During the summer, I like to keep my kids busy with summer learning activities for kids that they ordinarily do not do during the year. Because I work from home, often we don’t get to do many fun hands-on activities throughout the year. I like to give them summer educational activities to keep their skills up …
Summer STEM Activities
Summer is a magical time for kids, and there are so many options for summer camp, usually! Not this year, though! This year, bring the summer camp to your own backyard when you make your own slime summer camp! But if you’ve shopped around for summer camps, you know that some camps think parents are …
One of the biggest fascinations of many kids, including mine, is space. Kids love all things planets, rockets, and outer space. Today, we combined two of my kids biggest loves, slime and the solar system and make this fun solar system slime recipe! I was inspired to make the solar system out of slime when …
We love summer STEM activities! Exploding paint rockets are not just a fun art project, but they are also a complete STEM activity! The exploding paint bombs STEAM activity includes all elements of science, technology, engineering, and math, making it the perfect summer STEM activity. It’s the chemical reaction in this science experiment for kids …
Shark week is the best. Although I didn’t hear about it until my kids were born, apparently it has been running since 1988, so nearly 30 years. My kids love sharks almost as much as they love dinosaurs, so we definitely embrace shark week around here. These shark week activities are perfect for kids to …
If your kids love the ocean and all ocean creatures, they will love making this paper plate seahorse craft! The seahorse is so simple to make, but the addition of black glue makes it stand out from other seahorse crafts. Do this craft as part of your ocean science experiments! Your kids will have a …