Chandler mother Nicole Royse spends a lot of time exploring the local arts scene with her three young children. She’s especially fond of art walks, which allow families to explore diverse art offerings in casual settings. Last month, she took them along for an art walk in Scottsdale, starting at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art [...]
When Dave Luca was a little boy in Lorain, Ohio, he knew the steam locomotive was near his house when all the glassware in the house would rattle. “Steam locomotives pound the rails,” says Luca, who loved to watch the trains roar by, belching steam and smoke, and hoped someday to ride one. Like many [...]
As an eager father pushed his toddler’s stroller through the Scottsdale Arts Festival entrance yesterday, he encouraged the sleepy-eyed lad to wake up and take it all in. “Are you ready,” he said, “to wake up your imagination?” It was an especially fitting question for a festival featuring a special children’s area called ImagiNation. While walking through ImagiNation on [...]
Families familiar with the Arizona Museum for Youth in Mesa will see subtle changes taking place in coming weeks and months as the museum creates spaces that reflect a new name revealed Tuesday morning at a special event attended by local officials, museum leaders and community members. Museum staff members got together four years ago to [...]
Thirty-five teams of ASU students are currently taking part in a competition designed to generate ideas for the Arizona Museum for Youth in Mesa, which is undergoing rebranding and planning for the redesign of several museum spaces. Each team of five includes juniors studying architecture, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture or visual communication at ASU’s Herberger Institute [...]
In my family, the Christmas tree wasn’t complete until my father’s toy train encircled it and made its noisy maiden voyage to ring in the holiday season. My father was the train collector in the family. My mother and I collected dolls. During summer trips to my mother’s family home, she would bring her box [...]
Eddie Basha. Barry Goldwater. Sandra Day O’Connor. Jerry Colangelo. Erma Bombeck. Pat McMahon. Bil Keane. Most Arizona families are plenty familar with these names. But many of the citizens who’ve made significant contributions to our state aren’t nearly as well known. Think Dwight “Pat” Patterson, a rancher born in Tempe who’s considered the “father” of Arizona [...]
The winds and water of Hurricane Sandy swept Olympic Skaters and singer/songwriter Jewel from Atlantic City to Grand Canyon University Arena for two ice skating shows this weekend: The Pandora Unforgettable Holiday Moments on Ice and Musselman’s Apple Sauce Family Skating Tribute. The skaters practiced at the Ice Den earlier this week, setting their smart [...]
Booboo Stewart, who plays Seth Clearwater in “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2″ will make an appearance at a special VIP event marking the Nov. 14 grand opening of the new UltraStar Multi-tainment Center at Ak-Chin Circle in Maricopa. An online contest will award tickets to 20 lucky winners for the VIP event and [...]
The Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix recently opened an exhibit featuring giant sculptures by local artist Carolina Escobar, who says children especially are intrigued by their color and size. “Whispers of a New World” features works made of metal, fabric and resin. One looks like chambers of the heart, and another like a toucan. Some [...]
MAY 2013
$6.00Our 2013 directory of Valley aquatics programs — everything from learn-to-swim programs to diving, racing and synchronized swimming!
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April 2013
$6.00Our April 2013 issue features the 2013 Summer Solutions directory — more than 500 day camps in Maricopa County!
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March 2013
$6.00Our March 2013 issue features the 2013 directory of Overnight Camps in Arizona and the Southwest!
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February 2013
$6.00Our February 2013 issue is all about babies! Learn how to begin building your baby’s bookshelf, make your own baby food, find parent/tot classes and Daddy Boot Camps around the Valley. Plus: gifts, gadgets and great new looks for baby.
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January 2013
$6.00It’s our annual pregnancy issue! Learn about the latest trend among expectant parents: “gender-reveal” parties. Plus: Should you bank your baby’s umbilical cord blood?
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December 2012
$6.00Ice hockey in the desert? Our December issue tells you how to get your kids started. Plus, an insider’s tour of the Arizona Doll and Toy Museum. And two terrific holiday crafts your kids will love!
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