This activity will be part of our book FUNctional STEAM: 25 Real World Activities for Problem-Solving Kids! We are bouncing-on-our-toes excited for this. Now go ahead and try the activity for FREE and then put your name on the waitlist to hear when the book is ready for action. A picture of a hamburger is […]
This activity will be part of our book FUNctional STEAM: 25 Real World Activities for Problem-Solving Kids! We are bouncing-on-our-toes excited for this. Now go ahead and try the activity for FREE and then put your name on the waitlist to hear when the book is ready for action. Do you think it is important […]
Summer is coming! Maybe already here for some of you with kids out early. Ours kids still have a few weeks left until summer vacation and they are chomping at the bit to be done. And we want to know what YOU are looking for this summer. I’ve heard a call for outdoor learning activities […]
Summer break is here! And many parents wondering what they are going to do with their children to keep them from putting the dog in the washing machine. As a kid, three months of play without school, homework, and getting out of bed is almost too much to handle. But as an adult, summer break […]
Dinosaurs! I swear that the biggest words my son knows are those huge dinosaur names that I can’t even pronounce! But for all the talk about what dinosaurs ate, where they lived, and whether they ACTUALLY rode on trains together, I haven’t seen a lot about dinosaur footprints. But we know so much about dinosaurs […]
Flutter like a butterfly. Buzz like a bee. Kids are endlessly fascinated by insects so lets be a little more buggy! This die is the perfect game for littles. Play it with them or allow them to use the pictures to decide their own actions. You can also use it as a conversation started about […]
Imagine you are out and about on a family adventure. Suddenly one of the kids finds a crazy cool bug. Never seen one like that before! What is it? Do they usually live around here? Wow, I sure wish there was a website where I could record that I saw this amazing insect and maybe […]
This was originally published in our STEAM Outside program. But such an easy, fun family science opportunity has to be shared! When you go outside at night and look at the stars, what do you see? Do you see the great expanse of space and the ribbon of milky way across the sky? Or can […]
Yay Yay for Citizen Science Day! Coming up on April 14th is Citizen Science Day! I just know you have had it marked down on your calendar for MONTHS and MONTHS! Wait… you haven’t? You’ve never even heard of it before??! Well, we will fix that right up. What is citizen science? Let’s back up […]
Spring has sprung! The flowers, the new green leaves, little sprouts pushing up out of the ground, getting my hands dirty planting… Spring is just lovely all around. We are lucky enough to have some beautiful spring break weather to enjoy and the kids have been spending all day outside. But what if some days […]