San Antonio Busy Kids

Welcome to Twyla’s Corner, where each Monday, I post a question from the Blue Filing Box of math problems. The first person with the correct answer wins. Today’s prize is courtesy of  Playskool and is an adorable pair of Sesame Street® Cookie Monster and Telly figurines. Just perfect for dumping in a glass of milk…. [...]

Mark your calendar for this coming Saturday, September 24, because it’s time for Museum Day! Every year, Smithsonian magazine offers free admission to participating museums across the country. Here’s the deal…find a museum to you want to go do, download your tickets, show up and you’re in.

It’s the second week of middle school for Twirl. There were more lessons to be learned. Like: If you don’t get out of the way, the big 8th grade football players will push you out of the way. This is probably not a bad lesson to learn early on. And that was just the start…

Camp in 1973… • Pink lemonade (fondly called bug juice in my circles) • Jacks (onsies, bounce, twosies, bounce, threesies, bounce) • Swimming until my skin gets all wrinkly • Sack lunches featuring cream cheese and grape jelly sandwiches (don’t knock it till you try it) • Singing songs on bumpy buses • Coming home [...]

I love finding new camps! Especially unique ones. And this one fits the bill perfectly: Texas AgriLife Extension’s Youth Entomology Summer Camp. That means BUGS! Creepy, crawly, squishy bugs. If you have a budding entomologist, this is a camp not to be missed. Taught by Molly Keck, your little scientist will learn how to put [...]

Just a reminder…the deadline is approaching to apply for the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented scholarship program. But, even if your child isn’t in the GT program at school, the site still has an awesome summer camp guide available for download. Click right here to get it. My favs: Camp Invention, fun with [...]

I love butterflies. I see them fly around my butterfly garden this summer, and it always brings to mind one of my very favorite kids’ songs…and one of my very favorite Texas musicians. If you have elementary-aged kids, introduce them right now to Lucas Miller. Seriously – you can’t listen to his music and not [...]

Sumobots…here we come! UTSA has started taking applications for its iTec Robotics summer camp. New for this year is a program for high school students. Also new is the $70 fee per student. Last year, the program was free. Still, at under $100 for two weeks, daily free breakfast and lunch and an amazing robotic [...]

Spring Break is really the kick off season for summer camp, isn’t it? Sign up now, or be left with the crumbs. At least, that’s how it can feel. There’s still time to get in the first batch of applications for several camps. Some I’ve already talked about here and here. And here are a [...]

When we went to Iowa over the holidays, we stopped at the Putnam Museum and had the chance to see the newly-renovated Egyptian exhibit. It was fun trying to figure out hieroglyphs together, and while I was fascinated with the sarcophagus, it kind of freaked out the kids…especially the one who was reading a mystery [...]