Celebrate Shark Week with your children by doing one of these easy shark crafts – they’ll provide hours of fun and play!

Summer is the perfect time for children to unplug and enjoy the outdoors. However, with tablets and so many other digital ...

Everyone uses their senses to understand the world around them. This is especially true for children who, after birth, rely solely on their senses for knowledge about the world and everything in it.

UNICEF-supported sports and recreation activities offer children in the Gaza Strip a much-needed opportunity to play, connect ...

Keeping the kids busy doesn't have to be expensive or over-the-top. These summer activities are easy ways to keep things interesting.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lanee Lee covers global dining and drinking. A few years before having a baby, I celebrated my 40th birthday in an elegant ...

One is such an exciting age for you and your little one. They're certainly not babies anymore, and their brains and bodies are ready to explore anything and everything (cue the baby proofing!). This ...

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Free play, especially "risky play," is essential for the well-being of children, Canadian pediatricians say. The Canadian Pediatric Society released new guidance on Jan. 25, ...

Children no longer play freely in driveways, on their streets or in urban parks and courtyards. In many places, children’s freedom to roam has been diminishing for generations, but the pandemic has ...

One of my earliest posts here concerned the definition of play, which I developed further in an article on “Definitions of Play” for Scholarpedia (Gray, 2013) and in my book Free to Learn. I first ...