HONOLULU Family’s 2025 Hawai‘i Summer Programs Guide
Brush up on art, enhance your academics, or learn how to play an instrument or a new sport this summer.
Author: Honolulu Family Team
Vote Now: Best of HONOLULU Family 2025
Nominate your favorite services, shops, restaurants and more! Voting ends Feb. 28, 2025.
Holiday Crafts and Recipes to Try with Your Family This Year
Activities to keep keiki busy all season long.
HONOLULU Family Fall 2024: Meet Our Cover Kid!
We had a blast shooting our cover with 7-year-old Natalie at Keiki Kingdom.
Top Doctors and Best Dentists for Kids
Here are the recommended doctors and dentists for kids in Hawai‘i.
Introducing Our 2024 HONOLULU Family Cover Kids Winners
You voted. Here are the keiki you’ll see on our covers and within the pages of HONOLULU Family in 2024!
HONOLULU Family’s 2024 Cover Kids Search
We’re looking for kids with great smiles and bubbly personalities to feature in HONOLULU Family in 2023!
6 Places Where You Can Meet Baby Animals on O‘ahu
Here are the petting zoos, parks and family-run farms where you can have interactive animal experiences on O‘ahu.
Oahu‘s 2023 Summer Fun Program
Thousands of keiki on O‘ahu are expected to participate from June 13 to July 28—here’s how to sign up.
Introducing our 2023 HONOLULU Family Cover Kids Winners
You voted. Here are the keiki you’ll see on our covers and within the pages of HONOLULU Family in 2023!
Vote for Our 2023 Cover Kids presented by Kapolei Commons
Could your keiki be our next Cover Kid?
Good Reads: New Books to Add to Your Keiki’s Bookshelf
Kid-recommended books for your keiki.
HONOLULU Family’s 2022 Hawai‘i Summer Programs Guide
Brush up on art, enhance your academics or tackle a STEAM project in-person or online this summer.
HONOLULU Family’s Surprise Easter Bunny Box
Hop into spring fun with our surprise box of treats the bunny will send right to your door.
Vote Now for the 2022 Best of HONOLULU Family
Our annual Best of HONOLULU Family celebrates the best keiki-friendly businesses—everything from local sake to seafood boil, bank to barbershop—our island has to offer, chosen by our editors and our savvy readers. Show some love and support for your…
5 Hawai‘i Memberships to Gift Your Keiki for Christmas
Here’s another way to support local. We break down what you’ll get with an annual membership at five local parks and activity centers.
Make It With the Family: Play Snow for Building Snowmen in Hawai‘i
Pack away the Play Doh for the winter. This moldable snow smells great and is so simple kids can mix it up by themselves.
Make It With the Family: Holiday Fluffy Slime
It’s the most wonderful slime of the year. A gooey keiki favorite receives a fluffy, festive makeover in adorably decorated Mason jars.
Make It with the Family: Fern-Printed Wrapping Paper
Go green (and red) with festive wrap that keiki stamp with their own backyard finds.
Make It With the Family: 3D Paper Holiday Ornaments
Colorful paper, a good pair of scissors (or cutting machine) and a little glue are all you need for handmade decorations that pop.
Where to Find Santa in Honolulu in 2021
Where can your kids find Santa Claus this weekend? Here is our list for this holiday season.
HONOLULU Family’s Special Delivery From Santa Presented By Hawai‘i Dental Service
It’s never too early to start your holiday shopping, and we’ve teamed up with Santa to bring Island keiki an extra special holiday gift.
Up For the Challenge? Brighten Up Your Communities With “Chalk Your Walk Hawaiʻi”
Join our #ChalkYourWalkHI challenge this spring to spread aloha in your neighborhoods.
Your Weekend: The Best Family Fun in Honolulu from March 18–25, 2021
Volunteer outside, visit fairies, save a space at a free drive-in movie and more.
2021 Hawai‘i Summer Programs Guide
Brush up on art, enhance your academics or tackle a STEAM project in-person or online this summer.
Financial Help Available: Preschool Open Doors in 2021
2016-10-2 Finding the right education for your child is priceless. Paying for it, however, can be challenging, especially for families already on a tight budget. Preschool Open Doors can help. The program that works to ensure that every child attends…
13 Classic and New Books We Love for Read Across America Day
Happy birthday Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel! In honor of his big day and Read Across America, we asked our team for their favorite kids books.
Foodland’s Grocery Service Was Made for Busy Moms
Even Supermom can’t do it all. No matter how well you can juggle work, home and family life, it always helps to have help. With Foodland to You, Foodland’s easy online grocery service, busy moms can shop and buy their groceries…
Your Weekend: The Best Family Fun-February 18, 2021
Image: Courtesy of BAMkids Film Festival"Kapaemahu" is one of the short films showcased in the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) film festival for kids. BAMkids Film Festival There is a bright side to the cancellation of big in-person events; virtual…
Hawai‘i Comfort Food: Tom Yum-Style Soup Recipe
An easier version of a Thai soup, this recipe is simple to make vegetarian or vegan for your family.
Hawai‘i Comfort Food: Wonton Soup Recipe
Simple dumplings to top off your fresh saimin noodles.
Your Weekend: The Best Family Fun-January 7, 2021
Photo: Hawaiʻi Nature Center Tree-mendous at the Hawaiʻi Nature Center The Makiki center has started its weekend workshops again and we couldn’t be happier. It starts Saturday when preschoolers can walk into the forest and learn more about the giant…
Make It with the Family: Shave Ice Cupcakes
These icy-looking treats won’t melt even on sunny winter days.
Family Holiday Events in Hawaiʻi-2020
Updated: Dec. 22, 2020 Itʻs officially the holiday season and weʻre ready to celebrate! Here is our list of events and activities to get your family in the spirit of things. Please note that many centers are still working on…
Your Weekend: The Best Holiday Family Fun-December 17, 2020
Photo: Courtesy of Ice Cubed Hawai'i Editorʻs Note: We will be taking a few weeks off to spend the holidays with our family. Weʻll see you back with our first Weekend Guide of 2021 (phew!) on Jan. 7. Make-A-Snowman Kit…
Meet Our 2021 HONOLULU Family Cover Kids Winners
You voted. Here are the kids you’ll see on our covers in 2021!
Make It With the Family: Shaka Wreath
Track your keiki’s growth each year with this handy holiday wreath.
What’s Reopening in Honolulu for Families
Updated May 15, 2021. You’ve planted the garden, baked bread from scratch, opened every old birthday art and science kit stacked up in the corner and downloaded innumerous apps. Let’s face it. We all need something new, or at…
Make this Halloween spook-tacular with Foodland’s Maikai recipes
Sponsored Looking for fun recipes to celebrate Halloween with your keiki? Thanks to Foodland's Maikai products, coming up with ideas for festive treats is quick, easy and sure to satisfy any sweet craving. Maikai is Foodland's brand that features products inspired by…
2020 Private School Open House Guide
Photo: Courtesy of ʻIolani SchoolThe new K-1 classrooms at ʻIolani School incorporate natural elements. Assets School Grades K–8: Jan. 30, 2021, at 12:30 p.m. Grades 9–12: Jan. 30, 2021, at 9 a.m. Join us for Assets School’s VIRTUAL Open House.…
Your Weekend: The Best Family Fun-October 15, 2020
Photo: Courtesy of Waimānalo Country Farms Facebook page Waimānalo Country Farms Drive-Thru Pumpkin Patch We’re sorry to tell you that all weekend spots are already taken. But you do have two more weeks to pick your own pumpkin on the…
New Hawaiʻi Childrens Book Turns Tasks Into Fun Math Lessons
The best math games and apps, according to math professors at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s CRDG. Plus, a peek at their new math book for kids.
Your Weekend: The Best Family Fun-July 23, 2020
The Hawaiʻi Polo Life team and their ponies. Editor's Note: As of Saturday, July 25, the polo matches were canceled ahead of Hurricane Douglas. Contact organizers of these events for the latest. For a list of places closed because of…
Festival of Hope Brings Much-Needed Support to Families Affected by COVID-19
Child and Family Service (CFS) hosted the Festival of Hope for Families, funded by the First Hawaiian Bank Foundation, on Saturday, May 9th, 2020 from 9 a.m. to noon at the CFS Ewa Beach campus. Participants were able to sign-up…
