The easiest recipe for beautiful, food-safe rice to fill your little one’s sensory bin!
Sensory Play Activity: How to Make Beautiful, Kid-Safe Rainbow Rice
Screen-Free Coding for Kids: Thames & Kosmos Product Review
A review and video demo of one of our favorite new products — a robot your kids build and code themselves!
Beyond Storage: Solutions to Your Real LEGO Problems
Storage is only the tip of the iceberg. Here’s how to organize your kids’ LEGO collection to beat your frustrations and make LEGO fun again!
How to Choose the Best Toys: Passive Toys for Active Learners
As parents, we are always searching for what’s best for our children. How can we help them grow? How can we create a home where they will be happy? Start by choosing toys that inspire creativity, learning, and fun!
Why LEGO? Developmental Benefits of the World’s Most Famous Little Brick
We routinely disregard the suggested ages on our childrens’ toys, especially with Legos. Here’s why.
Homemade Rope-Climbing Toy
Pull the string down, and watch the toy go up! Fun and simple mechanical toy you can build with materials you probably already have in your basement.
Why I Quit
I’m throwing in the towel. Here’s why.
Homemade Finger Paint
We experimented with homemade finger paint this week using this simple recipe from Tinker Lab. Most of the recipes I came across used water and sugar. We don’t usually have white sugar in the house, so I tried this one
Water Baby
Nothing goes with summer quite like water play! If you don’t have access to a big pool for swimming, look into getting a small pool for your yard or deck. Particularly for tiny kids, a chlorine-free option that’s portable and
Test, Observe, Revise: Engineering with a Preschooler
The slow-motion video option on my phone has captured my preschooler’s attention lately, so we are using it to improve our marble track engineering. When we record a run in slow-motion and review it, he can more easily see where