Zipline

"Mom, mom! You have to come see what we did!" Lincoln calls to me from up the stairs.

It was Sunday after church, and the kids had been up in quiet time for about an hour. Aaron was still at the church counting tithing, and I'll admit, I was hesitant to go up stairs to see what sort of disaster I was going to have to clean up.

But I was pleasantly surprised. The kids had spent the last hour building a zipline with K'nex and crochet thread. They'd set up Ollie's mini basketball hoop on the closet door at one end of the hall, and ran the line to a stool in the bathroom at the other end. They were ziplining all sorts of things, Barbies, Lego men, Ivan even built a ship out of paper and K'nex and used two pullies to zip lots of cargo down the line at the same time. I was so impressed with it all, especially because they played with it happily for hours. And didn't fight.

STEM education, done and done.