Friday Fun: 60+ ideas for fun this weekend

Show your kids this rejection letter to a girl from NASA to remind them about our very recent history—and how change can happen when we fight for it.

Make these gooey chocolate chip cookie dough bites with your family this weekend. Want full cookies? Try this lazy chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Introduce your kids to these 11 sounds they’ve probably never heard before (unless you watch old movies).

Here are a whopping 55 ideas for summer fun from Laura Grace Weldon, including building bat houses, frying dandelion fritters and making veggie pops.

Try making one of these amazing tree dollhouses. Wood Sprite is going to absolutely love the one we’re making for her birthday (provided that we finish it) for October! If we do, I will definitely post photos.

Make this super cool pen/pencil/whatever holder out of toilet paper rolls! And follow the I Love DIY Facebook page it’s listed on to find even more cool projects.

Make your own bouncy balls.

Try making coasters from curling ribbon.

Make some edible jello fingerpaint! Yum! Actually, I don’t like jello very much, but I know a lot of kids do.

Make some fettuccine alfredo pasta the Olive Garden way.

If you haven’t tried Michaels Passport to Imagination yet, give it a whirl. It’s only $2 and includes supplies. We took Wood Sprite today and she loved it!

Share this story about a teen who has made an alternative to petroleum-based plastic with banana peels with your kids and see what cool inventions they come up with.

Freely Educate has 5 free ideas for indoor summer learning.

Try these “best darn ham sandwiches you’ll ever have.” Here’s a recipe for gooey cheesy garlic bread, too!

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