Nicolette | Engineer Mom

✨ START HERE ✨ Engineering completely changed the way I experience the world. It made me notice things…

He wasn’t just building. He had a goal 🥹 He wanted the ball to travel through the tubes, land back in the…

Most people think engineering starts with equations. But for kids, it starts with a problem. We “lost” the…

We found a helicopter in nature… so naturally, we had to try engineering our own. 🌱🚁 After learning how…

Did nature build a helicopter before engineers did? 🌱🚁 Long before we started designing machines, nature…

🍎 Why isn’t this apple browning?! While it may look like these spooky mouths are starting to rot, they’re…

We set out to make an apple sink… and accidentally turned it into an engineering mission 😂🍎 We started…

This is your sign to make paper airplanes before summer ends. ✈️ What looks like a simple paper airplane…

Will Mr. Turtle survive the tornado we engineered? 🐢🌪️ This started as a simple water tornado experiment……

He’s only 4. But he already knows how special it feels to make something yourself 💛 He made his very first…

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This is the kind of learning I want to protect. Because before kids ever learn the word “engineering,”…

We started with something so simple: a piece of hard candy 🍭 Then we added a little heat, watched it…

Explore air pressure with Suction Kupz! 🙌 Each of these six colorful, squishy cups features a suction cup…

One day, the “why?” will stop. And someday, we’ll miss that little voice that needed to know everything.…

You’ve probably watched popcorn pop hundreds of times… but have you ever stopped to think about what’s…

No motor. No batteries. Just air. 🚀 We made a balloon “rocket” and sent it from the garden to the deck to…

We had a problem! Big Ted was TOO hot on this summer afternoon. 🥵🐻 So we set out to build a fan powerful…

🌬️ WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST DISCOVERY SERIES Meet the Invisible Big Question: What is air? Over the next…

He wasn’t just playing with a race track… he had a goal 🥹 When the train couldn’t make it through because…

We’re raising kids in a world where almost everything feels like magic. Flip a switch, and the lights turn…

We thought we had this one figured out… until SPLAT. 💦😂 At first, the paper created an airtight seal…

Two experiments. One engineering concept. At first glance, these activities look completely different. One…

We didn’t just decorate cute hot air balloons—we talked about why real hot air balloons can fly. When air is…