Best family games: board game addition

50+ Best Family Games: (2025) Parent-Tested Games Everyone Can Play

Will you be looking for board games for gifts in 2022? If you’ve exhausted your stash of board or card games with your family and need new ideas or maybe just need ideas of things to do with your whole family, we’ve surveyed our readers for the best games for family game night. And our readers seem to be quite the board/card game experts! We took their advice and added a few board game ideas of our own.

Easley Pickens Christmas Things to Do

Exciting Christmas Events in Pickens and Easley, SC

Looking for holiday things to do in Easley? If you don’t live in Greenville County, it can feel like all the festivities are a long drive away, but that is simply not true. Here are activities in Easley and Pickens County for the whole family to enjoy this holiday season.

Children and mom meeting a llama at Earthshine Lodge in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina

You Can Hike With Llamas at Earthshine Lodge

Would your family enjoy a weekend trip to the mountains for a chance to hike with llamas? Kidding Around Greenville contributor Liene visited a retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains with her family, and found the llama hike to be an enthralling experience – one of many Earthshine Lodge has to offer!

Spartanburg Thanksgiving Break

Things to Do Over Thanksgiving Break in Spartanburg, SC

Looking for something fun to do with friends and family over Thanksgiving break in Spartanburg? Local mom India Menon offers ideas for Thanksgiving family-fun activities in Spartanburg. Whatever the weather or your family’s interests, there is something for everyone.

Holiday Things to Do: Spend a Day in Downtown Greenville, SC

Are you looking for a festive way to spend some time in Downtown Greenville, SC for Christmas? Now that the holiday season has arrived, we’ve gathered up some ideas for a festive day spent in downtown Greenville packed with holiday things to do. Here, you will find suggestions for places to go in downtown Greenville using the free trolley, information on Greenville’s Holiday Happenings events, and lots more.

Experience gift ideas for Greenville, South Carolina

50+ Experience Gifts in Greenville, SC & The Upstate That Don’t Take Up Space

You have found our giant list of experience gifts in Greenville and Spartanburg, SC! Closet, toy boxes and toy shelves a little full? So many toys in your house its too hard to pick one to play with? We get it. With the holidays quickly approaching, the toy problem increases. So, we’ve created a list of experience gifts available in Greenville, Spartanburg, and surrounding areas that families will love. You’ll make memories, learn new things, and they won’t take up any space in the toy box, either! So when Grandma calls and asks what the kids would like for Christmas this year, just send her this list.

practical gifts for kids

10+ Practical Gifts that Your Kids Will Love

Trying to find some practical gifts the kids will love? If your kids are like my kids, they not only already have plenty of toys and gadgets but they also have a whole family of grandparents, aunts, and uncles who eagerly shower them with cool gifts this time of year. In fact, usually the gifts from relatives way outshine the gifts that my husband and I buy for the kids ourselves. And, that’s fine.

live nativities in greenville sc

Live Nativities to Visit Near Greenville, SC

Searching for “live nativity near me”? We’ve pulled together a list of nearby live nativity events to visit this season near Greenville, SC. However you choose to experience the live nativity, we hope you have fun!  And if you know of any live nativities not on this list, please let us know with a comment below.

Celebrate a Christmas birthday

10 Ways to Celebrate Your Child’s Birthday Around the Holidays

Does your child have a birthday near the holidays? If you are looking for ways to celebrate birthdays near holidays, you’ve come to the right place. A Spartanburg mom has provided readers with ten ways to celebrate your child’s birthday around the holidays here in Spartanburg.

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