1. Help kids shake off the winter blahs and get bouncing with the Whopper Hopper or Mini Hopper! They'll love hopping up and down around the backyard or neighborhood park. Kids can challenge each other to races, obstacle courses or they can create their own unique hopping games!

2. Earth Day is a great reason to do some nature-inspired crafting, and it is also a great way to help children to be more aware of their environment. Take a walk around your neighborhood, a local park, or go on a nature hike. Gather small stones, flower petals, leaves and other items to use for a nature collage. You can also have children draw a picture of some of the plants, trees, bugs, animals or other things they saw using natural recycled drawing paper and our environmentally friendly colored pencils.

3. Baseball season is a great reason to get everyone outdoors and involved in some games of their own. Practice throwing and catching skills with EZ Catch or play a game with a set of soft foam balls or colored beanbags.

4. Kids can create their own unique gifts for teachers, Mother's Day, Father's Day and other loved ones using or wooden Photo Frame Ornaments or Bobble Heart Note Holders. Both make lasting keepsakes they'll be sure to cherish for years to come. They’re easy to decorate with BioColor® or Colorations® markers.

5. Make use of the light spring and summer breezes. Kids can decorate their own flying discs or design their own pinwheels, and then play with them outside. It's a great opportunity to talk with children about changes in the weather and seasons. Kids will especially love watching the colors of their pinwheels blend together as they whirl.

6. Journaling can be an excellent transition between activities or to wind down the day. Give older kids a "topic of the day" and have them spend 15 minutes writing about it in a blank notebook. Younger ones can draw pictures on construction paper about the topics you provide.

7. Celebrate diversity, and have children choose a culture to explore. Check out some books from the library or gather some other materials from magazines, travel guides, newspapers or online. Together, you can try preparing some new ethnic foods, a traditional dance or speaking some words of a new language. Introduce some world music while you work, such as Putomayo World Playground.

8. Fourth of July is a great time to do some patriotic crafting with the kids. Make star spangled bracelets using red, white and blue pony beads and white elastic or use Rexlace® and circular split rings to make flag-inspired key chains. Incorporate a few fun facts about American history while you work to add to the patriotic theme.

9. There's no better way to beat the summer heat than to have a car or bike wash. Grab a couple of buckets, fill with soapy water, get out a garden hose and you'll be ready to go! Have older children help vacuum the interior and clean the inside windows of the car first. Younger children can help gather any trash inside into garbage bags. Then, let children wash their own bikes, big toy cars, ride-ons or tricycles!

10. Summer is a prime time for kids to go searching for unique bugs and insects on an expedition in the back yard, park, or on a nature hike. Bug Capture Bubbles are easy for little hands to grip and safely collect insects. Kids can look at what they find up-close with Super Magnifiers before they set the critters free (outside, of course!).