STEM projects for kids

Soap clouds are a fun and easy experiment to do with your kids in the kitchen. If you need more soap fun try making your own soap for the tub.

Houseplants are a beautiful addition to your home, but it can also help your health by keeping the air clean. Plants like aloe vera, Chinese evergreen, English ivy, moth orchid, peace lily, and snake plant can contribute to the quality of your home's air.

Kitchen & Garden Inspiration

If you'd like to use a candy experiment at your science fair , here are the guidelines: Your science fair project should be your own work. ...

This is a brilliant kid craft--so brilliant that you may indeed find yourself playing with it too. Not that I'd have any experience with tha...

This colorful rainbow jar is a surprisingly simple kids' science experiment! In fact, you probably already have everything you'll need.

This is one of those cool "so-thats-how-it-works" projects that is an easy weekend activity to teach yourself (or your kids) the basics of how a battery operates.

Recycle a cereal box and a soda can and what do you get? At Instructables Paul Em shows us how to turn these throwaways into slick travel-size

As the mama of a preschooler, and the teacher of a series of art camps for preschoolers, I'm writing this post today to share some of my favorite Top 12 Arts and Crafts Materials for Preschoolers (ages 3-5) If you missed my first post about my favorite materials for Toddlers (ages 2-3) check it out here. I still use all of those materials with my toddlers but I add some new ones to the mix. 1. Drawing Materials/Tools and 2. Lots of Paper Colored pencils, Crayola Twistables (no sharp points…

Do your kids enjoy learning about how things work? Do they love to solve problems? Did they grow up reading classics such as HTML for Babies?? If so, you may be raising an engineer in-the-making! Here are some of our favorite play ideas and activities to foster the next generation of innovators. Newspaper Play Structures — …

An earthy activity from Science Buddies

I am SO excited by being able to blog about making a collage of words in any shape! So many people know about Wordle which lets you make awesome “word clouds,” but today we’re going to play around with a fun website called Tagxedo, which in my opinion, is like Wordle on steroids! Now, onto […]

enough to heat a garage.....this site tells you how to do it with soda cans ... heat a greenhouse. Dog houses in the winter?

You’ve probably seen contestants on Survivor trying to make fire by rubbing sticks together or concentrating sunlight with their eyeglasses. But among

Nothing about spelling, everything about learning

Arduino Controlled Interactive Wallpiece: This project is a subset of my idea of an interactive wall.. so this is an interactive wall-piece.. What does it do ? Mine is a touch activated light display. How does it work? It is controlled by an Arduino UNO which senses the inputs and …