Things To Do, Places To Be.
The Kid's Directory Winter Edition 2025
Kick off 2025 by enjoying new experiences, including different play places and introducing healthier habits with your family. Find hobby classes, sports activities, and local things to start new for your next kid and parent adventure.
New starts usually require us to consider new habits or break old ones. Contributing writer Lisa Fischer helps us by sharing how families adopted specific eating and health habits to avoid chronic illness and improve behavior and overall well-being.
Kid Calendar
Kid Meal Deals
Kid Meal Deals
Always looking for things to do with the kids? View our always popular kid-approved and family-friendly calendar.
It's a community calendar accessible online, perfect for knowing what to plan, where to go, and what to do.
Kid Meal Deals
Kid Meal Deals
Kid Meal Deals
Who doesn't like free, especially when feeding a family of many mouths? Our list of local places that offer Kids Eat Free or other great meal deals, either by the day of the week, seasonal, or special events or occasions.
Kid News
Kid Meal Deals
Kid News
Do you need resources to improve your kids or family? We share news articles from local resources, health institutions, and family service providers who can help your family be its best yet, including education and community programs.
Help your child make a confident start in school.
Getting ready to start school
Families help their child prepare for school from birth. Daily interactions with family and other caregivers promote learning. Talking, reading, and playing may seem simple but are critical activities that help children’s minds and behaviors develop. If your child or grandchild is starting kindergarten in Fall 2025, it’s time to focus on their readiness for school.
Kick off 2025 with your guide to kindergarten readiness
Better Beginnings provides hands-on kindergarten readiness activities for fun family learning. The Getting Ready for Kindergarten Calendar guides families, week-by-week, with activities and suggested reading that help children learn literacy, science, and math basics. Creative projects help them develop the fine motor control needed to hold a pencil correctly and use scissors – essential skills for kindergarten. Activities in the calendar also encourage children to develop
self-help, problem-solving and social skills.
The Kindergarten Readiness Checklist helps families discover areas of development their child may need help with before starting school. All resources are free and available online for download.
We encourage families to partner with their child’s early educators to help their child start kindergarten with confidence. Click here to learn more and locate additional resources.
Sponsored editorial, the Arkansas Department of Education. written by Kelli Hilburn, Better Beginnings Program Administrator
Better Beginnings is administered by
the Arkansas Department of Education.
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