Here’s a five minute project to try with your kids to help ring in the New Year!
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Artist Lindsay Hutchins has created these beautifully illustrated fun fact cards and coloring sheets as FREE printables for our Kid Lab families.
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Want to create a pick-me-up for someone in your life? One of our favorite projects is making these colorful corsages using coffee filters. Bonus: they never fade or wilt!
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In this article, we provide everything you need to make your own DIY wrapping paper at home! Click the and have fun creating!
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Check out our pin punch snowflake guide (a fun Montessori activity) and a FREE winter-themed play dough mat printable.
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To kick off our December maker mamas design camp series, we’re highlighting a local Raleigh group of maker moms who value building community as much as we do and are committed to creating playful learning experiences for kids. Read on for details on this great group—and their handy tutorial on how to create felted acorns!
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Download this fun freebie and build a bird nest for mama bird, strengthen fine motor skills by making wiggly worms for mama bird to feed her babies, and create flowers for hummingbirds.
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Artist Lindsay Hutchins’ approach—playful, perfectly crafted, and unique—transformed Kid Lab into a magical space over a recent November weekend, when she created a beautiful window display based on our Nov./Dec. themes: birds and winter.
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Encouraging early literacy in the younger years is important and often really easy to do. But it can seem daunting for parents who don’t know where to start. These pre-writing resources will help you teach your little ones!
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Here’s a FREE little printable book you can use for birdwatching with the children in your life. It contains some of the most common and easy-to-spot birds for you to color and observe!
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This month we’re focusing on weather in our Play Labs so I made a set of DIY stamps with weather shapes for all our Kid Lab kids to explore. You can make your own stamps and reusable stamp pads with just a few materials.
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We like to use playdough mats in our play labs to spark children’s curiosity and prompt them to build their own three dimensional models. This “Anatomy of an Ear” playdough mat was a big hit in our sound unit, so we’re sharing our FREE download so you can play along at home.
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We will be making some great instruments and learning a bit about the science behind how our ears work this month at our Play Labs. Follow along at home with this do-it-yourself paper plate banjo!
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We get asked about our favorite resources, supplies and beginning of school year tips a lot, so I thought I’d jot them down here in case it’s helpful for anyone else!
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On September 1st, we celebrate our 1 year birthday as a 501(c)3 nonprofit. Many of you know this year’s wild journey that has brought us to this point and given us so much to celebrate. For those who don’t, a bit of backstory.
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It’s Kid Lab’s first birthday and we’re on the move! At long last we can tell you our huge news: Kid Lab HQ is now at 111 E Hargett St., in @Read With Me Bookshop. We’re thrilled! We’ll be celebrating the move on Saturday, Aug. 31 from 2-4. Come join us for free cookies, crafts, and Kid Lab prizes plus seriously good back-to-school vibes. See you then!
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We’re back with another printable you can try at home. This week, my daughter is learning about atoms: those tiny mysterious things that make up everything in the Universe!
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Did anyone else go see the new Lion King movie this week? To add to the Lion King fun, we made shadow puppets! Click for a FREE printable template of the Lion King Safari Shadow Puppets!
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Free Scroll Saw template and content bundle for anatomy of a lion, handwriting and cursive practice sheets. DIY learning toy for the favorite kid in your life, or a great gift for the Lion King enthusiast!
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Who’s excited about the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon? We’ve got a FREE PRINTABLE game of Lunar Dominoes to help you learn the phases of the moon, and a 2 ingredient recipe for Moon Sand to extend the play!
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