Below are some childcare and family oriented resource links you might find interesting and helpful:
CRAFT AND ACTIVITY IDEAS
Family Crafts

This website covers the gamut from stuff for the sports fans on your list to candlemaking and kiddie crafts.

All Crafts

Hundreds of free projects, with links to craft book sites.

Kids Domain

From cookies to Pokemon-themed crafts.  Kids can make gifts for all occasions.

Homemade Instruments

Fantastic recycled object instrument ideas.

CHILDCARE REFERAL AND ADVOCACY

Michigan 4C Association
Community Coordinated Child Care

The mission of the Michigan 4C Association is to foster children’s success and development through service to the early childhood care and education community.

Child Care Network

Child Care Network is a local referral and information service.  The organization provides parent education support through the video and book library, information on parenting classes and seminars and help with recognizing quality child care.  Child Care Network also offers help with child care scholarships.

CHILD AND FAMILY HEALTH ISSUES
Health Finder

This is a medical website that local doctors say is reliable.  It is a free guide to consumer health and human services information.  It was developed by the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Family Doctor

This is a medical website that local doctors say is reliable.  The site has health information for the whole family from the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Parenting Issues

This site covers parenting and school issues.

EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT
Encarta

The best for late-night elementary and middle school children.  Articles are easy to find, easy to read, and even include the proper citations for use in reports.  The parents section has a grade-by-grade list of milestones and learning-related articles.

Fact Monster

This site is a homework helper godsend.  The site is kid friendly and loaded with graphics and easy-to navigate links. 

Info Please

This site helps guide students through homework assignments 

Kids Click Web Portal

This is a web portal.  It contains links to thousands of appropriate sites.  The sites are categorized by subject.  All of the links on this site are easy to search through.  The links were compiled by libarians.

MESP

The Michigan Education Savings Plan is a stock based plan similar to a  401 (k).  Contributions are made with after tax dollars.

MET

The Michigan Education Trust pre-payment plan allows families to pay now for later tuition.  College costs are locked in.


FAMILY LIVING
All-Recipes

This site offers a wide variety of recipe ideas.  Many of them are very simple.  The site also offers basic cooking ideas and coupons.  One of the very interesting components of this site is that it is often possible to change the serving size of the recipe.  The computer will automatically rework the recipe. 

Household Organization and More

This site offers household help on a wide variety of issues and topics.  There are also many good recipes and "free stuff" available.

Williams-Senoma

This site has a wonderful on-line recipe collection from 40 years of Williams-Senoma special selection recipes.  You can also shop or access the gift registry from this site. 

KID FUN
Frog Sounds

Ths site has recordings of frog sounds from SE Michigan.

Pilkey

A hilarious site with riddles, jokes, drawing activities, etc.

Yucky

"The yuckiest site on the internet".  A great science site.  From this site you can access the Discovery Channel site, TLC site, Animal Planet and Discovery Health.  But the best part is the
YUCKY stuff for kids. 

Disney Fun

This site has everything Disney - vacations, crafts, merchandise, games and more.

MOVIE/VIDEO

Screen-It

This web site gives a pretty good rundown on the content for many older and newer movies and videos.  The site has a quick-view grid that is easy to read.  There is a narrative below the grid.  The site is worth using to determine if a new movie is appropriate for your child. 

Movie Rating

This website details every potentially objectionable element in new release movies.  The site does have some advertising for birth control. 
SERVICES

Washtenaw County

This Washtenaw County Directory of Services has been created to give you greater access to County services and programs.  .
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MAA
Michigan School Age Care Alliance
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Michigan AfterSchool Association
Links
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School-Age Notes

This website links you to the School Age notes monthly newsletter and additional resources for after-school professionals. 


Michigan After-School Partnership

The Michigan After-School Partnership website is now available at www.miafterschool.org.
The Michigan After-School Partnership (MASP) is a statewide network developing a shared vision and influencing others to believe in the power of after-school programs to help all children and youth succeed. MASP links stakeholders interested in improving outcomes for children and youth through school-based/school-linked and enrichment after-school programs.
My Education Connection

This is a portal to "one-stop" access to quality, on-line educational professional development offered in a variety of formats.  They offer both self-paced and instructor-led  courses on many different educational related topics.