As we entered the Wet Lab, Anna asked us if we wanted to see what she had in one of her buckets. All of us eagerly said, "Yes!" There was a mischievous look in her eyes as she carefully opened…
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Her little fingers moved dexterously as she carefully cut a small circular doorway, inserted a twig stand, and finally glued on a roof. Ta-dah! My daughter finished making a low-cost, eco-friendly bird-house from recycled materials at the Garvies Point Museum…
As we strolled leisurely through the sculpture gardens, we noticed a streak of white on the ground. It turned out to be a 4-foot long peacock tail feather! My daughters ran to grab a free souvenir from their day at…
As we stood in the middle of Big Brook's shallow, gentle freshwater stream in the center of New Jersey, I had a hard time believing that 72 million years ago we would've been standing at the bottom of a sea…
Yay! We found one! We were watching a seal leisurely swimming along, occasionally stretching out of the water and bobbing his head up and down. Then we caught a glimpse of another one, and another, and even more. When we…
My daughter turned to me with a very earnest look on her face and said, "I want a cow eye." What would prompt a 7-year-old girl to say she wants a cow's eye?!? We went to the Liberty Science Center…
My 10-year-old daughter carefully nocked her arrow, pulled back the string of her bow, aimed at her target, and released. Whoosh! Her arrow went flying through the air. She felt like Robin Hood, Katniss Everdeen, Hawkeye, and a demigod in…
