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Between after-school time, rainy or lazy weekends, sick days and -- of course -- a pandemic that forced kids to stay home for months on end, parents know that it can be maddeningly hard to keep bored children engaged and occupied. And while there's no need to feel guilty about screen time, it's understandable that kids' use of screens is one of parents' top concerns.So if you're struggling to find things for your kids to do when they're bored other than screen time, we get it, mama. This list of 20 tech-free, fun activities for kids should keep your preschooler...

  Olympic Torch Craft Celebrate the Olympic Games by making this super simple ceremonial Olympic torch craft. Create your own games in the backyard for even more fun! What You Need: construction paper tape tissue paper How to Make It: Roll a piece of construction paper to form a cone. Tape it closed. Push a sheet of red tissue paper into the cone so that the edges peek out of the top.  Layer sheets of yellow and orange tissue paper, and push them into the cone on top of the red.  Adjust the tissue paper so that it mimics a...

Art Runs Generations Deep In The Family Of Molly Wattle Boney Family by Sally Tabart Brendon Boney (aka The Magpie Swoop), Tessa Nuku (aka Tessa Thames) and Molly at home! Photo – Alisha Gore for The Design Files. Molly with her winning artwork from the TDF Design Awards, and painting at home with Tessa. Photo – Alisha Gore for The Design Files. Tessa and Brendon usually just let Molly go for whatever idea she has – 99% of the time their input gets shut down by Molly! Photo – Alisha Gore for The Design Files. Molly at home, getting ready...

Wicked Vision, Learning Resources, Little Tikes, and ZURU have been named among the winners of this year’s Outdoor Toy Awards, an awards event hosted by Toyology that made its return this year to champion the best products for kids’ and families’ outdoor play activities. Featuring ten categories, this year’s iteration of the popular awards event adopted a new strategy and format for judging in accordance with the Covid-19 restrictions that have impacted upon social gatherings for the past 18 months, allocating a judging panel of media outlets, influencers and bloggers a category each. “We did face some logistical challenges this...

Think of a comeback as a holy grail of enviable wit, ultrasonic reaction and perfect timing combined at once. If it’s good, it sizzles the person like a Sunday barbecue, stripping them down to the bone where all their initial coolness has evaporated. But it’s easier said than done. You see, making a clapback is somewhat of a form of art and we'd better learn from the best ones. So when someone asked “What’s the most memorable comeback you’ve heard in your life?” on r/AskReddit, we knew it was time to take the notebooks out. 2.6k comments later, we have...