Enter our Halloween Costume Contest!
While many families in the Austin area have decided to skip trick-or-treating this year, kids and parents alike aren’t even thinking about not dressing up for Halloween!
Therefore, we’re looking for the cutest, coolest, scariest, ugliest, you-name-it kids in costumes, the 512 has ever seen!
We have some fun prizes sponsored by local businesses.
Read on for details and how to enter.
Birgit SundOctober 22, 2020
Great news: Austin is experiencing a record-breaking early voting turnout!
Downfall: long lines and long waiting hours, which are strenuous for parents who need to bring their children along with them to the polls.
This is where Austin based babysitter agency Babysitting Connection comes into play. In order to make it easier for families to get to the polls and get their vote and voices heard, Babysitting Connection is offering free childcare for voters in line at select Travis County polling locations during early voting as well as on Election Day. Read on for details.
Birgit SundOctober 21, 2020
It's time for turkeys and gingerbread houses! ArtBarnATX has some fun artsy events coming up!
Join a face-to-face art class at the Art Barn or get a to-go art kit and make a personalized keepsake gingerbread house, ceramic turkey luminary, or folded book art pieces at home.
Read on for class and registration info.
Birgit SundOctober 15, 2020
Today's featured books,
My Daddy is a Monster/My Kids are Monsters and
My Mummy is a Monster/My Children are Monsters by Natalie Reeves Billing and illustrated by Lisa Williams are part of “The Monstrous Me Collection”. Both books are uniquely engaging and describe one story from two points of view, the children's and the father's and mother's respectively. Once you reach a certain place in the book, you flip the book over and read it again, it’s the same, yet different.
Who's going to be the monster today, Mom or Dad?
Read the book review of a fellow Live Grow Play Austin reader and enter for a chance to win your own copy.
Erin ThompsonOctober 8, 2020
The show must go on – and it will!
While Austin’s beloved ZACH Theatre doesn’t offer any in-person performing arts classes and camps at the moment, kids and adults alike still have the opportunity to explore the world of acting, singing, dancing, role-playing, and story-telling.
Starting the week of October 19th, ZACH Theatre offers interactive virtual classes for kids K-12. Classes take place once a week, in the morning or in the afternoon. Students can choose from a variety of disciplines. Free sample classes available.
Read on for details.
Birgit SundOctober 5, 2020
Keeping your new baby close to your heart in a wrap or sling not only feels natural, it makes things a little bit easier in those busy first few months.
If you notice that it seems to make baby calmer, it's not a fluke — science has proven that wearing your baby can benefit their physical and emotional health.
So, what can babywearing do for you and your little one? Read on to learn about 23 evidence-based benefits of babywearing.
Birgit SundSeptember 30, 2020
Today's featured book Perry the Fairy and her Tail by Tsila Glidai and Illustrator Tamar Efrati is a charming lesson about acceptance, self- confidence and inclusion told by the sweetest grandmother to her curious granddaughter. This is the first book in a series of Tell Me A Story, Grandma Glee. Children ages 4-8 will enjoy this book as they engage in rhyming sentences on each page and beautifully hand- drawn pictures to compliment every page.
Laura SchwarczSeptember 29, 2020
It’s fall, y’all, and what’s better than cozying up at home with the kids and a fun board game on a cold, rainy day? We just got a new board game and we love it: Ravensburger 3D Labyrinth!
Just like in the classic and other versions of Labyrinth, the goal of this game is to be the first to collect all of your treasures by moving walls and open passages of a Labyrinth, and to foil and block your opponents. Better get your thinking hat on!
Read our review and enter for a chance to win your own copy of the game.
Birgit SundSeptember 23, 2020
Show us your furry friends and enter your pet for a chance to become the Live Grow Play Austin Pet Of The Year!
Plus learn how to keep your cats and dogs healthy and happy.
Birgit SundSeptember 4, 2020
Today's featured book, This Book is Ridiculous, was written by George Reistma and illustrated by Ronaldo Florendo. In this story we follow a snail named Sammy while he travels thru the park and observes other friendly animals doing things that look odd along the way.
Read the book review of a fellow Live Grow Play Austin reader and enter for a chance to win your own copy.
Birgit SundSeptember 1, 2020