As much as I enjoy carving pumpkins, I also get a big kick out of finding other creative ways to decorate pumpkins for Halloween. This year we decided to try making nail and yarn decorated pumpkins to create fun and colorful designs. Note: For more pumpkin decorating ideas, see my Halloween activities for Kids page. CAUTION! As with any […]
Halloween Coloring Pages for Kids
Just a few weeks ago I released a set of Jack-o-Lantern Coloring Pages featuring simple carved pumpkins for kids to color in. This week I am releasing a set of Halloween Coloring Pages featuring hats, bats, cats, ghosts, and more! This set of coloring pages includes some very simple images as well as a few […]
Halloween Peeps Science Experiment
You’ve probably heard of Peeps candies, which have become a classic holiday treat. Did you know there are now peeps for most of the major holidays? While I don’t like eating peeps, I do like using peeps for learning. 😉 In this post I’m sharing a Halloween Peeps science experiment we did to learn about […]
What happens to plants when given microwaved water? (Is it time to ditch the microwave?)
I grew up using a microwave on a daily basis. Half of what I ate in high school was something I took out of the freezer and popped into the microwave. As an adult, I began cooking my own food, but I continued to rely on a microwave to re-heat the food for a second […]
The floating egg {hands-on density experiment}
Have you ever noticed that it is easier to float in the ocean than in a swimming pool? The reason for this has to do with the difference in density between pool water and salt water. Simply put, salt water is more dense than pool water. But what does this mean? Density is defined as […]
Kid-friendly apple treats
Every year our family heads out to a local organic u-pick apple orchard. One year I wasn’t paying close enough attention and my kids picked so many apples that before I knew it our family had collected more than $90 worth of apples. Yikes! But even when we don’t go quite so crazy, we always […]
Can you save Fred?
Can You Save Fred? is a classic activity that has been done in classrooms across the world many, many times. At the end of this past school year I held a small STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) class for a group of homeschoolers, and one of the activities we did was Can You […]
Flower bouquet made with wet chalk and sandpaper
When doing art with my kids, I love to explore new media. While we have used chalk to draw on our sidewalk. . . and we’ve used sandpaper to make wood smooth. . . we had never used chalk and sandpaper together to create art. Fortunately, this flower bouquet project gave us the opportunity to […]
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