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!

Our summer travels took us to a whole new area of the country for our family – the Black Hills of South Dakota!

After our wonderful trip to Rocky Mountain Nat’l Park last summer, we decided that we wanted another ‘back to nature’ vacation.

We’re back with the Online Book Club for Kids — this month’s featured author is Donald Crews.

Some of our favorite books from Donald Crews include his transporation stories – with vibrant colors and simple text, kids love to learn about the various ways we get around in the world.

Anyone who’s met me, or my kids, will tell you that I’m a fairly
protective parent. Or as my kids lovingly refer to me, ‘The Fun
Police’. I didn’t plan to be this type of parent – one who monitors
what they eat, where they are and how much sleep they get. But plan or no plan, it’s happened.

My daughter is a HUGE fan of the Percy Jackson books. She began reading them two years ago and has continued to be fascinated with Greek Gods and mythology ever since.

So for her 10th birthday party, she wanted to plan a Percy Jackson celebration.

Both of my kids are huge fans of non-fiction books & stories. When they were younger, neither was interested interested in the fiction readers that came home from school. It was a big struggle to get them to practice reading every night until we learned of their love for nonfiction. They enjoyed reading and learning …

This week’s linky will Discover & Explore Boats, Water Fun & Things that Float!

Kids can explore a number of science and engineering ideas by trying to build their own boat and playing around with the concept of sink and float.

How heavy is an item before it sinks? And what type of materials can be used to make a boat that floats?

What a fun week we had with our Discover & Explore Oceans linky!

There was such a wonderful variety of activities and ideas shared that I thought I would put together a planning kit for your own Under the Sea Party!

We’d like to thank Walmart for sponsoring this post and supplying parents with a great new option for back to school shopping. As always, all thoughts and opinions are my own.

Last year, back to school shopping for us was insane! We usually head out a few weeks before school begins to get our supplies but since we decided to take a late vacation (to Rocky Mountain National Park – it was AMAZING!) we were pressed for time.

Once we returned, there was less than a week to get all the school supplies we needed. Here’s a quick summary of how that worked out:

Did you know that March is National Reading Month? It’s a great time to think about what it takes to raise a child who reads and loves books. 5 Tips for Raising a Reader Reading is such an important skill for kids that it deserves some extra attention. Every family needs to decide …

Don’t you just love family vacations?! The opportunity to get away and explore someplace new! The time away from the daily schedule and all the things that need to be done at home 🙂 The packing, unpacking and repacking (ha!) We had some fun posts shared last week at the Discover & Explore Vacations …