So glad you’re still with us! Just in case you’ve missed some of our recent fun activities, here are a few ideas for Summer — 50+ Summer Activities for Kids If you need a quick & easy activity for your kids, try one of these 20 Summer Scavenger Hunts! Looking for low-cost ideas …
Kids Activities & Crafts
Try this creative idea f One summer, our kids decided they wanted to start their own club. A secret club. “One that only has kids allowed Mom — you can’t come in, okay?“ It’s one of those times as a parent when you’re excited for the creativity and independence but also a little skeptical about …
Creative activities for kids who have to fidget, move and stay active! Our kids could never sit still during reading time. They would ask to build block towers, do headstands on the couch so they could see the book upside down or color while we read aloud. Even as they got older, there would always …
Even though we only get the newspaper once a week, we always seem to have a pile of it lying around the house or tossed in the recycle bin. In fact, that was my inspiration for our DIY Eiffel Tower project! Why go out and spend money on building materials when you have some great …
Paint a t-shirt using heat from the sun — an awesome craft for teens & kids this summer! You know when you find those inspirational points where two seemingly unrelated things collide? Like frozen hot chocolate?! You think “Man, I’m not sure how that came together but it just works!” That’s what we have for …
The Olympics are fun for everyone to watch – kids included! Wouldn’t your kids love to participate in their own Olympics?!
Thanks to Angie, a great mom & party planner, here’s a fun way to get kids more involved in celebrating during the Olympic Games this summer!
Get creative with these 20 fun things to do with a deck of cards! Have you ever needed an activity to keep the kids busy while you’re out to dinner or waiting at the doctor’s office? You know, something you could keep in your purse or car and pull out at a moments notice …
Try these cool chemistry experiements for kids using carbon dioxide & see the invisible! Summer Science is back and we are exploring chemistry this week! We’ve worked our way through geology, biology, astronomy and physics. If you’ve missed any of the science activiites we are sharing along with those from our super cool collaborator Inspiration …
Welcome back to our Summer Science series — today’s science theme is Geology!
This is a favorite area of science for kids for two reasons — explosions and digging 🙂
I don’t know about your house but in ours, there are rocks everywhere! I’m not kidding — on the science table, stacked up near the garden in the backyard, in the dryer (yep, it seems like every week I’m pulling rocks out of someone’s pocket).
What can I say, kids are attracted to rocks.
Since they’re going to collect the darn things anyway, why not spin it into some great hands-on learning 😉 Shhh…don’t tell them.
I’m super excited about today’s activity! Why? It’s a fun way to get the kids outside PLUS there’s some math involved AND there’s also an element of surprise! So your kids won’t even notice the math & learning that’s involved 😉 And it’s super easy to do in your own yard or neighborhood. …