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• West Shore Festivals, Fairs & Carnivals Families Won't Want to Miss Fall in Carlisle & the West Shore is not a season. It is a scheduling challenge involving pumpkins, p…
• 2026 West Shore Halloween Guide: Trick-or-Treat, Parades & Spooky Fun 🎃 👻 🕸️ 🍬2026 West Shore Halloween GuideTrick-or-treat nights, pumpkin celebrations, Hallow…
• Free Art Is Hiding Around Carlisle! Art Drop Day Returns 9/8 Somewhere around Carlisle, there may be a tiny piece of original art sitting on a bench, tucked near a do…
• Sponsored Fort Hunter Day Is Back 9/20! 13 Reasons Families Should Go This Fall Partner Content: Macaroni KID is proud to partner with Dauphin County Parks & Recreation to help loca…
• Beyond the Numbers: Making Sense of Early Parenthood Guest PerspectiveEarly parenthood comes with an astonishing number of numbers: ounces, hours, percentiles…
• Pizza, Pirates & Play-Doh: 10 September Holidays Kids Will Love Before you fully trade flip-flops for flannel, check your calendar: September 2026 is packed with holiday…
• Sponsored Pure Magic: The Rosemary House Fairy Festival Returns 9/12-9/13 Sponsored: The Rosemary House is a paid Macaroni KID promotional partner for this event. As always, the o…
• Sponsored Our Enchanted Return to the Rosemary House Fairy Festival We came for the wings and bubbles, stayed for the Irish music, and somehow left with Girl Scout cookies…
• Sponsored Meet the 2026 Carlisle & West Shore Family Favorites The Village VotedMeet the 2026 Carlisle & West Shore Family Favorites!From the places where our kids…
• September 2026 Freebies and Deals: Pizza, Chicken, Queso & More September brings plenty of reasons to let someone else cook and keep the kids busy without spending much.…
• Sponsored Still Need a Few Back-to-School Pieces? Shop These Walmart Picks If your kid's closet is already down to the shirt with the mystery stain and the jeans with the hole…
• How to Make Bingsu Slime (Yes, the Crunchy TikTok One) At some point, basic slime stopped being enough. Now there are cloud slimes, butter slimes, floam slimes,…
• Families Spend $1,500 a Year on Youth Sports. What About Yours? Families now spend about $1,500 a year on one child’s sports and activities. But nobody feels that…
• Can You Help Build Our New Family Resource Corners? It takes a village. We’re building it.Could your expertise become part of our Village?Macaroni KID…
• Sponsored Why Tennis is the Perfect Sport for Your Kid (And Your Sanity) SPONSORED RESOURCETennis Fun Presented by Net Ninja TennisWe are truly excited to feature Harrisburg News…
• Sponsored Getting Ready for Back-to-School With Your Special Needs Child SPONSORED RESOURCEBack-to-School Support Presented by Clear PathClear Path is a proud Macaroni KID partne…
• Sponsored Back-to-School IEP Checklist: Laugh, Plan & Conquer Laugh your way through the chaos and start the year strongStarting a new school year with an IEP student…
• Sponsored Pennsylvania Homeschool PE With a Life-Saving Purpose A note from Macaroni KIDFinding a physical education option that fits naturally into a homeschool (or, in…
• The No-Nag School Morning Routine That Gets Kids Out the Door By 7:32 a.m. I have usually asked at least one child to put on shoes, brush teeth, find a water bottle,…
• Stop Asking 'How Was School?' Try These 35 Questions Instead Your kid gets in the car or walks through the door, drops their backpack like it personally offended them…
• It Takes a Village. We’re Building It. I used to think a village was something you were lucky enough to be born into.Some people seem to arrive…