Jacquie Fisher

Jacquie is the founder & owner of Edventures with Kids, a site that shares unique kid’s activities, fun ways to learn and inspriation for family travel. She is an experienced educator, with both a Masters in Education and an MPH degree and has a wide variety of expertise in developing programs for children, families & communities during her previous work at the University of Kansas.
She utilizes her past experiences as an educator, program coordinator and researcher to develop educational and fun kids' activities, parenting articles and creative learning ideas.
Jacquie has been published on numerous educational sites including Kids DISCOVER, the National Park's Foundation blog, PBS Parents, Steve Spangler Science and CWIST.
Kids DISCOVER: 7 Ways to Raise Lifelong Learners
National Parks blog: A Family Vacation in Rocky Mountain National Park
PBS Parents: Egg-ucational Activities for Kids
Steve Spangler Science: Science-themed Jr. Ranger Badges at National Parks
She is also the co-author of 3 children's books focused on STEM for kids and hands-on learning activities.
Jacquie is also a nature lover and mom to 2 awesome kids. She enjoys traveling to new places with her family and loves encouraging kids to be creative & curious! Visit our About Us section for more information about Jacquie & Edventures with Kids!

So glad you’re still with us! Just in case you’ve missed some of our recent fun activities, here are a few ideas for Summer — 50+ Summer Activities for Kids If you need a quick & easy activity for your kids, try one of these 20 Summer Scavenger Hunts! Looking for low-cost ideas …

Don’t you just love a day at the beach? The smell of the air, the warm sand and the hunt for shells — yep, that’s what I call some summer fun!

We had some wonderful beach activities shared at this week’s Discover & Explore linky and so many of them reminded me of fun beach books. So this week, I thought I would share our feature posts and link them to a great summer read for the kids!

Today we are traveling the country with Charlie, who is the star of a great Search & Find book series titled Travels with Charlie.

This virtual road trip was organized by my friend Jodie who writes all about great kids books at Growing Book by Book (you’ll definately want to stop by and visit!) and inspired by the books. We are representing the state of Missouri.

There are quite a few amazing things that happened in the state of Missouri —

Tips & book recommendations for starting a Mother/Daughter book club! As much as I love read aloud sessions with my kids , I also know that I can’t read to them forever – although I’ll certain keep trying 😉 As kids get older, the next logical step in having a ‘book relationship’ with them is …

Try this creative idea f One summer, our kids decided they wanted to start their own club. A secret club. “One that only has kids allowed Mom — you can’t come in, okay?“ It’s one of those times as a parent when you’re excited for the creativity and independence but also a little skeptical about …

Creative activities for kids who have to fidget, move and stay active! Our kids could never sit still during reading time. They would ask to build block towers, do headstands on the couch so they could see the book upside down or color while we read aloud. Even as they got older, there would always …

Even though we only get the newspaper once a week, we always seem to have a pile of it lying around the house or tossed in the recycle bin. In fact, that was my inspiration for our DIY Eiffel Tower project! Why go out and spend money on building materials when you have some great …

Paint a t-shirt using heat from the sun — an awesome craft for teens & kids this summer! You know when you find those inspirational points where two seemingly unrelated things collide? Like frozen hot chocolate?! You think “Man, I’m not sure how that came together but it just works!” That’s what we have for …

Inspire your kids with this free printable summer reading log that encourages them to read books from different genres! Do your kids have a favorite book? I’m sure they do! In our house, Are you My Mother? was a huge fave for a while — it was the only book my son wanted us to …

I’ve found some really amazing nature printables this year for our nature study activities! Really super awesome stuff!

But you know how it is — you take a piece of paper outside for a scavenger hunt or garden activity and before you know it, it’s blowing around the yard with the kids chasing after it.

Or the pencil you have goes missing.

Or you don’t have enough time to finish the activity and then can’t find the darn sheet the next day.

Or you DO finish the activity but aren’t sure where to store them all so the kids can see what they’ve accomplished.