Sure, we may be Mile High Mamas but we’re all about the Papas in our lives. Disney’s FamilyFun magazine has some great Father’s Day ideas:
A Grate Gift for Dad. This clever trio is a tasty way to honor the King of the Grill on Father’s Day. And who doesn’t love dessert (they’re cupcakes!)?
Formal Greetings. Even [...]

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You don’t need to go far to hit the beach this summer.
The Children’s Museum of Denver is going beyond the ordinary and making waves with the 770 sq-ft inflatable Super Sand Dome. This colossal dome is filled with piles and piles of beach-like sand (80,000 lbs [...]

Denver is a year-round ice cream town, but come summer, we lose our collective cool for the stuff. Just check the lines at Bonnie Brae, Liks, Magill’s or any of the other neighborhood ice cream shops around town. These longtime leaders have been serving the market for years. But as much as we love our [...]

Kids scale them. Parents covet them. Pop songs romanticize them.
Playgrounds abound in and around Denver. Many of them incorporate whimsical public art works and state-of-the-art equipment.
But it takes more than just those frills to make a great playground. It takes plenty of trees and shade and a little something intangible – a sense of community.
Great [...]

Nederland, just 17 miles west of Boulder, retains a reputation for being a hippie town, thanks in part to such well-known, offbeat annual events as the jam-friendly music festival NedFest, happening Aug. 28-29, and winter’s wacky Frozen Dead Guy Days.
But today at 10 a.m., Nederland launches into a new era of being not just a [...]

Call it Denver’s summer of blockbusters.
Three big, very different exhibitions will be duking it out for the public’s attention.
Heading the list is King Tut — an abbreviated name that draws instant recognition and conjures the exoticism, mystery and thrill of ancient Egypt.
The 1922 discovery of the young pharaoh’s untouched, luxurious tomb drew international coverage and [...]

What happens when 200 Mile High Mamas and their families pop into the Children’s Museum of Denver for a night of bubbling revelry?
Enough good, clean, soapy fun to negate the need for baths that night. Hey, my kids convinced me.
On Wednesday, May 19th, the Children’s Museum of Denver threw open their doors for [...]

Snow in May?!!
Let’s face it: very few people welcomed our winter blast last week with the exception of a few hearty souls like me. I am admittedly dysfunctional in that when it snows, all I want to do is ski, hike or run in it.
Either that or I’m just Canadian.
After I bundled up my kids [...]

Families deserve a break from their own kitchens.
But eating out can be expensive — even out- of-reach — for those whose clans are a few kiddos short of a TLC reality show.
Not to fear: The following Denver-area restaurants offer either free or reduced-price meals for youngsters. Some even provide enough wholesome distractions to let parents [...]

The names pop and zing like wild, white-knuckled theme-park attractions: the Drop Zone, the Vapor Station, the Big Bubble Maker. But like most activities at the Children’s Museum of Denver, they’re also designed to inject some learning into the fun.
“Bubbles,” the museum’s latest long-term exhibit, which opens Saturday, has a deceptively simple title. Designed and [...]