More than 90% of children's lives are spent indoors. For the past 20 years, the Ithaca Children's Garden has been helping to lower that number locally by encouraging kids to play outside while ...

For kids and adults who have been “goo deprived” indoors this winter, now is the time to go out and make the mess you’ve been missing. Outdoor slime parties, tie-dye sessions, painting classes with ...

Permission to play in the dirt may be all that it takes to interest a child in gardening. Leaving a little extra room in a corner of the garden for making mud pies also can be enticing ? and ...

Many childhoods have days in which kids sling or roll around in mud. From 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, families will have the opportunity to slip, slide and toss around mud at the Ithaca Children's Garden ...

When the sun's out, we all want to be in the garden having fun. Once you have children, that no longer means lounging with a glass of Pimm's, but instead engaging in more interactive, active, and ...

Mud? Check. Sunshine? Check. Water? Check. Bugs? Check. What child doesn't like to play in the dirt, smell flowers and eat tomatoes right off the vine? It's as if gardening was invented for kids.

Thinking of these factors can help make sure a garden grows happy and healthy kids, as well as happy and healthy plants. Creating a child-friendly garden is straightforward. But there are certain ...

Wayne County Parks held its annual Mud Day event on Tuesday afternoon at Nankin Mills Park in Westland. Wheelbarrow races were had, children played muddy limbo and mud king and queen were even awarded ...