TABLE OF CONTENTS ARTSGUIDE
Liz Davis
MASTERMIND
4-10
KIDSGUIDE
Where To: Get crafty, sew and knit, dance, play music, sing, star in a play, and find an art camp.
CAMPGUIDE
MAKING FAMILY LIFE BETTER
JOIN US:
10-22
Where To: Find the perfect camp. There are over 300––day-long, week-long––there’s something for every age, toddlers to teens.
FROM LIZ:
EDUCATIONGUIDE
Every 10 years––or more in our case––you have to reinvent yourself. Shake everything out, reevaluate, rearrange, and put it all back together in a far more awesome way.
22-28
Where To: Find schools, get academic help, and participate in STEM programs and classes.
FAMILYGUIDE
28-34
Where To: Find child care, sitter training, parent education and support, health providers, youth groups, and special-needs services. Also see page 54 for a list of Emergency Resources.
OUTINGSGUIDE
34-44
Where To: Find the best attractions, water parks, free museum days, specialty museums (historical, kids-only, car, flight), planetariums, indoor playgrounds, zoos, farms, and train rides.
PARTYGUIDE 44-46 Where To: Party! Over 25 original ideas from archery and fencing parties to creating your own music video in a studio.
SPORTSGUIDE
46-53
Where To: Play and learn any sport: archery, baseball/softball, basketball, fencing, boating, football, cheer, gymnastics, horseback riding, skateboarding, skating, hockey, soccer, volleyball water sports and lots more.
Alina Na
EDITOR & GRAPHICS WUNDERKIND
Meet Kidsguide 2.0—your ultimate guides (plural)––to Arts, Camps, Education, Outings… you name it. If it’s for kids and families, we’ve got a guide for it. This issue is organized by our “Guides.” Each one contains conversations––Q&As––about things that you as parents may be looking for. (KG Factoid: this was the inspiration for Kidsguide 34 years ago––parents asking parents, “where can I find …”). The contents of each section are a reminder of how lucky we are to be surrounded by an amazing array of opportunities to enrich and expand the lives of our kids (the other big inspiration for KG). The biggest news about all of this is that the information in this issue is completely blown up on our new website. Oh. Em. Gee. Yes, I said new website. It has far more in-depth information on each topic with lots of bells and whistles to help you connect to these services faster and easier. And holy cow, wait till you see our online events calendar. We know it’s what you love most. It’s new, improved, and can do just about everything but cook your dinner (Kidsguide 3.0). To help you and your kids get acquainted with the new site, play our interactive game on page 56. Prizes are involved and they are good ones! Disclaimer: We do know change is a process and we want to continually improve this process and its contents. And for that, we need you! Please pipe up, complain, even compliment. We take great pride in what we do and we want it to be everything you need to make your family life better, easier, more fun. It’s our job. Please email me: Liz@kidsguidemagazine.com.
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Tiffany Salter MARKETING MAVEN
COVER ARTIST PABLO BERNASCONI, ARGENTINA CONTENT EDITORS AMANDA PARIS & MICHELLE NAVARRO BARKERS FRANNY & PICKLES
LEGAL STUFF:
“Kidsguide® Copyright 2019. Liz Davis. All rights reserved. No portion of this magazine may be used for a derivative work, reproduced or copied—mechanically, electronically, or by any other means, including photocopying—distributed, or displayed without prior written permission of the publisher. The materials herein are provided on an “as is” basis and the publisher of this magazine, KIDSGUIDE, Inc., expressly disclaims all warranties, including without limitation the warranties of currentness, correctness, completeness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, noninfringement of intellectual property, and freedom from errors. KIDSGUIDE, Inc. assumes no liability or responsibility for any loss or injury arising out of errors, omissions, uses, or participation as a result of publication of all magazine editions to the fullest extent permitted by law. KIDSGUIDE, Inc. is not in any way recommending or endorsing any program, business, activity, or advertiser listed within this magazine. Names, addresses, fees, descriptions, and services listed in KIDSGUIDE are subject to change. We sincerely request that any errors be brought to the publisher’s attention so that they may be corrected in future editions.”
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