Procrastination Destination: Eggs!
Take a break and learn some facts, do some crafts, experiment, and sing about eggs!
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Tag: Fun
Florida Renaissance Festival: Pirate Wieners and More!
Florida Ren Fest is the place to go if you want a taste of the renaissance but with fried Oreos.
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Procrastination Destination: The Heart
Take a break from what you’re doing and check out the latest research, quick kid experiment, and “romantic” music about the heart in this month’s Procrastination Destination.
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Procrastination Destination: Fan Art Christmas Sweaters
Shopping? Cleaning? Baking? Take a break and peruse these truly ugly Christmas sweaters with geeky pop art.
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Celebrating… Punctuation Day (Saturday, 9/24)!
Saturday 9/24 is Punctuation Day! Here is a list of activities to help you celebrate.
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Our Summer Reading Favorites, For Children and Adults
Need ideas on what to read this summer? We’ve put together a list of our favorites.
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We Came, We Saw, We Conquered: MegaCon 2016
MegaCon 2016 was a blast and Dakster gives her reasons why.
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How My Family Maths
If your kids struggle to connect to math, here are some ways that math connects to our lives.
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IncrediBuilds 3-D Wooden Puzzle Kit Review
Get your kids into wooden models this summer with Insight Editions’ latest IncrediBuilds!
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The Evil Genius Easter Bunny
For us, Easter is a four-day-long Festival of Chocolate. A long-weekend of sleep and chocolate.
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I Need to Fun More
I know it’s not a verb, the word “fun,” but maybe it should be. Forcing me to use the word “have” before it, making it something I must acquire, adds that much more distance to the goal, an extra obstacle I must overcome before reaching my desired level of happiness.
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How Karaoke Rid Me Of Stage Fright
My name is called and I step on stage. My friends have had their turns, and the mood is festive. I’ve never sung karaoke, and the idea of singing off key and thoroughly humiliating myself in front of people I know is mortifying.
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Games! ‘Paperback’ and ‘Five Tribes’
Paperback and Five Tribes are the two favorite games Rebecca Angel played at ConnectiCon this year. Check them out!
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Math: All You Need Is Games
When math is just a part of the fun, learning is fun too!
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Lessons Learned From SciFi and Comic Book Conventions
Dakster gives us her tips on surviving a comic book/sci-fi convention.
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This Saturday Is Ice Cream For Breakfast Day!
In the bleak of mid-winter your family needs…ICE CREAM!
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Elevenses: Tea With Strategy
Elevenses is a diverting strategy game that just happens to be clothed in pale pink, with sugar cubes as tokens.
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Unbored Games: Serious Fun for Everyone
Whether you work with kids, have kids, or are a kid yourself, I recommend Unbored Games!
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This Book Just Ate My Dog!
Interactive and silly, This Book Just Ate My Dog! will be a winner for a younger read aloud.
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The Stratford Zoo Midnight Review Presents Macbeth
With artwork that bounds off the page, The Stratford Zoo Midnight Revue Present: Macbeth is a clear but very silly take on one of the Bard’s most famous plays.
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The 2015 VW Golf GTI: The Hot Little Car That’s Big Fun
When I got behind the wheel of the new 2015 VW Golf GTI I was reminded of why everyone should learn how to drive a stick. The answer is one word and that word is fun.
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Cosplay, Conformity, and Funky Tights
Am I too old to cosplay? But we’re all cosplaying in our everyday lives, so what’s the big deal?
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Small Cons vs Big Cons
Big cons have the big names, but small cons have perks too. I’ve had good and bad experiences at both. You?
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My nephew is an adult, and one of my favorite people to hang out with. One day, the smell of smokey tea took us to another dimension.
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Geeky Fun with 100 Ghosts: A Gallery of Harmless Haunts
Ghosts are the easiest Halloween costume out there and this year, I was inspired to get creative with 100 Ghosts: A Gallery of Harmless Haunts, by Doogie Horner.
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Learning Statistics With Tea
Have fun learning statistics with your kids by polling friends and family about their drinking habits: drinking tea!
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Goblins Drool, Fairies Rule!
Goblins Drool, Fairies Rule is a card game with delightful images, silly names, and rhyming fun. It’s been played about a dozen times in my household; a new popular past time. This is interesting to me because I think the game has a kink to work out, yet the kids in my house won’t stop playing it, figuring out their own rules to get around any issues.
Continue ReadingCalculating the Effort Required for a Successful Thanksgiving
Last week while baking muffins with my son’s preschool class, I set fire to the school. Okay, technically I didn’t set it on fire—it was only butter smoke from the tin that set off the alarm, necessitating the entire school …
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The Weekly, Geekly Rewind – October 23, 2012
Links from near and far in the geekosphere. Perfect for that afternoon break.
Continue ReadingNerf Lazer Tag – GeekMom Tested. Bounty Hunter Approved
Hasbro has reinvented laser tag for the new generation; the apple generation that is. I first learned about the system earlier this year and it looked promising. I’m happy to say that the fleshed out product is just as much fun as it was originally advertised. Compatible with the iPhone (3GS and up) and iPod (4th generation and up), this new laser tag is a ton of fun for the entire family.
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