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While We Stay Home: Board Games for Kids

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Our users recommend their favorite board games for kids. We asked our community what are some of the big and small things that’s helping them get through these days. Here are the 5 board games recommendations. Check out more recommendations on our Facebook and Instagram pages. Hoot Owl Hoot — Cooperative Matching Game For Kids Hurry little owls: In this color-coordinated matching game, players cooperate to help the owls fly back to their nest before the sun comes up. Help all the owls home before sunrise and everyone wins! Age group: 3–8 Amazon Link Outfoxed! A Cooperative Whodunit Mrs. Plumpert’s prized pot pie has gone missing, and now it’s a chicken Chase to crack the case! In Outfoxed, you move around the board to gather clues, then use the special evidence Scanner to rule out suspects. You have to work together quickly because the guilty fox is high-tailing it towards the exit! Will you halt the hungry hooligan before it flies The coop or will you be Outfoxed? Age group: 5–1...
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Online Summer Camps

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Yes…you read that right…”online” summer camps!! Summer is that one season we all want to spend outside of our homes and I never imagined I’d be looking for online summer camps!! But here we are… so let’s take a deep breath and embrace it! Below is a list of camps that are offering online options for the summer. We will keep adding more to the list so keep checking back. If you know of some not in the list please do let us know! General CAMP EDMO  is offering both half and full day camps for PreK — 8th grade kids. OutSchool  has a lot of options for online summer camps for kids (starting at age 3). There is a lot of variety to choose from — fashion, math, travel, art, improv, science to card games ….. YMCA of Silicon Valley  online summer camps. Camp Captivate  is offering half-day virtual camps for kids ages 5–13. They are combining live virtual learning with hands-on engagement through thoughtfully curated education kits. Virtual summer classes by City of Cupertino....
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While We Stay Home: Books Recommendations for Kids — Part II

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Our users recommend their favorite books for kids. We asked our community what are some of the big and small things that’s helping them get through these days. Here is the second set of 5 book recommendations. Check out more recommendations on our  Facebook  and  Instagram  pages. You Are New Book celebrates the joys of having — and being! — a baby:  A world of being new is waiting for little ones and the grown-ups who love them in this warm and funny book. From napping to crying to cuddling to playing, this book introduces the world to newborns (and new parents) with humor, honesty, and unmitigated sweetness.  You are New  is a timeless celebration of new beginnings and the transformative power of love. Age group: 0–6 Amazon  Link Another What if you… encountered  another  perspective? Discovered  another  world? Met  another  you? What might you do? Age group: 4–8 Amazon  Link The Good Egg Meet the good egg. He...
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While We Stay Home: Books Recommendations for Kids

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Our users recommend their favorite books for kids. Uncertain times, exhausting times, stressful time! Hope you all are keeping healthy and safe through it all. We asked our community what are some of the big and small things that’s helping them get through the days. Here is the books edition. Always Remember After Old Turtle swims his last swim and breathes his last breath, and the waves gently take him away, his friends lovingly remember how he impacted each and every one of them. As the sea animals think back on how much better Old Turtle made their lives and their world, they realize that he is not truly gone, because his memory and legacy will last forever. Age group: 3–7 Amazon  Link An Elephant & Piggie Biggie! Mo Willems, a #1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator, celebrates ten years of Elephant & Piggie in this special bind-up collection:  Today I Will Fly! ;  Watch Me Throw the Ball! ;  Can I Play Too? ; the award-winning  Let’s Go...
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While We Stay Home: Toys & Games Recommendations for Kids

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Our users recommend their favorite toys & games for kids. Uncertain times, exhausting times, stressful time! Hope you all are keeping healthy and safe through it all. We asked our community what are some of the big and small things that are helping them get through the days. Here is the toys & games edition. Fisher-Price Think & Learn Spell & Speak Sea Turtle The Fisher-Price Spell & Speak Sea Turtle has come out of his shell to help teach your preschooler first reading words. Not only do kids hear the words, they see them, spell them, rhyme them and even see a picture to help identify them! What a fun, interactive way to reinforce early reading and literacy skills! Age group: 3–6 Amazon  Link Magna-Tiles Magna-Tiles are the original 3D magnetic building tiles by Valtech since 1997. Each tile edge is magnetized so you can connect them to build anything you can imagine. If you can click it, you can create it! Age group: 3+ Amazon  Link Hape Quadrilla Wooden ...
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