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Have a green Halloween with these spooky ghost eco-crafts.

The success or failure of families is determined by how well they raise their children. Many families can take a cue from the successful corporate business manager.

Are you looking for a way to bring Christmas back to Christmas? Do you want to move away from the commercialism and materialism?

Unfortunately, personal time is usually overlooked when children are born. Here are five suggestions that will help you gain some personal time.

Have you been looking for something a bit different to cover your floors, only to find you are limited to what is carried in your local stores?

The holiday season is about giving. This year, give back to the environment and save money along the way by using natural and recycled materials to decorate the tree.

Kids can create crafty Christmas holidays ornaments with only a few basic art materials. Learn about the simple how-to steps.

Have fun with your family creating one of a kind projects and help the environment by recycling common household items.

Years ago people would make puppets using odd socks, buttons and yarn. They would sew the buttons on the sock for eyes and sew the yarn on top for hair.

H. Weston Drumheller, an architect and artist from Anderson Valley in California constructed a meditation maze in the backyard of a Colorado residence.

Container vegetable gardening takes minimal space, puts food on the table, and costs little. Planting seedlings cuts growing time. Share the work for a family project.

Today's project is a gingerbread house used to countdown the days until Christmas.

This year, try fall crafts for kids for the twenty-first century. Here's a fall leaves craft with a tech-savvy way to prevent fading.

The Black Eyed Peas performed two songs, Family Fun's contributing editor presented inexpensive summer fun ideas, and the co-hosts discussed hot topics on The View.

One of the most common pitfalls families face is forgetting that common courtesies are not just for those outside the home. Here is a fun way to remind each other.

One of 10 siblings growing up in a lower class Australian family, Heath Ducker tells the story of how he overcame poverty and sexual abuse to find happiness and success.

With food banks stretched beyond capacity, and unemployment on the rise, Thanksgiving 2009 is a time to get friends and family into volunteering to help feed the hungry.

Depending on the quality of the relationship, a couples' marital satisfaction can rebound or even improve after they adjust to their first baby.

Creative types on a budget don't have to be stingy with friends and family during the winter holidays; these three ideas for artists make great, memorable presents.

Show how much you care this Christmas. The beauty of giving a memory box is that it will fit on any Christmas budget but still be an important gift.

The whole family can get involved in this quick kids' arts and crafts project. Melting crayon stubs into jumbo crayons makes use of what would normally be thrown away.

Looking for something nice to do in the fall? Deliver Halloween boo baskets as a family or youth group with boo basket ideas like candy corn Rice Krispie treats and more.

A review of the latest knitting book by Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne entitled "Mason-Dixon Knitting: The Curious Knitters' Guide"

Planting a rain garden is a great family project. Choose from a list of deep rooted plants that can attract butterflies or birds and becomes a low maintenance garden.

Toddlers can learn the value of work at an early age. Start early to teach your toddler that work can be fun, productive, and rewarding.

Planting containers with children can be a fun time shared with parents as well as a learning experience.

Homemade cookie mix in a jar is an simple and fun gift to make and give. Easy put together, make them in batches and give them to friends, family and as teacher gifts.

For health reasons parents may wish to limit the amount of television viewed by children.

Personalized Christmas Greeting Cards with a family photo is a great way to add a personal touch to holiday cards.

The jury is in on the fact that TV and technology are taking over homes, but quality family time can be created by turning off multi-media toys for two days every week.

Create lasting memories by joining your child in special Father's Day activities.

From reading aloud to your infant to encouraging your high-schoolers to read the classics, there's much you can do to get your children reading.

Christmas memories are so precious! Some families create a Christmas scrapbook--a wonderful record chronicling annual family holiday festivities.

Christmas traditions give meaning to the holidays, helping families to forge strong ties.

Be it called Yuletide or Christmas time, the holiday season is filled with joy and magick. Many current traditions have Pagan roots. One of the joys is exchanging cards.

Christmas is about sparkle, glitz and gift giving. However, it is also about awareness of family and community. This year, go green and help a neighbor in need.

Ideas for ways in which you, your family and friends can celebrate the Sabbat of Litha, also known as Midsummer and Summer Solstice.

Mercy Me lead singer Bart Millard follows up his first solo album "Hymned No. 1" with a second disc of reinterpreted hymns "Hymned Again."

The future of sustainable residential design lies in multi-unit development. Two design firms demonstrate effective and sustainable approaches to green building.

Turn a fun family project into a useful tool to organize after school activities, appointments, parties and more! This article explains how to create a family calendar.

These pumpkin flavored cut out cookies are delicious and fun to make and decorate for Halloween or Thanksgiving.

Spring fever will be hitting the kids soon with a loud chorus of, "Mom, there's nothing to do". Be ready for them with these suggestions from gardening to birdwatching.

Don't let summer sun and fun drain your child's brain. Use these tips to help them keep learning even during the lazy days of summer vacation.

Legendary Christian rock band Stryper has announced plans for a 25th Anniversary Tour, hitting 50 cities in North America this fall before going international in January

Recycle worn winter clothing items into art materials. This article outlines steps for creating a Thanksgiving turkey craft using last season's gloves.

The Colosseum has been part of the landscape of Rome for nearly 2000 years. Its history reflects the fortunes of the empire that constructed it.

The largest undergraduate majors at this top-rated USA art school include Painting and Drawing, Design, Illustration and Photography.

Finding things to do during the holidays can sometimes be challenging, but any of these fun and affordable activities will keep holiday boredom at bay.

Teaching kids the difference between biodegradable and non-biodegradable materials is the first step to helping them understand reduce, reuse, recycle, and compost

The kitchen is one of the easiest places to trim the budget, and most families can take advantage of these strategies to save money on groceries.