Cool Summer Recipes

When it's hot outside, the last thing you want to do is turn on the oven. It's hot out! Keep your cool with recipes that don't require the oven. Serving fast-cooking dishes and chilled foods, or using alternate appliances, will help keep your kitchen cool.

Catch-a-Wave Table

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Add a touch of summer to a kid-sized table with this easy-to-create sun and sea motif.

Sand Mosaics

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This beach project is a sort of natural version of glitter designs -- except unlike glitter, your supply of sand is practically inexhaustible.

Sand Candles

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If your kids seem to truck home enough sand after a day at the shore to build another beach, here's a good use for it.

Is It Time To Plant?

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Family 5: Our Top Gear for Beach-Bound Parents

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Sunscreen? Check. Oversized towel? Check. See what else you need to make the most of summer in the sun.

The Great Outdoors: Water Fun

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We have plenty of ways to keep cool with beach, river, water park, and pool activities.

Our Favorite Things:
Summer Fun

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Take a look at some of our favorite, new summer games and toys for kids of all ages.