The one time my kidlings came, about 5 other kidling groups came the same day. It was the most amazing example of matching of unplanned rotation of schedules I've ever seen. All involved had fun - even some of the non-kidling folk. And, we didn't even do geeky stuff.
But anyway, back on track with the geeky stuf... ;) Geeky kids stuff we could for a Saturday House "Kids Day" (heck, even without kids...) * Make Silly Putty * Make Play Dough * Paper Airplanes * Origami * Iron on something or other * Shrinky Dinks * Toaster Oven clay molded shapes. * LED throw thingies * electromagnets * Dry ice play day (e.g. make your own ice cream for the Saturday House picnic?) * Make your own stickers/temporary tattoos/rub on transfer decals/etc.... * Sidewalk chalk day (maybe combined with home-made chalk) * Bubbles day with different bubble solutions and wands/blowers of differing shapes and sizes. * Make your own jax/marbles/etc... * Photo walking on the waterfront * Planetarium night (might have to come out my way instead of holding in the city...) * Camping trip * Start your very own Tumblr site/blog (or if not enough are old enough, the group of kids could start one to show off pics and what not from a series of weeks...) * etc and so forth... Heck, all the parent folk could band together and commit to a series of kid geek stuff once a month - say the 1st or 2nd Saturday... Thoughts?? Myk O'Leary On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Rogan Creswick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Mahyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > what an opening - > > > > As a father of a 5 yr old, my wish is to do cool things that he can > > participate in, learn from and have fun with. So, perhaps simple circuit > > stuff (batteries, bulbs, motors, etc), simple chemistry/science > experiments, > > That reminds me of scaring the crap out of my gradeschool teachers by > pulling out a half-dozen 6v batteries and a hundred feet of assorted > wire at recess :) (*nothing* was cooler than electromagnets :) > > I don't have any munchkins myself, but this sort of thing seems like a > great fit for S.House -- or at least a S.House spinn-off. > > --Rogan > > > > simple kids programming games....you know, nerd 101 type things! > > > > thanks > > > > Mahyar > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
