{"id":303,"date":"2014-06-10T14:09:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T19:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/?p=303"},"modified":"2014-06-10T14:09:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T19:09:43","slug":"jen-reads-maker-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/2014\/06\/10\/jen-reads-maker-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen reads: Maker Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Maker<\/a>Maker Dad: Lunch Box Guitars, Antigravity Jars, and 22 Other Incredibly Cool Father-Daughter DIY Projects<\/a> by Mark Frauenfelder<\/a>
\nMy rating: 4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n

Full disclosure: I am not a dad, but someday I might be a mom, and I feel like a mom could want to do the sort of experiments with her kid(s) that are featured in MAKER DAD just as much as a dad would (or help a dad out). There are dozens of activities here, some of which I couldn’t do, since I don’t have the typical masculine tools like a band saw or a solder sucker (I can wield a mean hammer, though). But all the activities look eminently doable and are presented in a very appealing way. The easy activities need little in the way of materials or time, but the more challenging ones could take many trips to the hardware store and a few days. It says father-daughter on the cover, but many of the activities are gender-neutral, good for introducing your DIY-savvy little ones to STEM education in a fun way. When I have kids, I will be glad I know about this book. My only gripe is that some of the activities don’t interest me enough to outlay the time and money to get the necessary materials.<\/p>\n

Received as a free digital ARC via Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.<\/p>\n

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In which Jen reads MAKER DAD and wants to get hands-on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Jen reads: Maker Dad","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,17,82,43,45],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","has-excerpt","post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-reviews","tag-contemporary","tag-crafty","tag-kids","tag-netgalley","tag-nonfiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3A5W1-4T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}