Our (mine and hubby’s) plans to go on a date tonight fell through. So we decided to have fun together building robots! Guess who else thought that was a great idea? Apparently they weren’t quite as asleep as we’d thought, and they both jumped out of bed when they heard the noise of little […]
After watching a TED talk on Squishy-Circuits, I knew I had to try making them with my kids. Well, we got our chance! I’d made the kids some regular salt dough to play with, and then thought that it would be a great chance to try out the squishy-circuits—we had friends over to play, […]
What did I do with my preschoolers today? Built a battering ram! Okay, it was just a tiny one. But it was a lot of fun! They found all the pieces: Stuck ’em together (with a bit of help): Tried it out (repeatedly): And built great castle walls to knock down over and over again: […]
Today’s Minion is brought to you by…The Laundry! I threw the mindstorms gadgetry into the laundry basket as I carried our clothes up from the basement. Such is the way in a homeschool classroom—Laundry and Bots in semi-perfect harmony. We decided to turn our Shark Hunter into a line following race car. I gave Giant […]
We programmed our Robot (aka, Shark Hunter) with Enchanting today: I’ll admit it: the programming part of robot building has been my biggest hang-up in trying to do robots with my 4.5 year old. What if it was just way too beyond him? Would it be mommy entertaining her boys, with very little learning going […]