Finding My Yoga Flow

Posted by on Nov 3, 2020 “What I Did With My COVID-Staycation” is the current equivalent of “What I did on Summer Vacation”. But perhaps it’s even more than that. We’ve all experienced this break, this pause, this shift – for good and for bad. For me – I knew I HAD to come out the other side with something to show for my time. Something more than just passing the time...
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Explore Your Culinary Side!

Posted by on May 21, 2020 It’s no secret that I love our cooking classes. As someone who went to culinary school myself, I take great pride in our cooking and baking classes – they are jammed full of fantastic learning opportunities, as well as really tasty treats! I was brought up with a “get in the kitchen and try” mentality – which is something we always want to encourage in all our students. The kitchen isn’t a place...
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Bubbles!

Posted by on Apr 29, 2020 In my experience, EVERYONE loves blowing bubbles. So learning, while we play doesn’t get any better than with this easy to set up bubble-based STEAM activity. It’s finally getting warm enough to enjoy some backyard time (wow – do we need it!) – and this activity will encourage creative thinking while exploring engineering, chemistry and surface tension, all while blowing...
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Sew A Stuffie!

Posted by on Apr 15, 2020 At Explore It!, we love making Stuffies. We have entire programs dedicating week after week to them, we incorporate them into our multidisciplinary programs (Owls in Hogwarts Adventures, Goodall’s Gorillas in Women in Science, and Dragons in D&D Club to name a few) and we make at least one stuffie every single week in Summer Camp. Stuffies aren’t “just a craft”....
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Happy 100 Day!

Posted by on Apr 9, 2020 Today – April 9 – marks the 100th day of 2020. We thought it might be nice to mark the occasion, and to reflect on what we’re grateful for, what we miss with the realities of social distancing, what makes us smile in these trying times, and what unites us, despite the darkness. We encourage you to do the same at home – it’s not making it to 100 that matters,...
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