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Why the Slackline is My Kids’ Favorite Backyard Activity

One summer we bought a Slackers slackline for the girls thinking core strength would be good for everyone. What I didn’t plan on was it being so much FUN and it being the kids’ favorite backyard activity for months and months and months. Slackline for Kids The slackline stretches between two trees like a tightrope but is stretchy and bouncy. You […]

Yoga for Kids: Practice, Books, Videos, and Games

Yoga benefits kids as well as adults. Get your children interested in yoga with picture books, games, and videos. They’ll develop your children’s interest in starting their own yoga practice. Doing yoga with kids is a wonderful way to get in quality time. It: builds strength improves flexibility develops breath control and awareness relaxes and calms develops coordination increases body awareness improves mindfulness […]

DIY Backyard Obstacle Course for Your Kids

Get kids active and outdoors with a do-it-yourself (DIY) backyard obstacle course. Obstacle courses build important gross motor skills, develop muscles, develop coordination, help motor planning, increase endurance, increase confidence, basically, all the benefits of outdoor play and physical activity that you already know about. Let each of your kids (or their friends) invent a […]

fit4Schools: Movement and Healthy Lifestyles in Schools

Research proves that movement is an important part of learning. Not only as a teaching tool (kinesthetic learning), but as a way to stimulate the brain for improved learning. Now, a new, free website filled with teacher resources and lessons, fit4Schools, hopes to contribute positively to movement in schools and to educate students about healthy lifestyles. fit4Schools is a health […]

5 Active Indoor Ideas for Kids

Well it’s getting colder around here which means that sometimes the kids need to find active indoor things to do. (Of course, outdoor things are possible, too. It just isn’t always as easy to convince the children to bundle up who are now tween / teen as it is to let them burn energy inside.) Anyway, […]

Fun, Active Summer Activities for Kids

School is out for the summer! With the warm weather here, families are looking for ways to keep kids entertained and active during the summer. That means you’ll need ideas for fun active summer activities for kids Toys“R”Us, Hasbro and Duracell are teaming up to show you the excitement, energy, and attitude of the Nerf brand, available […]