All the suggestions for kits and projects are great (and I've done my share of them with my own kids), but I agree with lena that the best thing by far is to teach them to use tools safely and build them a space where they can fool around on their own. I worked on a story at Wondertime magazine about a family that did just that: it's called "Charlie's Workshop".
>The list of items and tasks for the 2004 version of >the infamous University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt >(or scavhunt for short) is up as a PDF. As a >veteran of the first hunt in 1985, I'm glad to see >the youngsters carrying on the madness.
I hate to be a pendant, but I'm one of the authors of the first UofC Scavenger Hunt List, and we wrote it in 1987.
In 1985 I wasn't even out of high school.
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All the suggestions for kits and projects are great (and I've done my share of them with my own kids), but I agree with lena that the best thing by far is to teach them to use tools safely and build them a space where they can fool around on their own. I worked on a story at Wondertime magazine about a family that did just that: it's called "Charlie's Workshop".
>The list of items and tasks for the 2004 version of >the infamous University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt >(or scavhunt for short) is up as a PDF. As a >veteran of the first hunt in 1985, I'm glad to see >the youngsters carrying on the madness. I hate to be a pendant, but I'm one of the authors of the first UofC Scavenger Hunt List, and we wrote it in 1987. In 1985 I wasn't even out of high school.