Learning, Play, STEM Activities, and Thing to Do!
This spring craft for kids is so simple and fun! Make your own paper plate duck pond. The ducks really swim around the pond when you move a magnet under the plate! Spring is here, and we are so happy about it! Spring is a great time to learn about pond life, ducks, frogs, and…
Rainy day? Bored kids? Try making some paper crafts! If you need a craft idea to make with kids, paper is such a great way to go. It’s cheap, and you probably always have paper around! Here are 20 fun crafts to make with this simple, budget-friendly material. You may need to add a little…
Spring is finally here, and we’ve got some new LEGO® building ideas to go with the new season! Build some adorable bunnies, the cutest chicks, and colorful butterflies. Then find somewhere fun to display them! I’m trying something new this time and offering both video and pictorial instructions. My son worked really hard to help…
Siri can be useful for finding the nearest gas station, but she can also have some super hilarious conversations with you! Here are 20 funny questions to ask Siri that are appropriate and family friendly. (Yeah, not all her jokes are clean…) My boys love to ask Siri funny things, but you never know quite…
Well, if you’ve been around here for any length of time, you know that we love to use LEGO® bricks for all kinds of hands-on math activities. I mean, why buy more manipulatives when you can just use what kids love anyway? Here’s a great way to really drive home the concept of place value…
Use your LEGO® bricks to construct a fun contraption that shoots discs REALLY far! Kids will love this fun LEGO® building idea. This is different from our LEGO® catapult because it pushes the projectile straight forward with a lot of force, rather than flinging it into the air. Both projects are really cool for learning…
Several months ago, a video caught my attention on Instagram. It was a fascinating educational toy for kids that featured tiny marbles being “handed” down a track through a series of switches. Besides being interesting to watch, I could tell that the Turing Tumble was a toy that would develop higher-level thinking in kids. Well,…
Grab some marbles! This simple science experiment is such an easy and fascinating way to demonstrate how energy is transferred from one object to another. Energy is defined as the ability to do work. We learned about the difference between potential energy (stored energy), and kinetic energy (the energy of moving things). Our ping pong…
This collection of funny math jokes will crack up your students and kids! Some are best for elementary school, although I’ve included jokes that will be funny for algebra and geometry students too. Some of the high school jokes are the best because kids have to have some knowledge in order to get them –…
Thinking of getting a pet? Or maybe your kids are begging for one, but you’re worried about the mess, the expense, and possible safety issues. What if the new pet bites? I’ve got to admit… we are pet people! We’ve owned a LOT of pets over the years… And I realized that since we have…
Here’s a fun letter sounds activity that you can set up in just a few minutes with a muffin pan, paper cupcake liners, and small objects from around the house! We’ve been loving using muffin tins for learning lately. Last week, we did a muffin tin coin counting activity, and while I was setting that…
I don’t know about you, but I am always looking for ways to make school easier. I am homeschooling five kids (10th grade, 7th, 4th, 1st, and preschool), and it can be hard to keep everyone busy at the same time! This morning I grabbed a muffin tin, some cupcake liners, and our coin jar…
