Perseid Meteor Shower Watching at Lake Afton Public Observatory
The 2012 Perseid meteor shower is expected to peak on Sunday night, August 12. Lake Afton Public Observatory is inviting shower-watchers to come set up lawn chairs or blankets outside the observatory from 11 p.m. Sunday to about 2 a.m. Monday. (Bring your bug spray.) It’s free to watch for shooting stars outside the observatory. […]
Chalk Art Festival in Wichita’s Old Town
The Chalk Art Festival is FREE and will feature live
demonstrations from 40 artists including, Ethan Patrick Harris, illustrator, and Jacki McElroy-Wood,
caricature artist. Kids can make their own sidewalk chalk art …
Learn to Make a Kite
Earlier this summer we set out to make a very simple-looking kite with instructions we found on the Internet — only to find that it wouldn’t fly. We still had fun spending time together as a family, watching our “simple” kite get more and more complicated as we added tails, supports, string, tape, and other […]