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!

As a parent, it seems that we’re constantly learning new things when it comes to raising our kids. Take, for example, the year my son began studying for standardized tests (SAT, ACT, etc). He attended a review session at school to sit for a practice test which would help him to learn more about the …

This week’s theme in our month-long Olympic Activities for Kids series is STEAM activities. Now I know you’re familiar with many of our STEM ideas for kids (science, technology, engineering & math) — but we don’t do a ton of ‘A’ = Art so I thought we would branch out a little this week. If …

The Summer Olympics are beginning soon & we’re going to make them an AMAZING event for your family! Besides cheering on your favorite country, we thought it would be fun to create a friendly Learn & Play Summer Olympic Challenge for the kids too. We’ve teamed up with an outstanding group of kid-friendly bloggers from …

Do you know what my most favorite part of summer is — no routines! I really love that we don’t have to stick to a schedule and can just operate day-by-day.

But once school begins, our house really needs that regular daily schedule to keep away the chaos.

Want to make Back to School a big hit in your house? We know it’s all about the gear, right!

Here’s a few fun & helpful items that will thrill the kids as they head into a new school year!

Today is our monthly book & activity for the Poppins Book Nook. Each month, we choose a book or books based on the theme and share a fun interactive idea to do with the story.

This month’s book theme is School and since my kids are always interested in various countries & cultures, we decided to find some books about schools around the world.

There’s something nostalgic about back to school time. I think it’s because we all remember getting ready for a new school year — …. saving those new shoes for the very first day so they’d be all shiny (at least until recess) …. getting excited to learn who would be in your class and who …

Welcome to our second year of the School’s Out: Top 10 Summer Learning series!

I’m joining 35 wonderful kid bloggers this week to provide TONS of ideas & activities for summer learning and fun.

We know that summer should be a time for kids to kick-back and be kids — but it’s also a great opportunity to let the kids explore interests that they may not have the chance to learn about during the school year.

Sometimes sitting down with “just a book” can be a little overwhelming for kids. All those words and pages — especially if they’re just starting to read or not overly crazy about reading. And then there’s the whole sitting part of reading — not something our kids EVER really did; they would constantly move and …

It’s summertime, which for many families also means some travel fun too! We are a big traveling family — for as long as I can remember, we’ve taken a summer vacation. When I was younger, my parents would toss all three kids (along with a heaping pile of pillows and blankets) into the back of the station wagon. Yep, no seat belt laws back then. Sometimes we’d visit family and other times we would head to someplace new.

Now we do the same thing with our kids (still a heaping pile of pillows and blankets but now seat belted in the back). And one other thing hasn’t changed — gathering souvenirs from our travels.