We Tried It: Hawaiʻi-Made Sensory Subscription Kits
Keep keiki’s hands busy with soft and squishy surprises, cool crafts and superpowered STEM projects—all created by O‘ahu moms.
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Homegrown Science: Make Your Own Foam Rainbow
Simple kitchen ingredients create an interactive, colorful bubbling introduction to gas.
Homegrown Science: Make a Pizza Box Solar Oven
Capture the power of the sun to make an afternoon snack or camp-worthy dessert.
Learning At Home in Hawai‘i: 18 Free Educational Programs For Keiki
Our top picks for another stay-at-home weekend of social distancing.
We Tried It: Superpower Academy
We asked four kids to test out a subscription kit—designed to boost their EQ.
Education Cheat Sheet: What is a Makerspace?
It’s not just arts and crafts. This is what maker-centered learning really teaches your keiki.
Homegrown Science: Rock Candy Geodes
The Science Excessive amounts of sugar mixed with water create a supersaturated solution. When heated, molecules in the solution collide and stick to one another. This crystallization process is called nucleation.…
We Tried It! TRAVELLING BRICKS: An Exhibition Made of Lego® Bricks
One of the most painful rites of parenting isn’t childbirth, or watching your partner in labor, or listening to your toddler throw tantrums. Those are manageable. What's really painful is when you accidentally step on Lego® pieces that your kids scatter on the floor—especially here in Hawaiʻi,…
Your Weekend: The Best Family Events-May 22, 2019
Photo: Courtesy of Shinnyo Lantern Floating Hawaii Travelling Bricks: An Exhibition Made of Lego Bricks More than 120 giant models made of millions of Lego bricks are up for viewing at Bishop Museum, as part of a traveling exhibit from May…
We Tried It! The Home Depot Kids Workshops
Photo: By Laura Dornbush Where: The Home Depot Kids Workshop, Honolulu location. Who: A mom and her 2-year-old son. When: The first saturday of the month from 9 a.m. to noon. I first heard about The Home Depot Kids Workshops from a friend…
Decoding Robotics: Everything You Need to Know About Hawai‘i STEM Programs
Photo: Courtesy of Play-Well TEKnologiesPlay-Well TEKnologies Visit Mānoa Elementary School any weekday afternoon and you’ll find a couple of dozen students coding and driving robots on large tables in the library. “We’re making a 5-to-1 torque lift,” says 10-year-old Jackie…
Your Weekend: The Best Family Events-April 24, 2019
Photo: Courtesy of Hawaiʻi Bicycling League Facebook pageDon your helmets! The kid-friendly Haleʻiwa Aloha Fun Ride is this Sunday on the North Shore. YMCA Community Birthday Parties Here’s a new vocabulary word for your kids: sesquicentennial. It means “150th anniversary,”…
Inside Look: 2019 Ellison Onizuka Day of Exploration
Photo: Courtesy of Aloha Council Boy Scouts of America This Saturday, April 27, is the 2019 Ellison Onizuka Day of Exploration, hosted by the Aloha Council Boy Scouts of America. It's a day of free hands-on activities and workshops to teach keiki about…
We Tried It: MathAlive! Exhibit at Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum
Photo: MathAlive! Editor's Note: We updated the blog after another visit to MathAlive! in July. What: MathAlive! is an interactive exhibit which teaches kids math through some of the things they love most–video games, sports, fashion, music, robotics, and more. Who: One…
Inside Look: Hawaiʻi’s New Center of Innovation
Photo: Courtesy of Boys & Girls Club HawaiiThe Center of Innovation focuses on STEM learning. School-age children have a new place to explore science, technology, engineering and math with hands-on activities in West Oʻahu at the Center of Innovation, which…
Your Weekend: The Best Family Events-March 14, 2018
Photo: Bishop Museum Fall in Love with Science Preregister now to visit Bishop Museum for free and try out dozens of hands-on activities this Sunday. We tried it last year and our boys had a blast going from booth to…
Your Weekend: The Best Family Events-January 17, 2018
Photo: Honolulu Museum of Art Bank of Hawaiʻi Family Sunday - Whirls and Swirls Your keiki may want to head to Bollywood or join the circus after this day of free fun. Bollywood and Circus Olina performers will be singing, dancing, riding…