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Introducing Kids to Great Artists: Mary Cassatt

Little Girl in a Blue Armchair by Mary Cassatt

Mary Cassatt is a natural choice when introducing children to great art since she often used children and babies as the subject of her paintings. Her use of bright colors and depictions of everyday scenes from family life make her works very appealing to young children. They will recognize themselves in the pictures of a [...]

Introducing Kids to Great Artists: Jackson Pollock

With the extra time that many children have during the summer, it may be a good opportunity for introducing them to a subject that we don’t always think about: learning about great artists. Artists have a huge amount of influence on shaping history and culture and it’s a good idea to give kids a sense of [...]

Pins of the Week: Legos!

Here at Pi’ikea Street we love legos. They provide endless opportunities for fun and creativity, but we have also learned that they are great for teaching concepts as diverse as measuring and storytelling. Pinterest has an endless supply of wonderful ideas for using legos for fun and learning. Here are a few of our favorites [...]

Pins of the week: Indoor fun and Snowy Day Books

Just as we began to think that spring had sprung here in Colorado, we’ve been hit with two blizzards in the past week! This not only means some snowy outdoor fun, but also a lot of indoor time on our hands as the temperatures have plummeted. We delved into the Boredom Busters board on the [...]

Pins of the week: Books for Spring

With Easter past and so many kids on spring break, it is finally starting to feel like Spring around here. As we contemplate what to plant in the garden and dust off the grill, I have started stocking up on Springtime books at the library. Below are some of our favorite kids books for Spring [...]

Silly Tickets

PARENTS: with April Fool’s Day fully upon us you may need to be cracking down on excessive silliness. Use these printable citations from the Department of Silliness to keep those kids out of silly jail. Printable Silly Tickets

Pins of the Week: Easter Fun

Although Easter is still a week away, we’ve already gone into bunny mode around our house. The Pi’ikea Street Easter board is packed with so many fun Easter ideas that it was difficult to even know where to start! We have had a lot of fun trying out some of the many wonderful ideas out [...]

10 Tips for Visiting Museums with a Toddler

Before having kids, my husband and I often spent our weekends visiting museums and art galleries together. But once our daughter was born, we wondered if we would ever visit a museum again! While we knew that we wanted our children to be exposed to all the knowledge and experiences that museums can offer, it [...]

Pins of the week – St. Patrick’s Day Edition

Even though St. Patrick’s Day is still two days away, we’ve been celebrating all week with some really fun crafts, foods and activities from our St. Patty’s Day pinterest board. To kick things off, we made this very fun Leprechaun puppet that only requires some crayons, hole puncher and brads. We also tried out [...]

Pins of the week – March 8

Pinterest is an amazing tool for connecting parents with helpful ideas, neat products and fun projects for kids. But we often find the large volume of images and information to be overwhelming and difficult to sort through. In an attempt to sift through all the kid-related pins out there, we are starting this new weekly [...]