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Maker Monday: Summer Fireworks

Kids love watching the night sky light up with cracking fireworks. This week’s Maker Monday offers a fun way to paint a Summer Fireworks landscape using an unusual, homemade paintbrush.

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Maker Monday: Floating Parachute

Kids can make their intrepid thrill-seekers from pipe cleaners, then launch them to sail in the breeze before gently landing back on earth.

things to know

5 things to know this week

There’s so much news happening that we gathered it into a fat bundle.

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Maker Monday: Glow-in-the-Dark Balloons

Outdoor concerts. Watching movies in the park. Backyard cookouts with lots of neighborhood kids. To make those nights even more special, add a bright element of fun with Glow-in-the-Dark Balloons.

Read me a story? Write me a story! 2018 PBS KIDS Writers Contest winners

Read the winning stories with your kids as a jumping point for their own storytelling. Warning: Giggling – and big ideas – may occur.

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Maker Monday: Blow-up Balloon

Playing outdoors is loads of fun when the play includes interactive STEM activities, like this week’s Maker Monday experiment, a Blow-up Balloon.

The family guide to Three Rivers Arts Festival – from infants to teens

This year’s 10-day festival gives kids lots of fun ways to be creative with hands-on activities, experience interactive performances and be blown away by wild visuals.

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Maker Monday: Dino Skeletons

Junior paleontologists will have fun constructing Dino Skeletons in this week’s Maker Monday activity.

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Maker Monday: UFO Hovercraft

Maker Monday moves into outer space with this fun STEAM project. The air-propelled UFO Hovercraft sets imaginations on overdrive as it scoots across a table or floor.

museum cafes

6 Pittsburgh museum cafes that cater to kids

When spending a day at a museum, their cafes can be conveniently planned into your itinerary. Some include fun interactive activities along with kid-focused nourishment.

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Maker Monday: Robot Hand

Kids can consider their skeletal structure when constructing a Robot Hand, this week’s Maker Monday project. 

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Maker Monday: Bubble Pipe

This week’s Maker Monday project gives kids a chance to create a Bubble Pipe that produces clouds of bubbles that rise with the breeze. 

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Maker Monday: Rain-Making Experiment

With shaving cream representing clouds and food coloring giving a visual of rain sinking through via gravity, kids can learn a lot about weather.

my favorite thing

My Favorite Pittsburgh Thing To Do With Kids: Y108’s Broadway

“Kids grow up fast, Setting aside family time makes my wife and I pause from our chaotic schedules and really focus on them without the distractions we have in our day to day routine.”

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Maker Monday: Mad Scientist Color Wheel

Kids will have fun learning about colors with this STEAM Maker Monday project.

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Maker Monday: No-Sew Fan Pillow

This week’s Maker Monday project celebrates sports with No-Sew Fan Pillows made from T-shirts.

march for our lives

Pittsburgh students came out in force for March For Our Lives. Here’s what some had to say.

“My generation isn’t afraid to step up and organize when we have an issue that we feel this strongly about.”

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Maker Monday: Paper Puppets

Maker Monday visits the art of origami to create fun Paper Puppets. Moms will likely remember the basic folds from their younger days making Fortune Tellers or Cootie Catchers. 

home & garden

Going to the Pittsburgh Home & Garden Show? Don’t miss Kidsburgh at the Children’s Village!

Kidsburgh partnered with Remake Learning and local organizations who know how to keep kids entertained at the Home & Garden Show

10 Pittsburgh summer camps for high-energy kids in 2018

From survival camp to pony care, these fun and physically challenging summer camps are sure to challenge active kids.