Here are some fun summer activities you might enjoy doing with your kids this summer with everything from making pony-bead lizards and bead bowls to marbleized paper! Have a great summer! ~Liesl A Huge List of Summer Activity Ideas! Nature Scavenger Hunt: Send your kids outside to complete this scavenger hunt! This printable is free! [TAG2]We also have a photo hunt: Have them take photos of the things on the list:[TAG3]Set up an Outdoor Treasure Hunt with QR Codes! Kids use the QR code reader to find their next clue! (Free printable at this post.)[TAG4]My kids also have fun setting up their own Mini-Golf Coarse Challenge! Children’s Games from Africa:When we did our unit on Africa some time back, we...
As we come up on our sixth anniversary of STEM Tuesday (yes – SIX years!) I thought it would be a great time to remind you of the AMAZING authors who make STEM Tuesday possible. The STEM Tuesday blog posts are written by a group of award-winning children’s authors, teachers, and writers who are passionate about presenting STEM/STEAM topics in a way that kids of all ages will find exciting, inspiring, and engaging. You can find more information about each of them by visiting their websites, purchasing some of their books, and also inviting them to your schools and conferences. And now….. Meet the STEM Tuesday TEAM! Week 1: Book List Sue Heavenrich Sue Heavenrich is an independent...
It’s no secret that there are a lot of things going on in the bathroom that are better left unsaid. It’s one of the rare places in a house where people spend the most time naked or with their pants around their ankles. People spend most of their time staring off into space. That’s all the more reason to spruce up the bathroom with decor, potpourri, and curtains. Bathroom curtains are the piece that ties the bathroom together. It’s the starting point for decorating the bathroom and influencing the other aspects of this sacred space. It turns out that bathroom curtains are more complex than people realize. For a basic bathroom, you need to focus on windows and shower curtains....
1999 is often considered one of the greatest years in Hollywood history. From "The Matrix" to "Fight Club," many films released that year remain important cultural touchstones. The 1990s was also one of the most prolific eras for independent filmmaking; the classics from this decade run the gamut from funny, to tragic, to downright strange. Those three words provide a succinct description of the 1999 classic "Girl, Interrupted," a film that still resonates today, especially with the younger generations of young women."Girl, Interrupted" is based on Susanna Kaysen's memoir of the same name, and follows an 18-year-old girl who checks herself into a psychiatric hospital in 1967. While there, Susanna (Winona Ryder) meets a group of eclectic women who make...
It can often be too gloomy to venture out over the winter months. Stop cabin fever and the groans of “I’m boreddd” in its tracks with these kid-friendly indoor activities. To help inspire, we’ve partnered with Betty Crocker to round up seven activities that spark fun, creativity, and learning—not to mention special moments of connection. Read on for indoor-spriation. Go Camping In Your Living Room You don’t have to venture far or rely on good weather to go ‘camping’. Instead, use a little imagination and transform the living room into an indoor campsite. You can opt to pitch the tent (sans pegs) or simply drape sheets over chairs to form a makeshift hut. Snuggle up with pillows and blankets and...
