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We know life looks a lot different for our CertifiKID families right now and we're here to help. We've put together a collection of resources to help parents successfully navigate and make the most of this unexpected time home with your kids. We look forward to the day when we're back to "business as usual," but in the meantime, we'll get through this together! 

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Announcing CertifiKID's New Free Sample Club!

By Jamie Ratner, CertifiKID Founder & CEO

I have always loved free stuff. As a kid, my sister Mindy and I had this book called "Free Stuff for Kids." It was a list of all sorts of different companies that you could write letters to and they would send you something free. Mindy and I wrote to literally every single place in that book. We were so excited when our free items arrived, even when it was just a pencil! Just...

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A Very COVID School Year: Resources & Tips to Help You Through

By Kara Murphy, Managing Editor Macaroni Kid National

The 2020-21 school year will look like no other. We will need to offer our teachers, administrators, and OURSELVES as much grace, kindness, and patience as we can muster during this uncertain school year. Macaroni Kid wants to help you make this school year a success, no matter what it might look like for your family. Here is a compilation of useful resources and ideas to make this...

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Celebrating Birthdays While Social Distancing

By Jamie Ratner, CertifiKID Founder & CEO

Birthdays have always been a big deal for my daughter. The girl is a natural-born party planner. It’s typical for her to come to me with a plan for her party six months in advance. And she doesn't just dream up a creative theme. This girl goes all out, leaving no detail of her soiree unplanned. Unfortunately, this year her party, like those of many others, has been crashed by t...

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9 Epic DIY Cardboard Box Projects for Kids

By Kim Humphrey

My daughter is obsessed with this YouTuber known as 'Papa Jake' who uses his mad DIY skills to build some of the craziest, over-the-top box forts you've ever seen - from McDonald's, complete with drive-through and Play Place, to a Fortnite bunker to an oversize toilet filled with slime (yes, really). Needless to say, she was ecstatic when, in an act of coronav...

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11 Wine Bottle and Cork Crafts for Kids (Because You Know You Have Them)

By Kim Humphrey

It's the three billionth day of coronavirus lockdown (or at least it feels like it) and we're on yet another quest for things to keep our kids occupied that don't involve going to the store for supplies. As I glance over at our overflowing bin of recyclables, there is one conspicuous item that seems to make up a large portion of said overflow-age: wine bottles. Considering ...

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We Want S'more! Try This Sweet S'mores Buffet at Your Next Campfire

By Sarah Boucher, Publisher Macaroni Kid Grand Haven, Spring Lake, and Muskegon, MI

It's the perfect season for backyard campfires, and that means it's s'more time! While the traditional graham cracker, chocolate, and toasted marshmallow combination is hard to beat, it's fun to try! My family loves to experiment with what we call a "make your own s'mores buffet." The challenge? To see who can come up with the most creative and delicio...

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10 Fun and Simple Lunches Kids Can Make Themselves

By Kim Humphrey

The transition from "the school year" to "summer fun" looks a lot different this year; meaning, there's not much of one! But one transition I'd definitely like to make is having my kids take over making their own lunches. Happy summer to me! While our kids were responsible for packing their own lunches for school, with school and activities canceled, my ...

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Free Entrance to National Parks for 5th Graders for 2020-21 School Year

By Kim Humphrey

Launched by the Obama administration in 2015 to coincide with the one hundredth anniversary of the National Park Service, the Every Kid Outdoors Program provides an annual pass for fourth graders and their families to visit national parks, forests, lands, monuments, waters and wildlife refuges across the country for FREE (Have a fourth grader in your fam? Get your pass here.)...

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30 Zoom Backgrounds Kids Will Love

By Kim Humphrey

(No) thanks to the coronavirus, we are now all aficionados in using the Zoom video conferencing platform for everything from work meetings to online classes to virtual happy hours and play dates. Our timid first steps into Zoom's world had us figuring out how to adjust our audio settings and set our desired video layout. Some of us even stumbled upon Zoom's stock virtual backgr...

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