Suggested Family Activity • Summer 🏃♀️ Olympics The summer Olympics may be over but there’s still plenty of time to get your family involved in Olympics inspired activities. You can teach young children to do a flip, handstand, or a cartwheel like gymnasts or place down a piece of painter’s tape to mimic a balance beam or tightrope and let them try to walk from one end to the other without ‘falling off’. You can Read more…
Children love to draw or color the people around them, which can sometimes be an eye-opening experience for their adult caregivers! Have them try their hand at making self-portraits today to get them thinking about the different parts that make up their face and hair. Plain paper will work fine, but if you have any white paper plates, they make an excellent form on which to draw face. Crayons and markers work well but other Read more…
Elvis Week 2021 kicks off today and lasts through August 17. Held annually during the anniversary of his death, it gives people all around the world a chance to remember the music pioneer. Elvis Aaron Presley, the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, was born on January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi. His birthplace, a simple two-room home, is a tourist destination for many. (For more information, visit https://elvispresleybirthplace.com.) His family relocated to nearby Memphis, Tennessee Read more…
What do you get when you combine one of the largest Dinosaur databases in the world with the powers of Google Earth-like technology? The chance to view what your area looked like millions of years ago. You can even see what fossils are nearby. The best part is, the 3D map, dubbed Ancient Earth, is free. Ancient Earth is the brainchild of Ian Webster, the curator of the Dinosaur Database website. There, you can search by Read more…
Today is National Book Lovers Day so what better way to celebrate it than by making a visit to your nearest public library? Are you looking for lively picture books to read to your family? Family Reunion by Chad Richardson follows a young boy’s journey to understand the joy and beauty of gathering with extended family while Bethany Carr’s board book I Love My Family is created to be a short but sweet treat for Read more…
Today is National Underwear 🩳 Day so remember to wear your underwear today! Children love all sorts of humorous tales about underwear so check out some of these picture books titles from your local library today: Attack of the Underwear Dragon by Scott Rothman, Creepy Pair of Underwear! by Aaron Reynolds, One Big Pair of Underwear by Laura Gehl, and Something’s Wrong!: A Bear, a Hare, and Some Underwear by Jory John. Children’s book author Read more…
☀ We have been in the middle of a heat wave, with temperatures outside soaring into the 90s. Take advantage of the sun shining down to create some Sun Prints today. Sun prints are what happens when you leave an object on a colored piece of paper so that the sun fades the paper but there is a darker space left where the object shields the paper from the sun’s rays. To make this fun Read more…
Suggested Family Activity • Family ♥ and Friendship 👨👩👧👦 As we begin the month of August, there are several important National Day celebrations that illustrate the importantance of families and friends – Respect for Parents Day, American Family Day, National Friendship Day and National Sisters Day. Wow, that’s a mouthful! And a lot of celebrations packed into just one day! National Respect for Parents Day highlights how important it is to show your respect for Read more…
Suggested Family Activity • Tie 🍥 Dye Tie-dye patterns have been a popular Do-It-Yourself option for upgrading plain T- shirts for decades. Today, the method remains a stylish and affordable way to express your creativity with splashes of color. This weekend, why not get the whole family involved in tie-dying fun and colorful items to wear? The activity does not require many supplies – a piece of clothing and some tie dye solution are the Read more…
Every two years we get to marvel at them—no, not the superhuman feats of strength and skill from the greatest athletes in the world, but the weird and wonderful names of the many, varied Olympic sports. Here’s a look at some winning Olympic words and their origins. 1. POLO At today’s Olympics, polo is a water sport; its original form, played on horseback, left the program after the 1936 games. The British army brought the sport, and Read more…
