Families turn to the bi-weekly free email subscription that provides them with themed, family-friendly collections of stories, puzzles, videos, games, and creative activities
Published: July 29, 2020
Three months after Highlights@Home was launched, families are still turning to the bi-weekly free email subscription that provides them with themed, family-friendly collections of stories, puzzles, videos, games, and creative activities.
With summer underway, Highlights@Home has tweaked its formula to reflect the seasonal lifestyle shift. One theme will now carry over the entire week and while Tuesday’s activities focus on independent play, Friday’s are geared to weekend family participation.
As previously, the weekly theme contains a variety of activities, including things to solve, to read, to get you moving, to make, to do for others, and to write, draw or talk about. The collections are created in a way that allows parents to use each idea however works best for their families.
Following is an outline of themes for the rest of the summer and into the beginning of the school year:
- July 28 and 31 – Get Your Game On – Summer Olympic inspired events
- August 4 and 7 – Get that Beach Vacation Feel – Inspired by National Sandcastle Day and National Lighthouse Day, August 7
- August 11 and 14 – Get Creative! – A boredom-buster packet for families who are tired of hearing “I’m bored!” as summer stretches on
- August 18 and 21 – Dig In! – A celebration of the August bounty of garden/farm-fresh veggies/fruit
- August 25 and 28 – Pet-a-Palooza – Celebrating National Dog Day (August 26) and activities paying homage to all pets
Anyone interested may sign up to directly receive Highlights@Home at http://www.highlights.com/email-sign-up, and links to each collection and downloadable content will reside on http://www.highlights.com/parents.