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!

Enjoy these DIY Fairy Garden Ideas for kids that incorporate science, math & engineering learning! Today we are combining a few of our favorite things — gardening, fairies and STEM in this month’s feature of manipulative play and small worlds for kids! We’ve been talking about planting a Fairy Garden for a year now and …

Inspire an interest in culture & geography with this fun musical game for kids! I’m always looking for fun ways to integrate a little geography into our lives — especially hands-on activities that allow us to use maps ! So when our friends from The Educator’s Spin on It sent over a copy their new …

Explore the life cycle of a butterfly with these hands-on nature activities that can be done at home or in a classroom! We had some wonderful crafts & activities shared on our Discover & Explore: Butterflies linky! For our butterfly feature post, I thought I would share some of the fun ideas that relate to …

If you have a child (or remember being a child) than you are very familiar with Dr. Suess — one of the most well-known and loved children’s authors and illustrators!

This month, we’ll be highlighting the works for Dr. Suess and celebrating reading in a few fun ways.

Let’s face it — kids love to dig! Whether it’s digging a hole at the beach or shoveling their way around the backyard, they will spend hours looking for buried treasures.

There’s something magical about being able to stay up late at night when you’re a kid. Being outside on a warm summer evening is one of those things that ‘makes memories’! And of course, the kids will notice the stars. Stargazing can be both a fun and educational activity. There are some fun activities you …

This week, Discover & Explore is going colorful and also hoping to bring the luck of the Irish to you as we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and rainbows.

There are a lot of fun ways to introduce kids to geography and different cultures. We love to use maps with different activities to explore the world. Having a map in your home is an inexpensive but excellent learning tool! We also love reading books that introduce us to different places across the globe. …

Kids will love these pretend play printables – police, doctor, detective, scientist, architect, zookeeper and more! Do you have kids who LOVE to pretend? One day, they’re a zoo keeper and the next day, playing school with friends — pretend play is a HUGE learning opportunity for kids! It encourages them to role-play, expand their …

If you have kids, you know that you can accumulate a LOT of stuff! Probably way more stuff than any of us really needs in our homes. And the goal is always to “get things organized”, right? This isn’t the first time I’ve made a concerted effort to organize our home – in fact, it’s …