Hot Family How-Tos
How To: Swaddle a baby
Newborns are used to the coziness of the womb. Recreating that environment is a great way to calm a baby during her first few months in the big wide world.
How To: Make a paper bag puppet
You can decorate a paper bag puppet any way you like, but there's one puppet that no one will have seen before—one that looks like you!
How To: Make a toy kaleidoscope
Make this imaginative toy with beads, a hot glue gun and some junk drawer items.
How To: Make floating bubbles with kids
Here's a fun science project that kids will love, Floating Bubbles! Make floating bubbles with kids.
How To: Make floating bubbles
This cool experiment shows how to make soap bubbles hover in the air over dried ice.
How To: Use a breast pump
Another method of feeding your newborn, when breastfeeding all the time is not an option, is to use what's called a "breast pump." Express your milk when convenient without sacrificing your schedule. Use a breast pump.
How To: Buckle a baby into a car seat
The right way to use a car seat and ensure your infant's safety. Buckle a baby into a car seat.
How To: Work with polymer clay
Learn how to mold, shape and work polymer clay for all your crafting needs. Be certain to protect your work place.
How To: Make slimy Silly Putty with glue and Borax
Here is the perfect recipe for that childhood fun gooey substance. It seems everyone tries but get this wrong? I have found the perfect proportions. So no more glue balls. This isn't slime. This video is my recipe for making a silly putt... More»y like substance. I am a chemist and it works perfectly. It is a polyvinyl acetate polymer. Metric measurements 25mL glue, 20mL water, 15mL Borax Solution No matter how many times I do this, I never get bored making it. It acts like snot but it isn't ...
How To: Teach your child the parts of the body
This video shows you how to teach the parts of the body. You can watch this video with your child or you can point to the parts of the body on yourself and then on your child. Teach your child the parts of the body.
How To: Make yarn crafts
In this video series, our expert will teach you how to make a variety of yarn crafts. Get easy to follow instructions for making a yarn doll, a yarn cross and a yarn pen.
How To: Get your baby to latch on correctly when breastfeeding
The most important part of breastfeeding is getting the baby to latch on correctly. Find out the best breastfeeding positions so your baby can get the proper latch. The second part gives extra advice for women with flat or inverted nipples.
How To: Relieve labor pain naturally
If you want to stay drug free for the birth of your baby, then you may want to consider watching this video and getting some tips on ways to relieve labor pain naturally.
How To: Speed up labor
Learn various relaxation techniques to help speed up labor and to help relieve the pain.
How To: Soothe and heal chapped nipples
On today's panel discussion the moms reveal the cure to chapped breasts; lanolin cream. Lanolin cream, which can be purchased at any drugstore, helps soothe and heal sore, tender, or chapped nipples. The best part of using pure lanolin is it's edible so it's not toxic to your baby.
How To: Make a belly cast
Learn all about the recent Hollywood pregnancy trend of belly casting. The Pregnancy Show gives you an exclusive look at how to make your own belly cast.
How To: Make pipe cleaner action figures
In this series of crafts videos, our young comics and science fiction fan (and professional actor) Halley Joseph Eveland will talk you through the creation of pipe cleaner action figures. As you bend, twist and snip your colored pipe cleaners, watch these fun versions of your favorite Star Wars heroes take shape before your very eyes. And these are not simply stick figures, but artistic creations with muscles, capes, masks and of course light sabers.
How To: Give your child a real life lesson in manners
When your child is well-behaved, it says as much about you as it does about her! Here, tips for teaching your child the importance of manners. Give your child a real life lesson in manners.
How To: Prepare your child for the real world
The world can be cruel to growing children. Give your child the tools to deal with life's setbacks. Prepare your child for the real world.
How To: Make a toy boat and water mill
In this video series, our expert Katalin Toth will teach you how to do crafts with children. She will show you how to make a toy boat including how to paint the boat, glue the popsicle sticks, cu the popsicle sticks, and test the boat out in water. Katalin and her children will also teach you how to make a toy water mill including how to cut the popsicle sticks, how to add soil, and how to make a decorative star for the toy water mill.
How To: Cope with early labor
This video discusses how to deal with early labor. The most important thing is to eat and drink when you first realize you are in labor.
How To: Make play dough
Kipkay shows you how to make play dough. You use two cups of flower, two cups of water, one cup of salt, two tablespoons of vegetable oil, and one tablespoon of cream of tartar. Stir over low heat until the dough clumps, knead the dough, separate the dough into four balls, and then add food coloring.
How To: Make a high speed spinner
Kipkay makes a tiny high speed spinner with just a paper clip. They can be different colors and you can also use large paper clips.
How To: Make clothespin crafts
Make clothespin crafts. Part 1 of 15 - How to Make clothespin crafts.
How To: Make a pipe cleaner crafts
Our expert will guide you with some basic tips for manipulating pipe cleaners; then watch him do several projects with step-by-step instructions. It’s an easy way to introduce your children to the world of arts and crafts, or maybe just share an afternoon of quality time together.
How To: Make a homemade drum
J.D. Keating is a musician, artist and educator and he shows you in this series of videos how a child can make a drum.
How To: Make homemade shakers
J.D. Keating shows you how to make the percussion instrument shakers. Part 1 of 4 - How to Make homemade shakers.
How To: Make a wallet out of tape
Even kids can follow along with this Weekend Project. Make Magazine and Bre Pettis put together this wallet using scissors and duct tape. You can also use a hobby knife, book binding tape and gaffers' tape if want a fancy wallet.
How To: Get a pregnancy massage
Pregnancy massage may reduce stress, decrease swelling in arms and legs, and relieve aches and pains in muscles and joints. Pregnancy massage is becoming increasingly popular with mothers-to-be. You might have heard of it before, but may not know what it involves or who to go to. So if you're a mother-to-be or know one, certified pregnancy massage therapist Sue Hare is going to show us what pregnancy massage is really like. Remember pregnancy massage and differs from regular massage, watch th...
How To: Avoid empty threats when disciplining children
Following through with discipline is the best way to get your kid to behave. Don't threaten to throw child's toys away if they don't clean up. A follow through would be to throw the toys away! Avoid empty threats when disciplining children.
How To: Keep yourself fit when you are pregnant
Liz Rodriguez demonstrates that to keep yourself fit when you are pregnant, you should do the following: squats, stretching lunge, and cat curls. These pre-natal workouts require a bench, footwear, and a mat. In addition to keeping you, these exercises can keep your baby healthy. Keep yourself fit when you are pregnant.
How To: Get ideas for kids crafts
If you are looking for some fun craft project to do with your children, take some time and watch this free video series.
How To: Exercise and stay fit if you're pregnant
In these videos, you will learn some techniques for staying fit during the course of your pregnancy. You will see demonstrations of several exercises that you can perform from the first through the third trimester. You will learn how normal exercises such as the pushup, the squat and the crunch, can be adapted to fit the different stages of your pregnancy. In order to adapt normal callisthenic exercises to different stages of your pregnancy, our expert will show you different variations on tr...
How To: Help a preschooler hop on one leg
For preschoolers hopping on one leg is not only healthy, but also great for working on body control.
How To: Sing a song about bubbles with a preschooler
For preschoolers a rhyming song with hand movements. Singing songs with your child is wonderful for many reasons. The most important reason is that singing is it is fun and children love to sing. Songs are great for increasing vocabulary and pronunciation. Using hand and body movements with songs and rhymes helps preschoolers learn to control their bodies. There is even research that has shown that children who are actively involved in music do better in reading and math when they start schoo...
How To: Teach a preschooler the "Baby Bumble Bee" song
For preschoolers a rhyming song. Also, your child will us their imagination.
How To: Cross the street safely
For pre-schoolers this is a lesson tune about crossing the street. It teaches children to be safe when crossing a street by holding an adults hand and looking both ways. Preschool video lesson tunes are short songs or chants with an educational message done to a familiar tune.
How To: Teach young children about dental cleaning of teeth
This video is for children to see and learn how a dentist cleans their teeth. Cullen brings Alligator to Dr. Keller the dentist for a teeth cleaning. Dr. Keller cleans the Alligators teeth to show children what to expect and feel comfortable when visiting the dentist for a teeth cleaning.
How To: Make a Halloween spider web
For preschoolers a painting activity that uses round rolling objects to paint. In this video golf balls dipped in white paint are used make a Halloween spider web! Art gives your child a chance to express themselves through their imagination. Art allows children to explore and understand their world through creative experiences that emphasize the process of art, not the product. When your child is creating there is no right or wrong way, only their way. (Art instruction does not have specific...
How To: Make a candy corn with tissue paper
For preschoolers a great art and science activity! Lot's of small motor skills are involved with brushing and placing tissue paper. The reaction from the tissue paper and vinegar is the exciting science element of the activity. Art gives your child a chance to express themselves through their imagination. Art allows children to explore and understand their world through creative experiences that emphasize the process of art, not the product. When your child is creating there is no right or wr...