Making and Tinkering For Kids Ideas and Free Webinar

1. Making new things and tinkering with objects at home is the best possible activity you can do to help your child understand and use math and science skills. And, depending on what materials you are using with your child, art and creativity can play a part. This is a great day to look around and see what you may have to build something with or find an old appliance to take apart. If you are personally not a maker or tinkerer in this fashion, you can always order a birdhouse or something to build together. Let it be fun and remember we learn from mistakes, too!

Get out the lego's or wooden blocks and build, build, build!

Find scraps of anything and make a sculpture, a birdhouse, a 3-D picture, a chair for a stuffed animal, a mini zoo...

Use material scraps and make little aprons.

Using blankets, sheets, pillows, sofa, chairs, dining room table and build a fort or tent. This is a favorite at my house!

Find something broken that would be safe to take apart. This can be fascinating to a child. 

Happy making and tinkering!

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2.  WEBINAR: NAEYC, one of the national preschool education organizations, is presenting a free webinar 
3. for teachers and parents. We hope you will register and watch live or at a later time as a recording.
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5. MAKING AND TINKERING AT HOME AND AT SCHOOL
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7. Thu, Apr 23, 2020 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT

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Making and tinkering now and in the future is more important than ever before. Join Cate Heroman, author of Making and Tinkering with STEM, and Lianna Kali, Project Director for The Tinkering Studio in San Francisco’s Exploratorium, as they share strategies for delightful investigations to try at home and at school. During this webinar, they will take a closer look at tinkering with two big ideas---light and shadow play and balls, ramps, and chain reactions.

If you are unable to attend live, a recorded version of the presentation will be available within 6-8 weeks.

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About the Presenters    Cate Heroman    Cate Heroman is the author of NAEYC’s Making and Tinkering with STEM, an early childhood consultant and Education Chair of Knock Knock Children’s Museum in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A nationally recognized educator and author of numerous publications, she has been an early childhood classroom teacher, state administrator, trainer, facilitator and developer of curriculum and assessment materials. Cate is passionate about helping all children become creative thinkers and problem solvers.       Lianna Kali    Lianna Kali is a Project Director in the Tinkering Studio at the Exploratorium and has been in the education field for over 15 years. She holds a Master’s Degree in International and Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco, and cares deeply about the intersections of STEAM learning and educational equity. When she's not facilitating tinkering experiences for young learners, she enjoys reading Afrofuturist science fiction (especially books by Octavia Butler).