How-To Make a Beaver Dam, a child-led learning experience
Inspired by an episode of Wild Kratts in which the Kratt brothers explained the construction of a beaver dam and beaver lodge, LittleMan rounded up a couple of the neighborhood children to pretend to...
View ArticleTracking A Deer
LittleMan and I were walking to the zoo for his science lessons when we noticed some things that gave us pause and we ended up studying something rather unexpected instead. It started when LittleMan...
View ArticleOn Beyond Zombie Linky Party #20
LittleMan and I were reading one of his many dinosaur books when he noticed a map at the top corner of the page, a map of Pangaea. Intrigued by the idea that the seven continents of the world all used...
View ArticleDIY Mud Kitchen
Last year we built a mud kitchen for our children and it was wholly popular among our children and their friends. Lots of big time messy play went down at that mud kitchen. While we loved our old mud...
View ArticleHow to Make Your Yard Wildlife Friendly – FOR FREE!
Watching wildlife in their own backyard is one of the most rewarding and inspiring activities that a child can do. I don’t even know the innumerable hours I spent as a child watching the squirrels...
View ArticleOutdoor Magnetic Board
One of the main staples of most any classroom is the board. A chalk board. A dry erase board. There always seems to be some sort of board. Teachers diagram concepts for their pupils. Students practice...
View ArticlePlastic Bottle Viking Longboat (part one)
LittleMan has inherited his mother’s knack for dreaming up big projects and, while we’re not always keen to jump on board with his time consuming and expensive ideas, we do try to support him when...
View ArticlePlastic Bottle Viking Longboat (part two)
If you haven’t already, go check out our tutorial on how to build a Viking Longboat out of plastic bottles. The following are the finished product pictures and LittleMan’s dreams come to fruition as we...
View ArticleSTEM Saturday: Kid-Approved Dino Game
Has this ever happened to you: You buy a card game for your kids and they don’t want to follow the rules to play it? I know I’ve been there before. And I think I’ve finally figured out why that is....
View ArticleLet Them Play
It was a wonderful Monday morning. While the rest of the world was hustling and bustling to school and work we were lounging in our pajamas, eating our breakfast slowly. I had woken up to the kids...
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