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Welcome to this week’s giveaway–sponsored by Home Science Tools.
From Home Science Tools:
“Homeschooling parents choose to give their kids the incomparable gift of their time, attention, and abilities. The return? Parents are present as their children light up with understanding and connect concepts.
Shared experiences make learning fun and engaging, and strengthen family bonds.
When families come together to discover the fascinating worlds of science – from infinitely small cells to gigantic galaxies – they create warm memories that kids and parents want to repeat and build upon.”
Homeschool science just got easier
“Science teaches us that great innovation starts with a twinkle of curiosity; igniting that curiosity and encouraging science discovery is the mission of Home Science Tools.
Home Science Tools supports the success and enjoyment of homeshooling families by offering convenient, affordable science solutions.
The products, curriculum, lab kits, free project ideas and science lessons at www.homesciencetools.com
The prize
Just stepping into the backyard can be a wonderful way for kids to learn through play!
Today one lucky Simple Homeschool reader will win Home Science Tools’ Young Naturalist’s Backpack Kit (a $107 value)!
This kit is a perfect way to explore nature close to home, and includes: an insect net; a pop-up insect habitat; compact binoculars; a plant press; books on insects, wildflowers, birds and nature and more inside a durable backpack.
The Young Naturalist’s Backpack Kit is a winner of the National Parenting Publications Gold Award.
Check out one mom’s review:
“When we gave our girls (10 and 12) the chance to use these backpacks, science changed in our house. They didn’t just ask, “Why?” Nor were they satisfied with simply reading about science anymore. Instead, they captured/observed something, proposed questions to themselves and each other, observed behavior, formulated opinions, and researched answers in encyclopedias.” ~ Jennifer, June 2015
How to Win
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To be entered for a chance to win, leave a comment on this post answering the question: How old are your kids, and which science activity do they enjoy most right now?
(If you’re reading this via email or reader, you must click here to leave your comment on this post at Simple Homeschool. Comments or emails left elsewhere don’t count as entries.)
Note: This giveaway is open to U.S. readers only. Sorry international readers!
For an extra entry, share about this giveaway on Facebook. Then leave another comment here letting me know you’ve done so!
Special Offer
Home Science Tools is offering 12% off all your back-to-school science shopping through August 22, 2015. Just use the discount code “SIMPLE15” at check-out.
Head here to browse their products by Grade/Age range. * Note: Discount not applicable on gift e-cards and shipping & handling.
This giveaway has ended, and the winner is Laura, who wrote: “My kiddos are 4 and 6 and right now all our interest is in volcanoes, earthquakes and plate tectonics!”
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My son is 7 years old and loves combining baking soda with vinegar.
I have littles who love to do nature walks and find bugs.
My kids are 11, 9, and 13 and we love doing experiments!
My kids are 6 & 2 1/2. They love to explore outside, take nature walks & listen for birds.
My kids are 10 and 11. They love experiments and really all things science.
My kids are 14, 13, 11, 9, 8, 6, 5, 4, 2, and 9 months.
My kids love to go exploring by creeks and ponds, looking for crawdads and other interesting finds. Lately, they’re interested in learning more about bird calls. My oldest son (13) wants to learn more about how microscopes work. They’re fascinated in the world around them!
We have used one of these backpacks before at a Forest preserve by the kids’ grandparents’ house. It is really neat! We would love one for our home!
My kids are 6 and 3 and love to catch and study bugs.
My kids are 12, 10, 8, and 5. Science experiments are at the top of their lists! Thanks for the chance!
13, 9, and 7…the oldest loves chemistry experiments, and the littles love any science they can do outside…bird-watching, bug catching, plant collecting, etc. 🙂
My kids are 8 and 6, and love anything related to science. Their current favorite is chemistry. They love making concoctions. 🙂 Thank you for this opportunity to win!
My 6 and 9 year old really like natural science, but they are getting more and more interested in electricity and chemistry.
My kids are 10 and 7 and they love nature walks…we are studying apologia land animals right now…would LOVE to win!!
My kiddos are 7,5,5&15 months. They are into bugs right now!
We have four boys. Our 9 year old and 10 year old loves bugs and reptiles. Our 11 year old loves birds. Our 15 year old loves all the simple do it at home experiments with baking soda and vinegar, coke and mentoos, etc…..
My son is 10 & loves doing experiments.
My kiddos are 7, 3 and 3 and they love exploring on nature walks and creek walks, looking for plants, insects and trees. So much fun!
My daughter is 7. The thing she loves the most is growing butterflies and ladybugs every year! The transformation. The observing and then letting them go! Such a beautiful experience to share with my daughter and see the wonder in her eyes!
My boys are 13, 11, 10, 8, and 6. They love doing any experiment.
My kids are 9 and 3. They love nature study. We are studying clouds right now and they love it!
9 and 6 and we’re all about botany and kitchen science at the moment!
my kids are 2, 4, 6, and anything to do with animals –specifically what they eat and where they sleep are what they love learning about right now. then of course they go off and “become” whatever animal we just learned about
My kids are 5, 3, and 1. They love anything involving water these days!
I have 3 boys ages 13, 12 and 10. They LOVE Chemistry experiments and Nature stuff.
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Our kids are 10, 8, 6 and 2 1/2. They enjoy anything science, but especially love outside exploring.
7,4 and 3 months: catching bugs and identifying them
Our girls are 7 and 4 and we spent the summer studying birds and bugs! We also talk a lot about science while baking. 🙂
I have 2 girls, 11 and 6. Right now they are into finger printing and then looking at them under the microscope. They love to make messy experiments.
My kids are 6,4, and 2. They love exploring outdoors and doing nature studies of plants and insects. The oldest is becoming more and more interested in science!
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My daughter is twelve. She loves meteorology and is studying the sky at all times. We love the nature in our yard, as well, and thank you for recommending and offering such a wonderful kit.
My children are 8 and 6 years old, and right now they really love getting to do experiments. They are both very curious, and they love to be outside, so I am sure that this kit would thrill them!
I have two boys that would love this kit for their outdoor adventures!!
My kids are 11, 9, 7, and 5. Grasshopper chasing and catching is their favorite activity this time of year!
10,7,5,3 1/2, 2 years old. This week we have been at a camp finding cicadas, frogs, bugs of all sorts and other creepy crawlies!
My son is 12, and he likes to study plants.
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My children are 13, 11, 3, 2 and 1. They love doing almost any kind of experiments and watching the result of combining various elements together.
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My kids are 4 and 2 and right now we love star gazing.
My kids are 4, 7, and 9. They love to study our local birds and insects!
My kids range from 5-16 and they love doing experiments about anything outside especially finding BUGS. Right now they are wandering the yard trapping crickets in milk jugs.
My kids are 14, 12, and 8 and enjoy chemistry and physics centered activities like making things explode or send something flying through the air.
My boys are 7, 4, 17 month. They love everything science and enjoy experiments.
My boys are 9 and 7. Right now, they love being backyard scientists.
Our children are 9, 7, 6, 4, and 1. They learn a lot of science through exploration, indoors and out!
My kids are 11, 9 and 7. They enjoy nature study and observing the critters that frequent our backyard.
My kids are 7 & 5. The science we most love right now is reading books, exploring for creatures in the yard and at the beach, and talking about creation and the flood. This looks like a great give away! Thanks!
My kids are 8 and 5 and love science in general. But their favorite right now is anything outdoors. We try to incorporate science and exploration in all of or hikes and camping trips.
My son is 8 and he loves ANYTHING science! He loves making volcanoes and other easy science experiments!
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My kids are 8 and 9 and they enjoy watching hummingbirds.
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My boys are 7 and 11 and our favorite is looking at anything(!) under the microscope.
My kids are 9, 7, and 4 and really enjoy birdwatching. They would love this kit!
My son is 6.5 and my daughter is almost 1 year. For her, she’s exploring putting-in-putting-out and stirring besides the toddling about. For my son we’ve been exploring rockets and jets.
My girls would LOVE to win a package of science tools!! They are major nature watchers, especially my 8 year old. We actually let our grass grow 3 foot tall in an area of our yard so she could have a ‘prairie’. Unfortunately, now we have chiggers on the prairie instead of a little house on the prairie.
My kids are ages 10, 8, 5, 3, and 18m and our favorite science activity is going to the zoo and presenting at the Nature Exchange!
Hi My children are ages 33,30,28,19,15,10 and our favorite was and is nature walks in the woods, by the pond and what surprises we would find and bring home. We always bring home frogs, toads, turtles , hurt birds , flowers, plants,sticks to make swords, rocks. salamanders, fish, cocoons whatever we could fit in the van. 😉 thank you for the giveaway.
My kids are 6, 4, and under. They love observing all the little critters they can find in the yard, most popularly a toad.
My kids are 9, 7, 3 and 1. They love all things science! We do a lot of outdoor exploration and love kitchen chemistry too!
5, 2 and 3 months, and they love anything to do with water experimenting.
Hi! My munchkins are boy 8 and girl 6 and right now we have not incorporated any science activity as this is our first year (couple of weeks) that we started homeschooling. Thank you.
My 8 yr old loves anything to do with the study of rocks!
My kids are 6 & 8. They love nature walks and bug collecting!
My homeschooler is 6 and loves all things nature. He’s taken a particular interest in exploring birds, insects and different flowers as we explore through our local Audubon properties. Thank you!
My son is 12, and he loves exploring the great outdoors, going on nature walks and identifying plants and insects. My 11 year old daughter enjoys gardening and conducting science experiments.
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12, 9, 7 and 5 watching birds in our backyard
My children are 12, 11, & 8 they all love watching and exploring nature. Most recent was rocks.
10, 8, 5 and 2. Currently Rocks and Minerals, botany and human anatomy!
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My kids are age 11 and 7. Right now they most enjoy chemistry and physics with their Dad. Together we enjoy studying animals and nature. Thank you!
My kids are 10, 7, 3 & infant. We love nature science, especially bugs.
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My girls are 8 and 10.5 and they love science! We spend a lot of time out doors with nature science and do fun experiments. They love birds.
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My children are 10, 8, 6, 3, and 3 and our favorite science activity is nature walks and all that you can do on a nature walk – beach combing, hiking, star gazing, birding, and identifying wildflowers 🙂
My daughter is almost 5 and our current experiments involve mixing ingredients in the kitchen and growing everything in the garden.
My girls are 7, 5 and 3. Their dad is an avid gardener and bird bander so the girls are especially into watching for pollinators and Hawks.
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Hi! My kids are 11 and 8 years old. They enjoy learning about animals and nature, looking at things under a microscope, and anything with a chemical reaction.
Hey there! My kids are 9, 8 and 6. My boys love messy experiments with Dad and my daughter loves any sort of nature exploration. Thanks!
My son is almost 4 and we’re just dipping our toes into science. He loves anything that he can mix or watch grow — we’re currently experimenting with food coloring and flowers!
My son is 7 and by daughter is 7 months. My son loves finding and inspecting insects,especially cicadas! He dissects them when he finds dead ones. My daughter is enjoying observing and feeling everything around her!
This would be wonderful to win. We have some wonderful/useful things in our homes from Home Science Tools. I can’t say enough how wonderful our microscope is. My kiddos are 13, 9, 6 and they love anything outdoors (animals, plants, rocks, etc.). Thanks for the chance.
My children are: Girl, age 10; Boy, age 8; Girl, age 2 and Baby (TBA), due in 3 weeks. They all enjoy nature walks and bug collecting. My oldest loves learning about Sharks and animal facts, constantly writing statistics and drawing pictures of her favorites. My son is very much into robotics, and chemical reactions. The little one is happy to be involved in anything her siblings are doing. We all love experiments. We like to cook together and explore any Avenue we can.
My kids are 6 & 7, and love catching butterflies!
Kids ages 6, 4, 2
4 year old loves bugs, worms and frogs.
6 year old likes to take things apart and likes all things space.
My gals are 7, 4, and 2 months. We enjoy getting out in it…gardening, birds, trees, insects
Isaac is 5.5 and loves most aspects of science. Isaac’s favorite part of science in this moment is “experiments.”
9, 4, and 9m. Right now the 2 oldest like the study bugs outside.
My children are 7 and 10 years old. Their favorite science right now is doing hands on experiments and projects.
My son is 6 and loves anything to do with the outdoors. Bugs, birds, rocks, plants, etc.
My son is seven and his favorite science activities are kitchen experiments or investigating nature outdoors.
My children are ages 7, 5, 3, and 1. Our current favorite activites are collecting rocks and looking at leaves.
My children are 4 and 7 and love anything that is explosive.
My kids are 10 and 12 and they enjoy watching creatures of all kinds, birds, frogs, bugs, lizards, rabbits, deer that come into our yard all through the year. Thanks for the giveaway!
My daughter is 11 and is on the spectrum. She absolutely LOVES birds, bugs, rabbits, and pretty much all animals.
My kids are 8, 6, and 4 and they love exploring nature and finding things that are new to them.
My children are 6, 11, and 13 and right now, they love studying about anything found in the ocean!
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My kids are 16, 14, 7, almost-5, and 2 and they enjoy learning about animals raised on our farm and in the wild.
11 and making samples of things to view under the microscope.
My kids are 13, 11,&7. They enjoy any science activity that gets us outdoors. In particular, they love anything with the study of wildlife.
8&9 and they love any hands on science!
My children’s ages vary; I have a newborn 5 month old boy, twin two year olds, and a 12 year old girl. The 12 year old is home schooled and she loves chemistry. She enjoys mixing formulas and seeing the end results. She is especially into Earth Science and explores the sky and the world around her with excitement and awe everyday. My toddlers are still exploring themselves and take great interest in their hands, feet, and reflections.
6 and 9 and they love studying bugs!
My child is 10 yrs old and loves anything to do with nature and the outdoors, especially birds, insects and other creatures, the stars, and gardening.
6 & 3, and they love learning everything they can about animals & animal habitats.
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8, 6, & 4. We just finished Astronomy so they’re all about star gazing right now!
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I have ordered science kits from Home Science Tools. The kids (10 and 7) look forward in trying out the chemistry kit! They love to explore and see what happens from the science projects. Whatever we need for the science projects are available on HST website. What a wonderful giveaway!
My kids love gathering leaves and rocks … anything not nailed down outside! Then peering at it all under the microscope or with a magnifying glass.
My children are 13, 12, and 9. We (myself included) love any science that involves actively applying what we are learning–in other words hands-on exploration is our jam! 🙂
Mine are 7, 4, and 1. My older girls live chemistry experiments.
My 7 and 8 year old children like to do d and identify insects. My 2 year old likes to collect rocks 😉
My 7 and 8 year old children like to find and identify insects. My 2 year old likes to collect rocks 😉
my girls have loved watching swallowtail catipillers this summer. I regreat we didnt make a home for one so we coukd watch it and the stages.
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Homeschooling mom of 4 children who are my everyday science experiments! My 16 enjoys mechanical science and has his own design plans for a submarine. My 14 year is a creative hands on learner who lives to investigate the how and why of things. Most recently he is experimenting with common herbs found in the yard making slaves and tinctures. Then we have an almost 6 and 4 year old who are all about exploring nature. Helping in the garden and following insects are their top 2 favorites.
Kids are 7,5,1. They would love trying to catch bugs and looking for birds! What a great kit!!
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My children are ages 5 and 3. They adore nature and love observing and learning about all different animals. This summer we have found tadpoles, turtles, skinks, and butterflies on our property. We spent a lot of time observing them and checked out books from the library to learn about each animal: characteristics, diet, habitat, etc. They love Science! 🙂
My daughter is 10 and had loved nature all her life. Bugs worms toads. We are currently into birds of prey.
My kids are obsessed with all things nature we spend all our free time researching insects and amphibians that we find in our yard.
Oops, my kids are nearly 7, 5, 3.
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My kids are 9,7 &4 and they LOVE science experiments and learning about any kind of animal, insect, reptile etc!
My kids are 10,11,12 and 15. They are into Biology right now, except my 10 year old. She keeps wanting me the buy her some test tubes. No idea why, she is obsessed with them. Ha!!
My kiddos are 7 and 4. They like learning about animals and insects. These kits look so amazing! Thanks for the chance
My kids are 14, and 9 year old twins. The twins love doing any experiment they can get their hands on. Doing science is more fun than reading it
Ages 3 and 6. They love anything messy. LOL. That and watching birds.
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My sons are 8 and 7. Astronomy and looking at the stars is always high on the list as are birds and bird nests. Toads, frogs and fish are on the list, too. So far, no frogs or toads in their jeans pockets . . . . .
My kids are 12 and 9. The 12-year old loves anything chemistry and the 9-year old likes to know how the body works.
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My kids are two and four and love planting seeds then harvesting their vegetables. Right now, they are especially obsessed with carrots.
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My sons are 11 and 4. They both love chemistry , earth science , pretty anything where they can be hands on!
My kiddos are 4 and 6 and right now all our interest is in volcanoes, earthquakes and plate tectonics!
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My kids are 10, 8, and 3, and science is our favorite! My girls are obsessed with mermaids, so marine buiogy was a logical direction for the summer. Visual, tactile aids are a MUST, so we have lots of shells and have made several trips to the local seafood grocer. 🙂
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My boys are 4 and 6. We are currently studying astronomy and anything in nature. Our best science lessons take place just being outdoors!
My kids are 6 and almost 8…my daughter’s favorite science thing right now is geology…she’ll find a rock on our property and wonder what it’s made of. My son’s favorite science thing changes from day to day…chemistry, volcanoes, the Human Body, etc., etc…
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Hi – my child is 14 and we love doing any and all kinds of science experiments 🙂
My kids are 5 & 9, and they pretty much love all science! My 5-year-old in particular loves animals and insects; my 9 year old loves learning about the human body. We all love learning about nature and love being outside! 🙂
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My boys are 8, nearly 6, and 3. We love science but of course they love most making anything explore.
My kids are 12 and 9 and enjoy doing all kinds of experiments.
I have 15 year old who loves hands on science. Anything to get outside and look around. Shared on Facebook.
I have a 13 year old girl left who loves to watch nature. You want to know where the birds are building their nests? Ask her. She also loves hands on science activities and is pursuing her new interest, astronomy. This is a child enchanted by the world around her.
My boys are 6 and 4 years old. They love collecting sticks and bugs outside and looking them up in a nature encyclopedia. All science activities are fun for them though. Great blog!
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My 3 year old daughter loves exploring outside and digging for worms. She also loves watching ants. She is very curious!
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7 and 5. Both enjoy exploring nature and spend lots of time outdoors. 7 loves chemistry and 5 loves anything and everything about animals. Thanks for the chance!
My kiddo is 8 and she loves learning about animals.
My kids are 10 and 13. My 10 year old is into chemistry and nature. The 13 year old love studying medicinal herbs and remedies as well as insects.
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Marek-13; Climate change, specifically how it affects animals and their habitats. Avery-11; Nature journaling, drawing pictures and using Audubon guides to help identify her findings. Shamus-9; The human body, specifically the endocrine system. He has type 1 diabetes and everyday is filled with new information for him. Remi-7; She also loves Nature journaling like he big sister, specially butterflies/moths, flowers and butterflies. This Summer she was really into growing flowers from seeds.
My kids are 8, 6 and 5. They love animals and going to our local hands-on science museum.
I love “lighting a fire” to learn and this backpack sounds great!
Our kids are 8, 6, and 3, and we have a baby on the way. They love learning about science topics of all kinds. As for their favorites? I’d say astronomy, oceanography, and the human body.
My kids are 9 and 11 yrs old. My kids favorite science activity is building gadgets with or without technology. We have been studying nature (plant/insect id’ing) just not as much as we could!
My soon-to-be 7-year-old step-daughter loves Zoology and her favorite activities right now are bird-, insect- and reptile-watching (and learning about them and their life cycles). She want to be a marine animal vet and is obsessed with all sorts of sea animals, but especially dolphins and baby harp seals. We sent away for 3 different seed packets: one for the bees, one for the butterflies and one for the hummingbirds. It’s been a joy watching her tend to her garden and photograph the various creatures that visit. Her father and I are both on disability and since I’m a former special education teacher, we are trying to educate her for free, as we don’t even make it month to month without help.
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My kiddos are 9, 7, & 5. We’ve been enjoying chemistry and my middle loves anything nature.
My boys are 10 and 8, they are totally into rocket science right now.
I have 12, 10, 7, and 3 year olds this year and we have been enjoying looking at anything we can wet mount through our old ompund microscope 🙂
My son age 7 loves Astronomy and my daughter age 5 loves learning about animals and doing Chemistry experiments.
My son 7 is fascinated by anything nature and learns so much by going to library and nature areas around us.
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My kids are 12, 10, 9, 7, 4 and 1. Right now, being summer time, they are of course fascinated with any and all bugs. Although they devour any science book they come across.
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My daughters (6 & 8) are primarily having fun with “kitchen science” kind of activities (exploring acids and bases, cooking changes, etc). We are hoping to start focusing on more Charlotte Mason Nature Walks/Studies when we officially start our new school year in 2 weeks.
My boys are 8 and 6. They love all science especially animals/nature and experiments.
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Kids are 5, 6, and 8. They love anything science- human body, earth, space, and experiments.
My daughter is 7. Right now she loves anything about animals.
My son is 5 and my daughter is 3. My son lives all things related to animals. My daughter is interested in the human body.
My children are 8, 5, and 3. They love bird watching and using their magnifying glasses around the yard and house!
My boys are 7,5, and 2. The 7 wants to understand how weather works. The 5 loves nature, and understanding the human body.
My boys are almost 4 and almost 2 and love to play with bugs and chase butterflies! My oldest also loves to make volcanoes for science. This kit would be awesome for them! We are always trying to catch bugs and watch them! 🙂
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My boys are 5 & 4. We enjoy doing mineral and rock digs. And also taking nature walks.
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Our children are 7, 5, 3, and 3 months. They’re always outdoors on scavenger hunts and love experiments!
This looks like a lot of fun for my 8 yo son, who loves learning outside and discovering/exploring in nature! What a great giveaway!
We have two girls, ages 7 and 2. They both love nature hikes and exploring outdoors. With our 7 year old we do lots of different magic school bus experiments too. Love Home Science Tools, just ordered some stuff for our 2nd grade plans. This backpack kit looks super cool! Blessings to you Jamie – love your blog! Thank you for sharing your heart.
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Our boys are 5(going on 6 soon) and they love anything that gets their hands dirty, and they both really enjoy “kitchen science” right now too!
My children are 30,29,26, 24, 24, 21,19 – and then the homeschooled set of 15, 14, 10, and 7. They love the natural sciences in general, especially anything to do with animals and weather.
I have a 15-year-old and five under five. The oldest really excels at biology and the younger group love nature and the outdoors. Thanks for sharing such wonderful resources!
My boys are 6 1/2, 4 1/2, and 1 1/2 (those half years are SO important!). They’re favorite science activity is astronomy.
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My kids are 14, 12 and 10. My oldest is curious about physics, 12 year old loves bugs and likes to build things like the Davinci project kits, 10 year old enjoys learning about rocks and birds.
My boys are 8 and 5 and they are currently super interested in space and dinosaurs! And my eldest wants to learn more about how engines work.
My oldest is 5 and very interested in animal science and life cycles/metamorphosis.
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14, 12, and 9. They all love marine biology
My child is ten years old and she loves to learn about plants and animals.
My kids of homeschooling age are 17, 15, 13, 13, 10, and 7. I’ve got some who love biology and animals and I have some who like the physics side of science especially machines.
My kids are 13, 12, and 5
We could really use this we don’t have much for science besides a book.
My kids are 7 and 3 and they are really into baking soda and vinegar reactions lately.
My kids ages are five years, three years, and four months. They love all things science-related these days, especially anything related to at-home science experiments or exploring nature.
5 and 3….bugs, bugs bugs, watching, catch and.release, drawing them……BUGS!
I have a 7 and 5 year old that are loving hands-on experiments right now.
My nine year old loves anything to do with technology.
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My son is 9 years old and we are studying plant species right now.
My 5 year old LOVES hands on experiments and also learning all about nature.
My 5 and 2-year-old love nature, especially gardening and insect observation. The 5-y-o is also really into air-and-space stuff and is beginning to show a bent for physics. Yay!
A three year old boy and a one year old daughter. My son likes volcano making right now and static electricity!
My sons are 7 and 11. They’re into zoology and chemistry.
My 9-year-old son loves astronomy/space, gemstones, and building things.
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My 7 year old and 4 year old love investigating insects in our backyard. And today they watched “In the Shadow of the Moon,” then built a rocket out of cardboard boxes and planned several “missions.”
My daughter is 8 and science is not my strong point. Support in this area would be exciting for us.
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6&2 – chemical mixing / reacting activities
Grace-Girl turns 9 today and loves experimenting with physics and chemistry (building stuff and baking, mostly). Baby Rain just turned 5 and loves birds and all things of nature… What a great give-away! Thanks!
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My kids are 9, 7, 5, and 2. They really enjoy birdwatching.
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My kids are 9,7, 4 and 1. The current favorite it bird watching. We bought a window feeder and book and they all love it!
I have an 8 yr old, 6 yr old, 4 yr old and 18 month old. My oldest loves everything to do with learning about animals, while my 6 and 4 yrs old love to go to the tidepools and examine the crabs and brittle stars up close.
My kids are 7 and 10 and they enjoy animal/nature studies.
my kids are 10, 7, 4, and 1. We have always loved Nature Walks!
My kids are 13,12,11,9,7,6,4,2. Their science interests are wide, but animal husbandry is big, and I have one daughter who is really into kitchen science.
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My children are 9 and 7 and love doing hands on activities. 🙂
Mine are 8, 4, and 2 and they love anything to do with animals.
My kids are 9 and 4. They love watching birds. We studied them last year. This year it’s sea life.
My girls are 2 and 5. My 5 year old loves learning how everything works. We do a lot of hands on activities and I answer all her questions as thoroughly as possible (or we look it up together on the internet).
Science in our favorite subject. Anything hands on excites my 2nd and 4th graders. It would be so much fun to add this kit to our homeschool science arsenal.
My kids are 7, 5 and 3 and my oldest two love doing pretty much any kind of science activities- especially ones that include simple kitchen ingredients. So anytime they get to mix stuff up and watch it have a reaction they are thrilled. We’ve had an ant farm and butterfly garden and that has been there ultimate favorite.
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10 and 11. They love anything having to do with nature or making messes! Lol! ????
my 11 year old enjoys all fields of science. summer nights and recent meteor shower means studying the night skies has been a favorite. also, we play in the creek and have many conversations about the watershed and its inhabitants.
11, 8, 6, 5, 2….and right now they LOVE anything with a chemical reaction! 🙂
3,7,11 and LOVE all things Science!
My boys are 6 and 4 and love any hands on science experiment!
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I have 5 boys, ages 13, 11, 8, 5, and 1. They currently enjoy snap circuits, lego robotics, and doing sketches of wildflowers. Thanks!
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Ages 8, 7, 5, 2, & new. All our kiddos are into any and all experiments, constantly coming up with their own too! They are big into wildlife, plant & insect observation on the daily.
My kids are 6 and 4, and they love any kind of experiment.
My 7 year son is net rested in studying the ocean. He likes to go and try to identify shells and fish.
My children are 15, 11, 5 & 5! They’re enjoying various aspects, anatomy of insects, their habitats, and the stages of life. 🙂
My children are 7, 10, 11, and 14. They love anything chemistry related, making a homemade volcano and see it “erupt,” look for butterflies, etc. Anything hands-on related, they love.
My 4 year old loves baking soda and vinegar fizzy experiments.
I have an almost 5 year old and almost 4 year old. :o) They love anything hands on but have taken a special interest in birds lately!
Age 6 & 8. They are loving to learn about the cycles of life so we are working on tadpole to frog and caterpillar to butterflies.
My daughters are 6 and 9. Right now, they’re enjoying building circuits with little light bulbs, motors, etc.
my boys are 14,12 and 10. they love EVERYTHING about science!!! we live in Yosemite, so out door exploring is big for us. so is lying out on our deck at night and star gazing through the trees…this includes bat watching and owl sightings. the boys also love anything related to chemistry! thank you so much for this opportunity……
9 and 6, and they both love nature scavenger hunts!
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7, 4, and 2. They like going on “explores” (i.e. slow, rambly walks). They also got up to see the perseids the other day.
My kids are 4.5, 2.5, and 6 months. They love nature walks and “experiments” – basically anything involving mixing things together 🙂
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My sons are 12, 6, and 2. My 12 yr old is into physics and robotics. My 6 and 2 yr old like to pour liquids into plastic beakers and test tubes.
My boys are 10 and 3. They love anything about birds, butterflies and nature.
My children beg to take our nature walks and draw in their nature journals! They are ages 12, 10, 8, 4, and 4!
Our kiddo is 6 and loves studying Astronomy right now!
This will be our first year homeschooling with our kindergarten age daughter, and she is in love with all things science! Right now she is really into birdwatching and finding out as much as she can about our local birds and their habitats – this giveaway would be perfect for her!
Three boys, ages 15, 14 & 11 and one girl age 10. Right now they are into gardening, bird watching and robotics.
My daughter is 10 and she loves going outside to watch and sketch butterflies.
My kids are 5, 3, and 11 months. My kids love to explore nature, see birds and other wild animals, and play with water.
My kids are 8 and 9. Right now they love collecting things and looking at them under a magnify glass
My kids are 15, 9, 6 and right now during the summer we are studying animals of the ocean.
My kids are 9, 7, 4, 2 and 4 months. My oldest kiddos love to spend time at the aquarium and rainforest exhibit to learn about animals and their habitats.
My kiddos are 8, 6, 4, 2, and eight months. Right now our favorite way to explore science is to go out to our amazing parks and do nature study.
My kiddos are 7, 6, 4 (triplets), 3, and 1. Right now the oldest loves astronomy so most of our science involves that.
11 and 13, and they like anything nature related, including looking at things from nature under a microscope.
My kids are 9, 7, 5 &2. They love ANY kind of science experiment!
We never tire of discoveries in nature. Looking forward to the fall and all kinds of nature walks with changing leaves!
My six year old would go crazy for something like this. (My three year old would probably fight her for it). They are already exploring every inch of our tiny city back yard with a little $5 handheld microscope. My daughter loves looking at anything through her little microscope and doing science experiments.
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My daughter is 6 and my son is 3. My daughter loves to catch bugs in a bug container and observe them before letting them go. Lizards are her favorite. They both also enjoy identifying trees with their daddy on evening walks. A prize would make my young little naturalists sooooo happy!!!
A boy, 5, and a girl, 3. Right now they are loving our butterfly habitat!
My daughters are age 14 and 9. The eldest is studying marine science (her dad is a commercial fisherman so lots of chances for us to really explore) and my youngest is doing CM style nature study.
I have an 11 year old that has recently cycled back around to loving dinosaurs and prehistoric mammals again – she loves to discuss their adaptations and how they fit into their habitats. The 8 year old is all about magnet experiments.
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My son(6) is really into minnows right now, after watching his grandpa catch some for fishing. So we caught some and now watching them grow, watching oodles of videos and making his own little book. My daughter(7) is into butterflies. She looked up on Google “flowers that attract butterflies.” So now she has her own “butterfly garden.” She sits outside for hours with her sketch book drawing pictures of every single butterfly. We have watched every video made on the life of butterflies 🙂
My kids are 6, 3, 1. They LOVE science! Their favorite is anything messy. ????
My kids are 3,6. Right now they love learning about animals! My six year old also loves to make up his own science experiments using various things in the kitchen:)
My children are 8, 6, 4, and 3. They’re favorite science activities this summer are finding toads in the backyard, looking for produce to harvest in our garden, and playing at the beach.
Our boys are 9 and 10 and they love any type of hands on science experiment.
My kiddos are 5 & 8, and this will be our first year as homeschoolers! They love to explore in the woods and prairie grass around our house in the country – anything in nature is exciting to them. We especially love to watch the birds at our feeder. This tool would fit exactly with our science units this year! 🙂
My kids are 9, 7, and 3. They love looking at things under a microscope.
My kids are 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12. Right now they’re into ponds, forests, and astronomy.
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My son is 7…he most enjoys nature walks (at the beach this time of year!) and finding treasures to bring home for our nature table (which leads to identifying rocks, feathers, etc.).
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Our daughter is 8 1/2 and starting 3rd grade this year! She loves to learn and we have been studying Crystals lately as well as cooking science. She loves butterflies and we have studied them and frogs and ducks outside by our pond this summer! She got to raise ducks for 3 weeks–what an experience that was!!
I have 4 boys (9, 7, 5 and 4-months-old). Would love this! We are currently into animal biology and ocean habitats.
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my kids are 6 and 8 and love collecting water on our hikes and then looking at it under the microscope
My 2 kids are 10 & 8 years old. They both love to take nature walks on our farm & collect leaves, flowers, rocks & other things they find. Once back at the house they press some of their leaves & flowers & use them in art projects.
My boys are 6 and 3 and they love learning about and looking for edible wild plants.
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My kids are 11, 9, 7, and 18 months. We’ve really been enjoying bird watching lately. It’s surprising how many different birds we’ve seen just in our backyard.
Hello! My kiddos are 2 and 6. My 6 year-old asks for a science project almost every day. We recently did most of the science projects from Camp Google. He loves anything hands-on, especially the making eggs float by increasing the amount of salt in water project. He loves trial and error and experimenting for alternate results. I’m so thankful he has a love for learning!
Would love to do more of a nature Science with my 3 boys. They are 8,9 and 10.
My kids are 4 and 1, and they enjoy our nature walks, and looking up the different kinds of animal scat we find!
My kids are 12, 10, 8, and 3 there favorite science activity right now is going on nature walks especially to lakes and reservoirs studying the little fish and other water creatures.
My kids are 7, 4 and 1. They love being outdoors and exploring. They love catching insects/critters, so this backpack would be great for them! Thanks for a chance to win it.
My oldest children are 5 and 3 and they are fascinated with bird watching right now.
My 8yo adores chemistry!
My kids are 9, 8, 7, 5, & 2. Overt they summer they have been busy finding abd identifying rocks, shells, and insects.
My girls are 10, 7, and 3 and my son is 16 months. The girls love bird watching and looking through bird books to find out what birds we’ve just seen.
my son is 11yrs old and loves to explore science in nature.
This is a great giveaway! My granddaughters are 5 and 3 and enjoy bird watching and nature walks. at this stage. They are about to move to the country which will only fuel their nature study passion.
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My boys are 3 and 5 and enjoy anything that I find a little too messy 🙂
My children are 3, 5, and 13.
They love to explore nature! Especially bugs…ewww!
12, 9, 2 and 6 months.
We love just being outside but occasionally will do some hands on experiment.
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they just dissected an owl pellet, they had so much fun!
My boys are 8, 6, and 3, and we love spending time outdoors. It would be nice to have a backpack of our own instead of the one we borrow at the local nature preserve.
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10, 10 and 9…..they love birds and watching for them every where.
My son is 27 months old and loves going outside to look at bugs with a magnifying glass. He loves to hear bird callings and will ask “What is that?”
We have 4 children, ages 4, 12, 14, & 16. We greatly enjoy nature studies, and the older kids are begging to study chemistry.
I love this! Homeschooling my son for the first time this year.
My kids are 10, 8, 7, 5, and 3. Nature study has always been our favorite way to study science!
My kids are 10, 9, 7, and 4. They love watching birds that come to our backyard feeder and identifying them with our field guide. 🙂
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My kids are 1 and 3.5. We love taking nature walks!
My kids are 10, 7, and 5. They love anything to do with an experiment at this age, but they’re really into the circuit experiment kit and “play” with it nearly every day!
5 year old. Everything to do with the solar system.
My kids are 1, 4, 5 and 10. This summer they have been interested in bugs and worms. They have also taken an interest in plants lately.
My girls are 9 and 6. Right now they really enjoy learning about everything. They always want to learn more about it, especially my 9 year old. We do alway come back to talking and learning about Space and herbs.
My kids are 11 and 7, and they love chemistry: anything that fizzes, blows up, or changes color! I would love to get them more interested in the natural world. This sounds perfect for us!
My kids are 2, 7, 9, 11. They love our nature journaling.
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My kids are 10 and 7, and LOVE nature study! This would be so fun to take along on our weekly walks!
My daughter is almost 6 and loves bugs. She currently has a caterpillar she captured yesterday in a jar with leaves and a stick, waiting for him to turn into a “racoon.”
My kids are 4,3, and 2 months. This week their favorite science activity was making a volcano with vinegar/baking soda, and food coloring lava.
My kids are 5, 4 and 2 years old. Right now they are enjoying collecting worms, slugs and rolly pollys and learning about their habitats.
My kids are 5 and 8. They love to do Science experiments. Thanks
My boys are almost 2 and almost 4 and we have a little girl on the way! My boys love to dig for worms, plan in the mud, catch bugs in water, climb tress, collect rocks and leaves and anything else that involves getting dirty.
Hi there, My kids are 8, 6, 3, and 4mos. My oldest loves science and exploring Creation. We are enjoying learning about biomes right now. We are talking about all the animals and plants that live in different places around the world and how they are able to survive the different climates.
had to look up biomes can’t say I remember learning the word put to the meaning.
Wonderful the girls are into exploring the world out there.
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My kids are 7, 9, 11 and 12. We enjoy finding caterpillars and watching them become Monarch butterflies.
I am homeschooling twin 5 year old boys. Right now they love to do experiments.
My daughter is twelve and loves any chemistry experiment and talking walks to collect or photograph bits of nature. Sometimes she will draw or watercolor the bits she’s collected.
My kids are 6, 3, & 1 right now and they love anything science related! They have been most interested lately in how germs attack our bodies & learning about insects.
My kiddos are 6, 4, 2, and 10 months. They love all things science, but their favorite experiments these days are any ones involving their model volcano or the telescope!
My boys are 5, 4, and 2 years old. They love bird watching, insect collecting and learning anything about animals.
My kids are 8 & 10 and we have been having a great time studying and identifying birds.
My 5 year old daughter loves natural science. In fact that’s what we are focusesing on this year. That kit looks wonderful!
My 3, 6 & 7 year olds love anything to do with experiments! My seven year old has a current fascination with the periodic table of elements and wants to create/find a new element that will one day be on the table. 🙂
Kids are 8, 5, 3, and 1. Right now we love nature study! And any experiments involving water.
The girls are 9, 7, 4, and 16 months. Right now their favorite things are chemical reactions and bugs. 🙂
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He is really into enviormental science!
My kids are 6, 4, and 2, and love to observe all aspects of nature, and find treasures (especially feathers)!
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My kids are 14 & 10. Now & always, they most love experiments. Trying things, reactions, the more experiments, the better! I’d love to win this — thank you for the giveaway. 🙂
I have an 8 year old daughter and she likes to do any kind of science experiment at all. We grew butterflies last year and she loved that!
My kids are 5.5, 4, 2.5, and 9 months. They love the exploring and asking “why” or “how does this work” about pretty much everything.
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My kids are 17,15,13, and 11. Right now they love to do hands on chemistry experiments. Popping, fizzing, bubbling, messy learning.
My kids are 12, 9 and 7. My kids like doing all kinds of things with baking soda!
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My son is 8 years old and we will be studying botany this year.
Hello, My son is 2 and we have another baby on the way. We are gearing up for homeschool and preschool at home. Our favorite science activity is just exploring outside with my son. Looking at bugs, birds and other wildlife. Thanks!
My child is 10 yes old. Her favorite science activities are hands on experiments. She loves seeing reactions.
My kids are 5, 7, and 9. They love searching for bugs, butterflies, and birds in our yard. The 9 year-old loves experiments–the messier the better!
My daughter is 10, and this is our first year homeschooling. We love the outdoors and go hiking and exploring often. Her favorite part of science is geology.
9,7 and 4
We just made CO2 cars– pretty amazing.
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Our boys are ages four and six. We live in Hawaii so we spend most of our days outdoors. We garden, hike and spend endless hours on the beach and in the ocean. Aquatic life and how plants grow and produce are some of my boys favorite interests.
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Stephanie
My kids are 2, 4, 6, and 8 and they enjoy going on nature hikes and exploring the tide pools at the beach.
My kids are 2, 4 and 6 and they are very into bugs, spiders, butterflies right now, so we do a lot of hiking, exploring and have even framed a few dead butterflies we’ve found. My 6yr old also loves experiments w/ beakers, droppers, etc. !!
We recently got laying hens, so we’ve been studying them 🙂 My kids (ages 10,8, and 5) also enjoy learning about insects. We have been gardening this summer as well.
My boys are 9 and 11 and right now we are enjoying identifying leaves, tree bark, and the fruits of the different trees in our area.
My kids are 5, 5 and 3. They love looking at things under their magnifying glasses, especially bugs they find in our yard!
My kids are 9, 6 and 5. They all love exploring nature. Bugs, caterpillars and butterflies. We recently found a cecropia caterpillar and watching it spin a caccoon. They can’t wait to see the moth.
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My kids are 15, 13, 11 & 9 and they enjoy anything with live animals or being outside in nature!
My boys are 5 and 3. They are really into worms and spiders! They love to capture and observe. Also they are loving making ice right now and I am finding a lot of interesting blocks of ice in our freezer in cups and bowls and ziplocs and then they melt them and do it again :-)!
17, 15, 10, and 8. Our family just got back from the east coast. So the science activity that we have enjoyed this past week was discovering life at the ocean.While there we found shells, crabs, jellyfish, rocks, and sea glass. We climbed rocks, walked on the beaches, and experienced the wonders of high tide and low tide. The children’s grandfather taught them how to catch fish and crabs with just a line and a hook.
7,4, and 2.
My kids adore catching and identifying bugs, and they’ve recently been interested in learning about how cooking changes food.
My kids are 6, 3, and 4 months. They are loving insects right now!
Wow, what a wonderful resource and give-away! Thank you! My kids are 10 and 7 and love all things nature. We just did an amateur naturalist project with 4-H. My 7 year old also loves science experiments of all kinds!
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My 9yo is all about everything animals. My 11yo loves electronics. My 14yo thinks she doesn’t like science. I’m currently in the process of tricking her – I mean surprising her! – with a little robotics and programming fun.
I’m schooling my last child, a 13-year old boy, and his favorite science activity is one that involves an experiment. Preferably one that fizzes, glows in the dark, or blows up:)
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My child is 10. She loves doing any hand on experiments – indoors or outdoors – the messier the better!