Cinnamon Ornaments | STEAM Activity for Kids
These cinnamon ornaments add a beautiful personalized look to your Christmas tree, and they add the festive fragrant smell of cinnamon to your tree (and house as they cook). This is the first year I’ve made ornaments with my kids. They are ages 6 and 4, and are...
Make Vanilla Bean Yogurt in the Instant Pot | Healthy Family-Friendly Recipe
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
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
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...
Dancing Raisins | STEAM Activity for Kids
Today’s STEAM Activity is Dancing Raisins! This activity is so simple but is incredibly fun and entertaining for kids. There are two ways to do this experiment: with Sprite or with baking soda and vinegar. We tested and had a blast with both methods, so I’m sharing...
Make S’mores in a Solar Oven | STEAM Activity for Kids
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
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
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
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...Welcome
Hi, I’m Emily. I’m an engineer, mom, and wife. I encourage kids to love STEAM and motivate women to find personal happiness in their career and motherhood journeys.
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