What Do You Want to Make Today?
The girl starts kindergarten on Thursday, and while I’m trying to be all cool about it because she’s been going to preschool since she was almost 2, I’M ABOUT TO HAVE A KINDERGARTENER and it feels like a big deal. I’ve written before about helping kids in school transitions, whether they’re starting school for the […]
I don’t usually think of activities as being related to STEM, because we bring science, technology, math and engineering into our lives pretty naturally. The girl is a self-described “sciencey girl,” she loves space and building and math challenges. But while science comes up commonly in conversation around here, we don’t always specifically plan to […]
I read a lot of crafty blogs and have a lot of craft and kids activities come through my feeds every day, so I’d guess a lot of these Notions posts are going to involve rounding up crafty kids things, as much so I can save them for myself as to share them with you. […]
This is the first of what I hope will be a weekly series of posts about cool things I’ve found on the Internet, hopefully all on some kind of a theme. We’ll see. One thing I think every good parent has in common with every other good parent is that we want our kids to […]
Most people’s kids have been out of school for at least a few weeks now, so you might have already gone through all the standard summertime activities the kids always want to do. And if you live somewhere it gets hot, it’s probably too warm to go outside for much of the day, so you’re […]
There are so many great crafty bloggers out there who share art and learning activities for kids, but one of my must reads is Jean Van’t Hul, blogger at the Artful Parent. Her site is full of great ideas for creating with kids and generally supporting families making together. Her book, The Artful Parent: Simple […]
The girl, who is almost 6, is super interested in all sorts of crafty things because that’s her life. She’s long wanted to learn how to knit, and before her interests turned toward astronomy, she used to say she wanted to “sew the material” when she grew up. It’s technically supposed to be my mom’s […]