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Two Easy Jellybean Experiments | STEAM Activities for Kids

Two Easy Jellybean Experiments | STEAM Activities for Kids

by Emily | May 20, 2026 | Food Ingredient Activities, Holiday Activities, STEAM for Kids | 0 comments

I know Easter was over a month ago, but the end of the school year has me behind on everything, including disposing of uneaten candy and sharing this post. If you haven’t gotten rid of or eaten all your Easter candy yet either, then this post is for you! If not,...
Make Vanilla Bean Yogurt in the Instant Pot | Healthy Family-Friendly Recipe

Make Vanilla Bean Yogurt in the Instant Pot | Healthy Family-Friendly Recipe

by Emily | Nov 13, 2020 | Food Ingredient Activities | 0 comments

I’ve been making homemade yogurt in my Instant Pot weekly for a few years now – ever since I first got my Instant Pot and saw it had a yogurt feature. My mom used to make yogurt when I was a kid, but she had to make it in the oven. It is so much easier in...
Make Rock Candy | STEAM Activity for Kids

Make Rock Candy | STEAM Activity for Kids

by Emily | Sep 8, 2020 | Food Ingredient Activities, STEAM Activities, STEAM for Kids | 0 comments

Today is my kid’s first day of school. Our summer felt long, but now that school is starting we’re all saying it was too short! It’s all about perspective, and hopefully with this experiment we can teach our kids that the wait for these rock candy...
Rainbow Lemonade | STEAM Activity for Kids

Rainbow Lemonade | STEAM Activity for Kids

by Emily | Jul 23, 2020 | Food Ingredient Activities, STEAM Activities, STEAM for Kids | 4 comments

Today we’re making the perfect midsummer treat: Rainbow Lemonade! This is as beautiful as it is delicious, and it’s easier than it looks to make. My kids had a blast helping me make the rainbow lemonade and couldn’t wait to drink it. Keep reading to learn...
Make S’mores in a Solar Oven | STEAM Activity for Kids

Make S’mores in a Solar Oven | STEAM Activity for Kids

by Emily | Jul 1, 2020 | Food Ingredient Activities, STEAM Activities, STEAM for Kids | 0 comments

Today’s STEAM Activity is making s’mores in a solar oven! This is just in time for the Fourth of July, our favorite day to make and eat s’mores!  The title of our Lil’ Smore magazine (that I shared last week), made me desperately want s’mores. It is my favorite...
How to Make Dying Easter Eggs a STEAM Activity for Kids

How to Make Dying Easter Eggs a STEAM Activity for Kids

by Emily | Apr 11, 2020 | Food Ingredient Activities, STEAM Activities, STEAM for Kids | 0 comments

Dying eggs is one of my favorite family Easter traditions. The vibrant colors, fighting to use my favorite color first, eating of lots of hard boiled eggs, it all brings back happy memories of my childhood! Of course my kids love my favorite family tradition too. I...
Spinning Eggs – is it hard boiled or raw? | STEAM Activity for Kids

Spinning Eggs – is it hard boiled or raw? | STEAM Activity for Kids

by Emily | Apr 10, 2020 | Food Ingredient Activities, STEAM Activities, STEAM for Kids | 0 comments

Today’s STEAM Activity was learning a simple trick to tell if an egg is hard boiled or not! I bought 1 1/2 dozen eggs for my kids to color for Easter this year. To get started we needed to hard boil them. We could only fit half in our pot at a time, so half the eggs...
Homemade Play-Dough for STEAM Play | STEAM Activity for Kids

Homemade Play-Dough for STEAM Play | STEAM Activity for Kids

by Emily | Apr 5, 2020 | Food Ingredient Activities, STEAM Activities, STEAM for Kids | 0 comments

Today I’m sharing our first quarantine STEAM activity we did 3 weeks ago (which my kids are still playing with…) – making homemade play-dough for STEAM play! You can view my original Instagram post here. This recipe, which I got...
Homemade Ice Cream in a Bag | STEAM Experiment for Kids

Homemade Ice Cream in a Bag | STEAM Experiment for Kids

by Emily | Jun 20, 2019 | Food Ingredient Activities, STEAM Activities, STEAM for Kids | 0 comments

In my opinion, there is no better sweet treat than ice cream on a hot summer day. My kids definitely agree and would eat ice cream all day everyday (probably in the winter too). We’ve had our fair share of trips to the ice cream shop this summer, but I thought...
Teach your kids STEM concepts while making Rice Krispies Treats!

Teach your kids STEM concepts while making Rice Krispies Treats!

by Emily | Jan 15, 2018 | Food Ingredient Activities, STEAM Activities, STEAM for Kids | 4 comments

Ever since my son turned three he has been wanting to help me cook in the kitchen. The idea of him cooking with me in the kitchen was fun, sweet and appealing, but in actual practice it can be stressful, frustrating and test of my patience. I have been slowly getting...

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Today I’m featuring the STEM favorites pages in my Today I’m featuring the STEM favorites pages in my book The Amazing Book of STEM. First there is a STEM Favorites checklist where kids can pick from a list of some fun things to learn and do in STEM. Next, you can find the STEM favorites in a fun and challenging word search. It’s not easy, but that’s what makes it good for older kids! Which STEM Favorites should you check off? I like all of them! 🥰 There are so many cool pages to discover in The Amazing Book of STEM. I’ll continue to share some of pages and all the cool things for kids to discover in the book. You can buy The Amazing BooK of STEM on Amazon. #stemforkids #stembook #stemeducation #stemauthor #stembooks
Crush a Can in Ice Water - FAILURE edition! Yeste Crush a Can in Ice Water - FAILURE edition! Yesterday I showed how cool and easy this experiment is if it goes right! But before we had the awesome success we had many failures. I originally wanted to make a face to camera video like I usually do, so I tried boiling water in a kettle then pouring it into the can, but this didn’t get the can hot enough for the experiment to work. I tried it 3 times with minor changes, all with no success. Eventually, I decided to try the original way I had seen this experiment done, but heating the can directly on the stove. But my tongs couldn’t grip the can good so I had trouble flipping the can into the ice water. I kept hitting it at an angle and allowing air in so it didn’t work. Eventually, I got the hang of flipping it with my tongs, and got the crushed can I showed in yesterday’s video. My kids were disappointed when this experiment wasn’t working, but I reminded them that failure is part of experimenting. It’s rare to get experiments right on the first try, especially when trying something new. Both my books, STEAM Activity Journal and The Amazing Book of STEM, emphasize that failure is part of the experimentation process. We don’t see it as failing, just an opportunity to reevaluate and try again! Check out my books on Amazon, they have so much more than expected, and many lessons learned. 😃 Have you tried this experiment yet? Did you get it first try or have a few failures first like us? #failure #learningfromfailure #dontgiveup #stemforkids #cokecan
Crush a can in ice water! 🚨Note: BURN DANGER! If Crush a can in ice water! 🚨Note: BURN DANGER! If you try this, the can becomes extremely hot on the stove and must be handled with tongs and/or an oven mitt. Do not touch the can with your bare hands. To do this experiment: 1️⃣ Fill a clean empty can with a small amount of water (enough to cover the bottom of the can). 2️⃣ Bring the water to a boil by placing the can in a pan on your stove and heating the pan. 3️⃣ Use tongs to grab the can and quickly flip it upside down into a bowl of ice water. 4️⃣ The can will instantly crush. When this works it is pretty cool! It makes loud crushing sounds and happens so fast! The challenging part is flipping the can upside down into the ice water quickly. I simply was not able to do that skillfully with tongs (and it’s too hot to touch with your hands). This experiment works because the can is full of steam from boiling a small amount of water in it on the stove. When you flip it into the ice water, the cold water cools the steam to water, which takes up less space inside the can than steam. As no air can enter the submerged can, the outside air pressure crushes the can as the steam changes state to water. If air enters the can as it touches the ice water it won’t work. I debated sharing this experiment because we had so much difficulty with it, so first here is our success video, but come back tomorrow for our failure story. This experiment failed on our first 5+ attempts. 😵‍💫 Would you try this? Or have you already done this experiment with success? What’s the secret to quickly flipping the can straight into the ice water? #cokecancrush #coke #cokecan #scienceexperiment #stemforkids
Our Favorite STEM Affirmations from The Amazing Bo Our Favorite STEM Affirmations from The Amazing Book of STEM. The Amazing Book of STEM has so much more than you’d expect from a STEM experiment book. My previous reel showed you some of the STEM jokes, and these are some of our favorite affirmations. Did you know The Amazing Book of STEM has 50 STEM themed affirmations? You can buy it on Amazon! DM me or comment to ask for the link. ☺️ I strongly believe in affirmations and that’s why they’re included in both my books: The Amazing Book of STEM and STEAM Activity Journal! What is your favorite STEM affirmation? #stemaffirmations #affirmations #affirmationsforkids #author #stemforkids
One of my favorite sections in my book The Amazing One of my favorite sections in my book The Amazing Book of STEM is the STEM Jokes! The book features 20 STEM themed jokes for kids, parents, and teachers! They are sure to make you giggle (even if you’re just giggling about how bad the joke is 😉). In this video we share a few of our favorites but there’s many more in the book! Get your copy today, it’s available exclusively on Amazon, link in bio! Which joke is your favorites? Do you have a good STEM joke we didn’t include? #jokes #stemjokes #jokesforkids #funnymom #funnyfamily
The trip of my dreams! We went on Alaskan cruise a The trip of my dreams! We went on Alaskan cruise and it was everything I hoped for and more! The scenery, the animals, the history, the people, it all made an epic adventure. We went in the cruise with my entire extended family, including my parents, sister and her family, and brother and his family. We had a blast together on the cruise ship and enjoyed a few huge family meals. The excursions were so amazing and gave us a chance to see places and things we never would have gotten a chance to visit otherwise. From glaciers, to rainforests, to the animals, to the food, to souvenirs, we loved every stop. My favorites were Glacier Bay National Park and the rainforest in Ketchikan. My daughter loved the Yukon sled dogs we saw during our Skagway stop. My husband loved the crabs in Juneau. We learned so much of Alaska’s history along the way, and about how challenging but beautiful life can be for people in these small towns. Have you ever been on an Alaskan cruise? I would definitely recommend it, especially if you’re an outdoor person like me! #alaskancruise #alaska #dreamvacation #firstcruise #norweiganencore
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