Welcome to the most awesome math art holiday project you can imagine: make a Christmas tree out of a Sierpinski fractal triangle. Okay, I realize there is a lot to unpack in that statement. Let’s start with something easier to grasp. This math art project is a great STEAM activity for kids to do at home,…
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Make Your Own LEGO© Board Game
Hold on to your stack of LEGO bricks, I’m about to tell you about the one thing that is going to make your kids love LEGO even more. This idea checks all the right boxes. It’s an idea that promotes independent play and family connection. It requires creative, inventive thought. It gets siblings of different ages working…
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Gift Guide for Young Coders and Engineers
If you want your kids to learn coding skills and become savvy about computers but don’t want them to stare at screens all day, these gifts for kids who want to code are for you. You’ll be happy to know that coding skills are actually best learned through play! This gift guide for kids focuses on…
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Christmas Science Experiments You Will Actually Want to Do!
I know you are looking for something unique for the holiday season, something that doesn’t involve baking 25 dozen cookies. Am I right? Something you can do with your kids that doesn’t involve listening to Jingle Bells over and over? Something that doesn’t involve words like “Black Friday” or “Sales” or “Do you want that…
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One Whole Year of Splendid STEAM Projects for Kids
Remember when I gave you a list of 40 household items you can use to create spectacular, eye-popping STEAM and STEM projects right now? Well, now I’m back with 52 STEAM projects for you and your kids to make with those items. That’s the equivalent of one project per week for one whole year. Think what…
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You Already Have these 40 Items to Do STEAM Projects at Home
Is one of your biggest hurdles for doing science projects at home the lack of materials? It’s mine. No doubt about it. The project may look super awesome and totally wower-ific, but if I have to track down even a one of speciality item I throw up my hands. With the emphasis on STEAM learning these days, you might…
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Why A Story Telling Time Game is the Best Way to Teach Kids
This Mystery Clock activity is a telling time game that makes a nice break from all those clock worksheets and is much, much more fun, not to mention a more effective way to help kids learn! Mystery Clock teaches kids to tell time by combining math and literacy in a game format. It actually has been many…
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Summer Camp at Home: Budget-Friendly Plans
I know summer is supposed to be fun and fancy free, but don’t you ever feel completely overwhelmed at the idea of having your kids at home with you 24/7? I’ll be the first to admit it. I do. Which is why it’s good to have a backup plan to the simple declaration, “This will…
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DIY Summer Math Camp: Budget-Friendly Activity Plans
Summer camp is really expensive. Maybe not where you live, but in our area, sending one kid to camp costs thousands of dollars. I’d love to be able to tell my kids to keep themselves busy with free play 24/7 for 2 and half months, but then there is a lot of sibling fighting, and…….
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35+ Make Your Own Puzzles for Kids: Ideas for all Ages
If you’ve perused this blog at all you will have noticed that we love puzzles. While one of my kids had a rabid love of jigsaw puzzles at a young age, the other did not. However, both kids enjoyed out of the box puzzle ideas that we made ourselves, and fortunately there are many types…
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