With International Talk Like a Pirate Day just around the corner (September 19th), we decided to bring a bit of pirate fun to our classroom this year. One question my kids wanted to know was, how did pirates navigate? How did the terrors of the sea know where to go to find other ships to …
Peeps are an essential part of Easter at our house. But this year, rather than simply eating the fluffy marshmallow goodness, we decided to make our Peeps experience a little more educational with Peeps science experiments. We added this experiment to our collection of Easter STEM activities! We decided to conduct a series of easy STEM activities …
We are all big color lovers here. Anything bright, colorful, and fun is just what we like. We love color and rainbows so much, we even threw a rainbow party one year. This spring, our theme is rainbows. Today, celebrate all the colors of the rainbow with these delicious rainbow recipes for kids! 50 Rainbow Recipes …
We are huge board game lovers at our house. We have always played quite intensive board games since I was a child (actually, farther back than that, my dad was a board game geek since college with the likes of Diplomacy). When my husband joined the family, he embraced the board game culture and jumped …
Whether it’s summer or spring, or any other season, you’ll always find us doing spring STEM activities and science experiments for kids. Behind our house in the middle of the city is a ravine. If you walk down the running trail behind our house, you are transported from urban life to a forest environment that …
What is one of the most important elements of any party? Food! Because we are talking circus party, the circus party menu had to be on-theme. Did you know it was difficult to find un-shelled peanuts and various other circus foods in the middle of January? It is! My biggest trouble was our party favors. I …