Being Savvy: Your guide to activities and fun things to do with your preschoolers and kids in Philadelphia, PA

Dressing Up

Samhain

October 13, 2008

Happy coming New Year! Wait, what? OK, most of us no longer celebrate November 1st as the beginning of the year, but folks used to. Yes, it turns out that Halloween used to be the Celt's New Year's Eve bash--including costumes to confuse the dead (because hey, even the dead like a good New Year's Eve bash). Obviously, you'll find the roots of our current trick-and-treating holiday in the  Read more...

Dress Up

October 06, 2008

My daughter is just approaching the age where she enjoys dressing up. She's taken to wearing her daddy's hats and putting a blanket over her head to pretend she's a dinosaur (don't ask me where the dinosaur thing comes from; I blame her father). So we are planning on taking advantage of the current season (um, you know, Halloween) to stock up on items to build her a dress up bin. It's perfect  Read more...

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Rainy & Quiet Days:
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A Sense of History:
Our City's Stories

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