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2017 Jingle Rock Run Photo Booth

Honolulu Family Team,

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Education Cheat Sheet: Service Learning

Honolulu Family Team,

Photo: Tien EngaFamilies helped clear a lo‘i at Ka Papa Lo‘i O Kanewai in Mānoa as part of the 2017 HONOLULU Family Volunteer Day. What is service learning? Punahou School's Dan Kinzer gives us a deeper look. In short, we'll…

Make It: Christmas Photo Wreath

Michele Aucello,

Photo: Karen DB Photography Make this wreath for the grandparents, who will hang it up with pride. This homemade gift is a beautiful way to capture the memories of the past year and is sure to be treasured for years…

Make It: Keiki Decorated Dishes

Michele Aucello,

Photo: Karen DB PhotographySharpies, ceramic dishes and a little baking time create an adorable, handdrawn keepsake for your cupboards. Here's a way to keep your little one's drawings forever. Let them deck out ceramic plates, mugs or bowls and bake…

Holiday Guide

Make It: 3 Cute Holiday Lunch Box Treats

Michele Aucello,

Introducing the 2018 HONOLULU Family Cover Kids Winners

Honolulu Family Team,

You voted for them! More than 30,000 votes helped us select just four Cover Kids and eight runners up from more than 700 adorable kids who entered this year's Cover kids Search. These are the keiki you will see on…

Hawai‘i Farms

Inside Look: Keiki and Plow Organic Farm's U-Pick Harvests

Nicole Oka,

Kids can pick their own vegetables, feed chickens, pet rabbits and explore at this keiki-friendly, organic family farm in Hawai‘i Kai.

Holiday Shopping, Food, Crafts and More at Mele Kalikimaka Marketplace

Honolulu Family Team,

It’s the merriest shopping event of the year! The third annual Mele Kalikimaka Marketplace offers a variety of festive family activities, great food, fun make-and-take crafts, entertainment and one-stop holiday shopping—including a local gourmet gift section, an assortment of prepackaged gift…

Editor’s Page: The Holidays, After Hours

Christi Young,

Christi Young I’m one of those moms. As soon as the turkey is put away, I break out the Christmas decorations. I love the holidays: the music, the movies, the baking, the shopping and wrapping, and the little countdown to…

Sign Up: 2018 HONOLULU Family Volunteer Day presented by HMSA

Christi Young,

Photos: Karen DB PhotographyHoliday Cover Kid Micah at the Ulupō Heiau and Lo‘i in Kailua, one of the new locations for our 2018 Volunteer Day. We captured our Holiday 2017 Cover Kid, Micah, at the lo‘i just behind Ulupō Heiau—a…

We Tried It: Honolulu Theatre For Youth OnStage Workshop

Jennifer Carlile Dalgamouni,

Photo: Jennifer Carlile Dalgamouni Editor's Note: The next Onstage workshop will be Saturday, Feb. 25, for the production Rainbow. Click here for details. What: Honolulu Theatre For Youth's Onstage workshop for The Ballad of Mulan Where: Tenney Theatre Who: 5-…

Family Activities

Our Guide: The Best Kids Play Areas at Oʻahu's Malls

Jennifer Carlile Dalgamouni,

When your keiki get bored shopping, explore a treehouse, jump in water jets, climb up a maze or ride a surf board.

Education Cheat Sheet: Passion-Based Learning

Honolulu Family Team,

Photo: Courtesy of Asia Pacific International School Editor’s Note: In the third grade, my friends wanted to be firefighters, police officer, chefs and teachers. I wanted to be in advertising. I have the career day folder to prove it. I…

Challenge Your Keiki to Become Stakeholders in Hawai‘i’s Future

Honolulu Family Team,

The Hawaii: Next 50 contest challenges local youth to become stakeholders in our state’s future by considering what we can do to make Hawai‘i the best place to live, work and play. All Hawai‘i students in Grades 4–12 are invited…

2018 Cover Kids Finalist Voting

Honolulu Family Team,

Out of more than 700 cute keiki, your votes helped us select 50 semifinalists. Vote now to help us decide which four kids should be featured on our covers in 2018! Many of the semifinalists and runner-ups are called upon to…

Our Guide: Sea Life Park

Lavonne Leong,

Photo: Lavonne Leong Where: Sea Life Park, 41-202 Kalaniana‘ole Highway, Waimānalo Who: Three parents and three kids–two 6-year-olds and an 18-month-old. When: 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on a sunny high-season Sunday. I grew up going to Sea Life Park, perched…

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