Valentine’s Day is about flowers, candy, and hearts! For this project, we wanted to learn a bit more about real hearts, so we built this DIY stethoscope for kids so my preschooler could listen to her own heartbeat. We turned it into a STEM investigation that covered all the bases of STEM on a preschool…
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Valentine’s Day STEAM Challenges for Kids
It’s time to spread the love this Valentine’s Day. Love for STEAM, that is. Because who doesn’t love them some sweet science, technology, engineering, art and math? And to make it easy for you, we’re giving you the gift of STEAM with these FREE printable Valentine’s Day STEAM Challenge Cards. There’s two week’s worth activities in these…
Top Gifts for Young Engineers – 2016 Edition
The holidays are almost here…. Have you thought about what to get your little engineers yet? Every year, the Left Brain Craft Brain team (me, my husband and my almost 6 year old daughter0) try as many cool new toys and activities as possible, all in the name of research ;) Then I chat with…
50+ STEAM Activities for Kids to Do Right Now!
Do your kids love STEAM? Then I have an announcement for you. Maybe STEAM is something new. Then I have an announcement for you, too. I’m so so excited to announce the arrival of a new activity book: STEAM Kids. Finally. The activity book you’ve been asking for, and I’ve been madly working on for the last six months is…
The Best Travel STEM Toys for Kids Ages 4 to 14
We travel a good bit over the summer months. Where we go, our toys go too! You are going to love this list and hope you throw a couple of these games in your travel bag to keep STEM alive and well while you travel. They’re all screen-free, too! Here are our fave travel STEM toys for…
Fruit Stand Circuits
Spring is in the air and the fruit stands are starting to open up out here in California. So of course we were thinking about all the fun STEM projects we could do with the farmer’s best crops. Luckily, StemBox had my back. It’s a new hands-on STEM subscription box that inspires girls to get excited about science…
Coding for Kids
There’s a lot of talk about what languages we will need to know ten, twenty, even fifty years from now. I know that my daughter, she definitely will be better off if she can speak computer. Coding that is. Here are a bunch of ways to help your kids speak the language of the future….
28 Days of Hands-On STEM Giveaway!
It’s been a really fun February doing 28 Days of Hands-On STEM Activities for Kids. I hope you’ve been following along for STEM Goes Green, STEM Challenges, Coding for Kids and STEM on a Budget! And now it’s Leap Day so I have something really special for you! A Hands-On STEM Giveaway!! Hands-On STEM Giveaway…