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A Night At The Science Center
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt may not have been a Night At The Museum, but my daughter, Natasha, and her Brownie troop experienced the next best thing when they had a sleepover at the Ontario Science...
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“Shared Worlds” Offers A Creative Alternative To Summer Camp
Reading Time: 3 minutesLooking for a summer camp for your teen that offers something a little different? How about an immersive two-week program where students work with noted authors to create a...
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National Park Service Offering Several Fee-Free Weekends this Summer
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo: National Park Service This summer, over 100 of our national parks that usually charge an entrance (or commercial tours) fee will offer several weekends during which the...
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Driving To PEI: a Dinosaur, Potatoes and a Bridge! Oh, My!
Reading Time: 4 minutesI’m just back from a few weeks off camping in Canada’s smallest province, Prince Edward Island (or PEI for the acronym crowd). It was a long drive, but completely worth it. I’ll...
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30 Classic Games for Simple Outdoor Play
Reading Time: 14 minutes Image: Jonathan Liu When I was a kid, we played outside with the other kids in the neighborhood with most of our free time. We also made the most of recess at school. We kept...
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GeekDad Visits The Western Fair
Reading Time: 3 minutesFall is almost here (officially, at least, although it’s felt fall-ish for much of the summer where I live) and that means fall fair season is in full swing. London, Ontario’s...
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GeekDad Camps At Bon Echo
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe just wrapped up the 2009 camping season after taking the kids out of school for a few days and booting it up to Bon Echo. One thing we learned about camping during the week in...
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Toronto’s Historic Sites Free For Kids This Saturday
Reading Time: 1 minute Just a quick note to let readers in the Toronto, Ontario area know that the city is offering free admission for kids 12 and under to the city’s numerous historic sites. This...
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SWAT Team Takes Down Man Armed With LEGO Gun
Reading Time: 2 minutes 9mm Replica in LEGO image: Brickgun.com According to the National Post, a Toronto man who happens to be a big LEGO fan, was working in a downtown office on Friday when the...
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Preparing for Summer: Projects and Playtime
Reading Time: 3 minutes Image by mikebaird via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution License We’re still in the middle of spring, but summer is approaching fast, and summer break from school even...
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Take Your Kids for a Hike with National Geographic’s Trails Illustrated Maps
Reading Time: 4 minutes Image: National Geographic Summer is fast approaching, and it’s a great time for hiking. Whether it’s a quick trip of a few miles with your whole family (and peanut M&Ms, of...
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Summer Vacation Reviewed: GeekDad Visits Canada’s Wonderland
Reading Time: 4 minutes My wife and I took the kids to Canada’s Wonderland last weekend to kickstart the summer vacation season. I was a little worried about how this was going to turn out. Wonderland...
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Review: Find Your Next Letterbox With the Clue Tracker iPhone App
Reading Time: 3 minutes Image: Pearl Crescent Geocaching tends to have quite a few electronic helpers, based on the fact that it’s an electronic sport. Letterboxing, however, the old fashioned analog...
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Giveaway: Gogo’s Crazy Bones
Reading Time: 4 minutesHave you heard of Gogo’s Crazy Bones? If not, and you have school-aged kids, I suspect you’ll know all about Mosh, Hiraku, B-Boy and hundreds of other characters before too long....
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Building LED Models With Laser Pegs
Reading Time: 4 minutesWith three kids in their prime Lego years, we have amassed a considerable collection of bricks. However, while we do have some motorized components, we don’t have any illuminated...
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A Lego Wall Worth Peeking Over (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis amazing Lego wall is the work of Denmark-based Lene Rønsholt Wille. The circular wall, called “Metaphorical Horizons,” took six weeks and 270,000 white LEGO blocks. It is...
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Geeked About the Greeks
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pandora's Box By Lilianna Maxwell Every summer I run a History through the Creative Arts camp for homeschoolers in my area. It started as a way to do history with my own...
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General Grievous vs the Cats: When Is It Okay to Glue Lego?
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere’s a bit of an unwritten law among Lego geeks that gluing a kit together is taboo —unless you’re creating something for use in Legoland, where presumably, large scale models...
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Kids + Swimming – For Parents
Reading Time: 3 minutesPublic Domain (No attribution required) For most families, teaching your kids to swim is a given. Many of us assume that our friends’ kids can swim, or can tread water well...
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A Night At The Science Center
It may not have been a Night At The Museum, but my daughter, Natasha, and her Brownie troop experienced the next best thing when they had a sleepover at the Ontario Science Centre. Besides having a day...
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