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Let’s Make Robots that Look like Robo-Pete the Cat

March 30, 2018 By Deirdre

Let’s Make Robots that Look like Robo-Pete the Cat! When you think of word robot, I bet you think of it moving across the floor. This robot features an internal gear system that makes Robo-Cat’s body spin. Your children will have fun creating a Pete the Cat themed robot that can spin around.

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Before your children start the Let’s Make Robots activity, you will want to read them the bookPete the Cat: Robo-Pete. In the book Pete the Cat: Robo Pete builds a robot so he will have someone to play with when all of his friends are busy. Your children will have fun creating a cat robot they can play with.

Let’s Make Robots

Gathering the Supplies for the Let’s Make Robot Activity

You will need the following:

Two Wood Craft Dowel Rods per child
One plastic or container per child
Two small foam circles
Hole Punch
Glue
Tape
Drinking Straw
Blue posterboard or construction paper
Items to decorate the robot with (construction paper, buttons, markers, etc…)
Scissors

Building the Robot

You will start cutting out a Robo-Pete out of construction paper or posterboard. Then your children will need to decorate their robot.

Once that is done, they will place a hole in the top of the cup or container.

Then you will place two holes in the side of the cup. Both need to be across from each other. They also need to be about an inch from the bottom of the cup.

You will then take a small section of a straw and tape it to the top of plastic cup or container.

Next, you need to put one of the wooden dowels through the top hole. You will need to push a foam circle unto the dowel inside the cup. The circle should be horizontal. You can push it all the way to the top of the cup for now.

Then you will place the second wooden dowel into one of the side holes. You will reach up into the cup and slip on a foam circle. The circle should be standing upright.

Next, you will move both foam circles into the center of the container so they are touching.

It is now time to glue your Robo-Pete to the dowel sticking out of the top of the container.

Making Let’s Make Robots Move

You will need to hold the plastic container in one hand. Then you can turn the horizontal dowel with your other hand. When you turn the dowel the robot.

If you like this let’s make robots STEM activity, here are some more we have done.

Building a Garden Fence for Peter Rabbit

Growing Carrot Tops in Bottle Greenhouses

Growing Pumpkin Seeds in a Pumpkin

Harry the Dirty Dog Thaumatrope

This post is part of the Storybook Science Series hosted by Inspiration Laboratories.

Decorating Robots in Sensory Bags

October 19, 2017 By Deirdre

These sensory bags feature robot outlines. Your children will have fun moving the objects inside the sensory bag to add details to the robots. This activity part of a series called 31 Days of ABC. These sensory bags were designed to be used on R Day! While many of the activities in this series are for younger children. I found my 9-year-old decorating the robot several times this week.

Putting the Sensory Bags Together

These sensory bags are so easy to make. You really only need seven supplies to put them together.

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Supplies

Print Out of a Robot Outline
Clear Hair Gel
Permanent Marker
Gallon Size Zipper Bags
Two Wiggly Eyes
Bag of Buttons
Star Pony Beads

Directions

You will need to download a copy of the Robot Outlines for the Decorating Robots in Sensory Bags Activity. Then you will trace the robot onto the bag with a permanent marker.

Next, you will fill the bag with the contents of a bottle of hair gel. The hair gel should be about 1/4 of an inch thick in the bag.

Finally, you will place the eyes, buttons, and beads into the bag. (It is okay to keep them at the top to start with. ) Then seal the bag.

Exploring the Sensory Bags

There are several ways your children can explore the bag. Here are a few we thought of:

Give the robot a face and button joints
Place buttons and beads on its chest
Cover its body with buttons and beads
Move stars onto the robot’s chest on bead at a time. Count the stars when you place them on the robot.
Place the buttons symmetrically on the robot

If you like this sensory activity, here are some more you will like.

Pumpkin Counting Activities and Sensory Bottle

Let’s Explore Shapes Sensory Bowl and Cards

31 DAYS OF ABC

K – OCTOBER 12

Pennies of Time: K Is for Kindness- This is no longer available.

L – OCTOBER 13

Schooling Active Monkeys: L Is for Lion Craft

M – OCTOBER 14

Sugar, Spice & Glitter: M is for Madeline

N – OCTOBER 15

All Done Monkey: N Is for Nature Crafts

O – OCTOBER 16

Kitchen Counter Chronicles: O Is for Owl Bookmark Printable

P – OCTOBER 17

Creative World of Varya

Q – OCTOBER 18

Discovering the World Through My Son’s Eyes: Q Is for Quito

R – OCTOBER 19

JDaniel4’sMom: R Is for Robot

S – OCTOBER 20

Discovering the World Through My Son’s Eyes: S Is for Spanish

U – OCTOBER 22

The Educators’ Spin On it: U Is for Unicorn

W – OCTOBER 24

My Story Time Corner: W Is for Wheels on the Bus

X – OCTOBER 25

The Mommies Reviews: X

Y – OCTOBER 26

Teach Me Mommy: Y Is for Yarn Letters

Z – OCTOBER 27

Bambini Travel: Z Is for Zoo Animals

Robot Building Kit From Green Kids Craft – Love It

March 11, 2017 By Deirdre

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JDaniel is supposed to build a robot as one of his Scout projects. When we had the opportunity to review a robot building kit from Green Kid Crafts, I jumped at the chance. The robot building kit came with directions and most of the supplies to create several different robots. (The supplies that didn’t come in the robot building kit were things that we had a home. ) We even used the box! These really are green kid crafts.

There are a number of other kits available on the Green Kids Crafts site. If your children are not into robots, I think you will find a theme that they are into. Each kit is about $25.00. I think it is totally worth it.

Robot Building Kit Activities

Let me walk you through each of the robots you can make if you get the robot building kit.

ArtBot

The Artbot activity features a cup, markers and a Hexbug. (JDaniel loves Hexbugs!) He loved putting the bot together and having it draw abstract pictures.

The bot actually drew its lines on a piece of paper placed in the bottom of the box. As I mentioned, the box ended up being used in each of the robot building kit activities.

Magnet Bot

JDaniel said this was the easiest of the bots to put together. He used the markers from the ArtBot to decorate the small wooden sticks that would become its arms. He really tried to use the materials that came with the kit. That was easy to do! Much of what he needed came with the kit.

After you create the Magnet Bot, you use a magnet to drag it from the beginning to the end of a maze that comes with the kit. JDaniel was better able to hold the magnet under the box and later a piece of cardboard when he started at the finish in the middle rather than the start.

GlideBot

You will use the remaining box parts to create the GlideBot. Cutting through the cardboard was a little tricky for JDaniel. I finally ended up cutting out the pieces for the robots arms, legs, head, and body. He decorated the robot’s body with stickers that came with the kit. Each of the brass fasteners holding the robot together was covered with one of the stickers.

We decided to use a hole punch to make the holes to put the brass fasteners through. The directions didn’t say to do that. It ended up being a mistake. We should have done what the directions told us too. We found the directions cards for each activity were always correct. All we had to do was follow each step on them.

The robot building kit would be a great birthday or end of school gift. If you have children that need to stay inside due to pollen, this kit would be wonderful for them.

Disclaimer: We were sent a Robot Workshop box to review.

What is a Golden Birthday? – Robot Party and Cake

March 12, 2013 By Deirdre

JDaniel celebrate his birthday several days last week. I guess if it is your Golden Birthday it tends to be celebrated many times due to the fact that it comes only once in your lifetime. What is a Golden Birthday? Well, JDaniel celebrates his birthday on the 5th of March and he did turn five on that day. I shared with you last week his Golden Birthday breakfast. Along with sharing the food creations from that breakfast, I wanted to share the cakes I made for his class and his Chuck E. Cheese party.

Robot Birthday Cake

I looked forward to putting together his golden robot birthday cake all week. I found a robot cake on the Betty Crocker website and tried to create one like it. It was so easy to put together, but took me a little longer than I thought it would.The cake is a simple yellow cake. The icing is caramel and was created stir in flavor packet and canned frosting. Before frosting the cake I cut 2/3 off the top and used it for the body. I also cut a narrow sliver off the body to use for his feet. Everything but his cupcake hands came from a cake made in a 9×12 pan. His hands are made from two cupcakes. Oh! and his ears or head bolts are made of a cupcake cut in half.

Once the cake was frosted, licorice to connect this hands and feet to his body. Extra licorice Skiddles, Life Savers in gummy form, and golden Oreo like cookies to create his buttons and facial features. I had a blast creating them.

Robot Cupcakes

JDaniel took these cupcakes to school on Wednesday for snack. He doesn’t go to school on Tuesday so, we had to wait a day to celebrate his birthday with his class. I asked, “What is a golden birthday?” They hadn’t heard of it before and they thought is was cool.I used the same cake mix and frosting combination to make his his cupcakes that I later used to make his cake. The robots also had the same licorice mouths. These mouths were a lot more serious than the one on the cake. A food maker was used to draw eyeballs on the Skittles. Marshmallow were cut in half to make the robot’s head bolts or ears.

Golden Breakfast

You may remember that JDaniel’s Golden Birthday Breakfast was filled with a variety of golden foods. He had golden apple parfaits made up of apple pie filling, yogurt, and Golden Grahams cereal layered in a cup. He also had doughnut holes served the shape of a five and apple juice. Golden Birthday Robot Treat Bags

Last week I shared a post called 23 Moms Share Treat Bags Ideas with you. I loved so many of their ideas that I tried to incorporate them into JDaniel’s treat bag.

I didn’t buy special bags for his treats instead I used plain zip lock bags. They were so easy to seal and parents didn’t have to deal with ribbons and party bag. They weren’t pretty, but they were functional.

Into the bags I placed a thank you card for coming to the party, a robot sticker book, robot stickers, fruit chews, and two fruit strips. I didn’t what to include candy or plastic trinkets The moms in the treat bag post had said they didn’t like to see them in the bag.

The parents seemed pleased with this and so were the kids.

I think this is my favorite party theme so far!Did celebrate your golden birthday?

Valentine Cards Idea – “You Rule” Robot for Kids

February 14, 2013 By Deirdre

Dear Readers, This is valentine card idea is one I made in Paint for JDaniel to pass out to his class with a ruler attached to it. He fell in love with some cards at the store that had pop out eyes and really wanted to give them to his classmates instead. These cards will be set aside until next year. Well, maybe not all of them. I do wish I could send you each of Valentine cards. Why? You really do rule!I learn so much from the interaction that I have with you in comments, on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Your feedback and comments have helped me so much. They encourage, guide, support and sometimes make me laugh. I mean to laugh in a good way. The moments that you share help me to realize that you have children that do and say things just as unique, humorous and special as my guy does. They are priceless.

It isn’t often that I stop to thank you for the blessing that you are in my life. My husband hears about your comments and insights just like I share thoughts and insights of the friends I see in my everyday life. The truth is you have become a part of my everyday life.It is through my interactions with you that blogging opportunities have come up and connections with other wonderfully wise people readers. You rule!

You have let me guest post on your blogs and you have guest posted here. If you don’t have a blog, you have to lead me to a wonderful post that you have enjoyed on your favorite blogs.It isn’t possible to measure all that you have done. In this post, I could try to list every person and way that you have helped my blog and me, but I don’t think you want to read a super long post. I will say that if I made a list of who you are the other readers would nod their heads in agreement because you have impacted them too. Your comments have echoed the same thoughts they had or made them take a second look a post to see in it what you did.

Thank you so much for all you do. It is better than any box of chocolates I might get on Valentine’s Day. Your friendships and impact will last so much longer.