Family Fun

Looking for some last minute gift ideas for the kids to make the relatives? Looking for activities to do with the whole family? Or maybe just a craft or two for the kiddos in your life? Maybe wondering how to track Santa? Or wondering how to make shortbread for when that big guy makes his way down your chimney tonight?

Well guess what? I’ve been tweeting some of my kids play ideas over on Twitter under @KidsPlay, so if you want to track Santa, have him send a personal video message to your friends or kids, I’ve got the links for you!

I’d love to see you on Twitter. Stop by and say hi to me! I’m right here: http://twitter.com/#!/KidsPlay

Thank You For Reading

I was looking at my blog stats to update my nonfiction proposal for Kid’s Play and I was stunned. Literally. Sitting on the couch, rubbing my eyes, rechecking my stats several times over as well as using different programs on the server to make sure what I was seeing was indeed correct. Wow! Thank you to all my visitors! I am both honoured and blown away by how many visitors my blog has been receiving in past months. (According to my server, we’re already over 1500 visitors for January!!! Holy smokes! Read on, folks!)

Because it would be hard for me to send you all flowers as a thank you, please accept a field of cheerful flowers:

Thank you!

It’s All Kid’s Play Website

It’s up!

The It’s All Kid’s Play (dot ca) is now up and running. If you’ve checked out the blog, you’ll find that the website is simply a bigger version of the blog.

So if you have kids or know somebody with kids, pass the link(s) along.

What is ‘It’s All Kid’s Play’? Basically it is over 700 things for kids to do to prevent the dreaded two words “I’m bored” from escaping your child’s mouth. The site is totally free and sports activities from the rules to forgotten games such as ‘Red Rover’ to instructions for crafts such as ‘Make a Grass Hair man’ to car ride games like ‘Round-Up’ to general silliness like ‘Wiggle your toes in cold, wet noodles’. The site also has a jokes page, ‘other links’ page and a book recommendation page.

So stop on by and enjoy!

Coming Soon!

Coming Soon to the Internet near you…

The It’s All Kid’s Play website. The site is just about done which means <drumroll, please> the website will be LIVE on Monday!

What is ‘It’s All Kid’s Play’ you may ask? Well, conveniently it is pretty much what the name says. It’s kid’s play! A few years ago I wrote down over 700 things that are easy, economical things to do with your kids. Your child says they are bored, you whip out the list and find something exciting for them to do. There are over 30 categories ranging from arts and crafts, to games, to car ride activities to tricky business to food fun to outside activities to… Let me put it this way, there is a pile to do.

If you are interested in a sample of what’s coming down the pipe, check out the It’s All Kid’s Play blog. Share the link with some kids or parents that you know or even try out some of the activities yourself.

Enjoy!