A Simple Birthday Scavenger Hunt at the Playground 🦖
Incorporate the theme of your playground birthday party and make it more exciting with a simple scavenger hunt!
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Recommendations suitable for 2 year olds!
Stoic Happiness on the Camping Spectrum 🏕
Having a hard time convincing your kids to go camping? Well, read on for one MORE reason you can use to convince them.
Intricate Database of Awesome Playgrounds 🚸
Playgrounds are awesome. But how do you find the good ones? It's high time we had an objective playground ranking system.
Teach your Pre-Schooler to Bike 🚲
Last weekend we had a couple big Spreadsheet Awards in our family. Our two younger kids learned how to bike without training wheels!
Inspire Your Little Scientists with Ada Twist 👩🏾🔬
Learn about being a young scientist, the good and the bad, in this rhyming book "Ada Twist, Scientist"!
Spreadsheet Awards: The Baby Memory Book for Nerds 🏆
As with most things in life, keeping track of your baby's milestones is better and more fun with a spreadsheet.
The 77 Best Kid-Friendly Books That Are Educational AND Awesome 📘
Reading any book will surely contribute to your children's knowledge and skills, particularly in the areas of language, vocabulary, listening, attention span, and reading itself. This is great, but why not help your kids in these areas plus additional educational areas (such as math, technology, life, science, engineering, equity, art,
An Amazingly Simple and Fun Board Game 🖐
My kids recently re-discovered Spot It! and have been playing it a lot the last few weeks. It's surprisingly great for young kids!
Conceptualizing Large Numbers With Jelly Beans 𐄡
Understanding big numbers and what they really mean is tough. "How Many Jelly Beans?" is a great book for helping with this!
Teaching Through Song 🎵
I can't think of a better way to engrain information into a human's brain than through song. How would any of us have ever learned the alphabet without music?
Four Fun Modifications of Catan That Work with Young Kids 🪵 🧱
Even the setup of Settlers of Catan can be complicated. For it to work well with younger kids, it's best to start with a simpler version.
Educational and Still Fun After Countless Iterations: "Ten Apples Up On Top" 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎
"Ten Apples Up On Top" is one of my favourite educational books for babies and toddlers.
3 Ways to "Travel" Without Leaving Home 🏝
After being cooped up due to the pandemic, you're probably wishing you could go on an adventure or relax on the beach. Why not try a virtual trip?
The 17 Best Board Games for Kids AND Their Parents 🎲
Get your kids to eat their dinner with gamified, time-limited rewards 🥦 → 🍬
I've noticed the last few days, maybe longer, that my two younger kids (2.7 and 4.5) haven't been doing a great job of finishing their dinner.
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