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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!

If you have blocks, legos or anything that stacks in the house, I’m sure your child has tried to build something.  Playing around with engineering ideas and principles helps kids to better understand the world around them and how things work (it’s an early introduction to the world of physics!)

This week’s Discover & Explore linky is featuring Build It: Ideas for Little Engineers to encourage kids to create, play and explore the concepts of engineering.

Read More about Build It: Engineering Books & Resoures for Kids

We had the opportunity to review the Crafty Christmas crate from Kiwi Crate!

If you aren’t sure what a ‘Kiwi Crate’ is — let me introduce you!

Kiwi Crate is a company that makes crafting with your kids easy and fun!  You can purchase one crate or a monthly subscription and these cute, green boxes arrive in your mailbox (by the way, they are addressed to your kids so they should get to open them first 🙂

kiwi-crate-box

Read More about Christmas Crafts with Kiwi Crate

We had a mishap at our house this week – our youngest leaned on the soap holder while showering and ripped it (along with some tiles) off the wall!  I realized that I have told my kids to rinse their hair really well, check the water before getting in, and step on the bathmat when getting out – but I never said anything about leaning on the soap holder. 

So, I got to thinking about other things that kids should know that we may have forgotten to tell them – here are a few:

Read More about 12 Important Things to Tell Kids

 

I’m so excited to introduce a new series this week —

The ABC’s of Family Field Trips!

 

This will be a 5 day series covering all kinds of tips and ideas for those fun family outings you want to plan this year. 

I really want to help you get prepared for some great family trips this year by offering resources to help get you ready, along with new ideas for some cool places to visit!

Read More about The ABC’s of Family Field Trips: Tips, Resources & 50+ Ideas for Where to Go