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Some highlights (and low points)

Bug hotels

"Lots of hammering of screws. Hee hee. For many it was the first time they'd used a hammer. :) They kept saying "I can't, miss." But they could and they did! ... One boy wanted to catch caterpillars, so we got online to research the life cycle of a butterfly, seasons in the Rockies for caterpillars, how to identify caterpillar eggs and what to feed them. The next day he came in and told me he found caterpillar eggs after our program. "

Hovercrafts

"My kids loved the sumo battle zones and even though it was messy they enjoyed having the glitter glue to make the cd look flashy. I would suggest doing glitter glue only at the end to keep overnight to dry and hand back the next day. "

Keva planks

"I'm not going to lie, I didn't think the kids would like this STEM but boy was I wrong. THEY LOVED IT!!! So much I'm tempted to buy a set to keep here ... It really brought out the creativity of the kids, they wanted to build the biggest, tallest towers. "

Owl pellets

"I had an intergenerational family - recent immigrants from China - who had a hoot. 5 year-old boy, mom, and grandmother all laughing and having a great time, even though mom was the only one who spoke some English. Grandma's job was to blow up the balloons for the hovercrafts and mom and kiddo tested them out. "

"The moms were very excited and were eager to find out about more activities we had coming up. One little boy was very good at identifying parts of the rodent skeletons and wanted to know if we could dissect bats next time. "

Paper roller coasters*

"I had the worse experience with the Paper Roller coasters. It took 6 hours of prep work, cutting out all the pieces. At the end of the hour we didn't have a finished roller coaster, I had 20 frustrated kids who where giving up half way through the program. "

"Paper roller coaster. I borrowed it at the beginning of this year and even though it's a great concept I did not like that it's not a great kit for young kits. I even had a hard time figuring how to build it. "

NOTE: we are discontinuing paper roller coasters.

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