This shouldn’t be such a hard decision. Bee has this at the top of her list of gifts she’d like for the holidays. Our hesitation isn’t because the toy oven has an age recommendation of 6 and up. No… wait, is it 7 and up? I’ll go look… hold on… holy cow, you aren’t going [...]
Archive for the ‘Science with Kids’ Category
To Easy Bake, or not to Easy Bake?
Posted in Cooking With Kids, Familyhood, Healthy Habits, Making Stuff, merch, Our House, Science with Kids, Things We Like, Unplugged Project on November 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Studies: Millions of US Kids Lacking Vitamin D
Posted in Found Items, Healthy Habits, Science with Kids on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In keeping with posts about the benefits of outdoor play, we have this article. The researchers and others blamed the low levels on a combination of factors, including children spending more time watching television and playing video games instead of going outside, covering up and using sunscreen when they do go outdoors, and drinking more [...]
Free Parent’s Guide to Nature Play (+intro to C&NN)
Posted in Adventures, Books, Found Items, Healthy Habits, Science with Kids, Things We Like on July 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here’s a great resource I was turned on to by the Children and Nature Network. First, a little about C&NN: The Children & Nature Network (C&NN) was created to encourage and support the people and organizations working worldwide to reconnect children with nature. C&NN provides access to the latest news and research in the field [...]
Lightning Bugs
Posted in Adventures, Found Items, Games, Science with Kids, Things We Like on July 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
These little buggers are tricky to photograph. I’ll do a better job of it sometime, but for now – this is what you get. Bee has been having many evenings of firefly catching this summer – and she is wicked good at it, catching 3 at a time sometimes. This is one evening’s bounty – [...]
Jr. Horologist Links from the National Watch and Clock Museum
Posted in Found Items, Making Stuff, Science with Kids, Unplugged Project on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Teach and learn about time keeping, clocks, and watches with your kids and this page of Just For Kids activities and informational links from the National Watch and Clock Museum. Make It Yourself (click on each for PDFs of directions) Hourglass Water clock Fruit clock Incense clock Pendulum Power Sundial Coloring Pages The National Watch [...]
Turtle Rescue
Posted in Adventures, Books, Familyhood, Our House, Science with Kids on June 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
We rescued this turtle from a road it was crossing (there was nowhere to go on the other side of the road because of a long steep bank). It came home with us for the day, and in the evening we let it go at the edge of the woods. (Bee and Turtle regard one [...]
Good News Everyone!
Posted in Found Items, Science with Kids, Things We Like on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is about my family, in that I’m happy for my new baby to be born into a world that couldn’t hold Futurama down! Bender’s back, baby!
Galileoscope
Posted in Found Items, merch, Science with Kids on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m linking you over to an enthusiastic post about a really great product that you can get for 15.00 – The Galileoscope. Orders placed before the end of May (today) help to insure continued production at this very low price. 400 years ago this year, people first started turning the newly invented telescope to the [...]
Safe Sites for Kids
Posted in Found Items, Games, Science with Kids on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I learned of three recommended safe sites for kids recently, from a The Week magazine highlight from pcmag.com. How is that for a convoluted introduction? Safesurfer.org Is a kid haven full of games, resources, and news. Helps entertain kids while pointing them to sites they can safely enjoy on the rest of the Web. Exploratorium.edu [...]
Easy Homemade Dog Cookies
Posted in Cooking With Kids, Familyhood, Making Stuff, Our House, Science with Kids, Things We Like on May 19, 2009 | 5 Comments »
On a recent rainy day – we wanted to make cookies. Bee was bonding with Fergie big-time on this particular day, so we decided to make dog cookies (treats, biscuits, goodies). Web searches turned up too much information – we wanted something simple, and this is what we came up with. Hopefully people doing a [...]
