These wooden battle bot electronic toys are really awesome and are a great hands-on introduction for building and learning about motors and circuitry. Instructions The instructions came in a handheld booklet of a few pages. The illustrations are clear for the bigger pictures and a little obscure for the smaller pictures i.e. the screws. There […]
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This is always one of the coolest projects to do- making crystallized ornaments out of borax and pipe cleaners! For a fun Fall/Halloween edition, we turned our pipe cleaners into ghosts, pumpkins, and spiders. What kind of spooky or non-spooky ornament will you make? Tag me @playinquiremakelearn, I’d love to see your Halloween projects and feature
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Today’s art lesson was inspired by Dadaist, Marcel Duchamp. His artwork is titled “Happy Accident String Drop”. This is a really fun and inventive art project involving different lengths of strings and colorful paint. Being that it’s process art- we aren’t going to focus on the end product! Instead, we are going to enjoy dropping
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Today we opened up our Paleontology Starter Kit from KiwiCrate. My boys had such a blast with this set! There are a few activities that came with this kit. One was the excavation of dinosaur fossils. Digging out the fossils with the tools was of course the fun part! As the kids dug out their
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For our homeschool art lesson this week, we learned about Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, or simply, Michaelangelo. Here’s an interesting fact that we learned: It was recognized that Michaelangelo did not paint the artwork on the ceiling while laying down as was once assumed! He painted standing upright, looking up, and as a result,
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This week we covered the cardiovascular system. We used quite a few resources to have some fun with our learning. We used flashcards to help learn the flow of blood to and from the heart, worked on activities to label the parts of the heart, used an app called TinyBop to review the heart and
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Are your kids a fan of Rube Goldberg chain reactions? And a fan of LEGOs? Then this LEGO chain reaction book is a really great way to combine the two! We had fun building this “quintopple” chain reaction. Watch the video later and don’t forget to Pin it! So first off… Who is Rube Goldberg?
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We are enjoying our homeschool art lessons using Discovering Great Artists book. I love using these types of books as guides as they include a little background information on the artist as well as including a famous painting. There is also a paired activity to complete that’s similar in fashion to the technique the artist
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My youngest child loves animals! If he could, he would own and take care of every single animal that exists! He is such a caring and compassionate young individual and so when he told me one of his careers would be to become a veterinarian, I researched the web and found these Professional Starter Kits
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I love holidays as this is where I get lots of inspiration to do themed activities with my boys. I especially love STEAM/STEM Challenges as this helps to foster creativity and individuality. If you haven’t already, check out our Easter Egg Tape Resist Art and FREE Egg Template download here. On for today’s challenge, I
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