin Headlands.

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Kids Events at The Oaks Mall

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children Club Is Back!! The first Thursday of each month from 10:00am-11:00am -  usually at the Outdoor Food Court Patio.  Visit www.shoptheoaksmall.com or call 805.495.2032 for details.

Upcoming Events:

Sep 3: Giggle with glee when our favorite children Club juggler comes to visit. David Cousins will be the enterainer at children Club on the Food Court Patio. Please come and enjoy!

september and then some

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I’m just excited. The neighbor’s mower is going, the trees are slightly changing, NPR on in the bedroom and a little babe humming and talking to herself on the floor. My blogging has the watchful eye of Hermione, hovering over me on the couch. This Wednesday, Hazel will be 9 months. It is cliche- but it really seems like yesterday. With a sleepless fog of the last 9 months, I am amazed at how we are making it through. Getting by and still managing to have some fun.

In the shoppe, we have started adding handmade goodness for our Christmas in September Sale. We’ll be offering free domestic shipping with a Buy One, Get One on select items. Start early and beat the browser rush! Zach has also been sewing away on some new & old favorite button bags to be used for anything- from carrying your latest knitting project, your lunch or as an eco-friendly loot bag alternative. Once I retrieve my camera from my brother’s house (where I promptly forgot it after a mere 3 sips of Pumpkin Juice(ale)) I will share pictures of the new goods.

Also for Fall, I’ll have some new Vagabond Scarves to keep you cozy as the cooler weather settles in. Yup we’re all that and a bag of chips!

Maybe I’ll ring in the season or pre-season with some sort of frothy,pumpkiny beverage.
xo

August 30, 2009

Skating Plus – Ventura

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Skating Plus, Ventura

Skating Plus is an indoor skating rink that has been around since 1984, offering public roller skating, food, lessons, clinics, birthday parties, etc.  Check their website for discount coupons.  Skating Plus is off the 101 Freeway near Victoria in Ventura, in close proximity to Golf N’ Stuff and Buena Lanes (sits to the left of Buena Lanes).

Skating Plus is located at 1720 Mesa Verde Avenue, Ventura.  Visit www.skatingplus.com or call 805.644.5515 for more information.

November 7, 2008

New Plans to Graduate Kids in 10th Grade

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The last two years of high school are generally spent preparing for college and enjoying the last hurrahs of senior year, but what if it were the first two years of high school, grades nine and ten where this took place, instead of grades 11 and 12?
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Show Off Your Cute Baby!

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Interview with the Chicken Lady 3

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