Now that we are officially into spring, meaning parents are beginning to look for stand-out summer activities for their kids. We thought we’d step in and give you some ideas on how to stay inspired during time off from school.

Springtime is when kids can explore new activities that will allow them to be both stimulated  but also able to relax. Summer at DIY.org is going to be fun-filled and loaded with new challenges.

Here are some DIY challenges to keep an eye on during your school break:

1. Let’s kickstart with an easy one: collecting recycled materials. This is an environmentally-conscious challenge that will help children become more aware of the waste produced by all of us in our everyday lives. 

2. You can arrange an indoor garden. (Spoiler alert: You’ll get your hands dirty.) As you may know, the presence of plants in our living space makes us happier and more productive!

3. We welcome you to take a walk in the woods. The key to this challenge is to pay attention to  everything you see, hear, smell and even taste. Take us with you on a video journey and narrate all the senses that are stimulated by the world around you.

4. This challenge is quite literally in the sun! Simply take interesting photographs with a shadow as a subject – could be your shadow or others’.

5. A tipi is a cone-shaped shelter that historically uses animal skins and wooden poles, but modern tipis can be made with tarps, canvas, or bedsheets. Let’s build one! 

6. How about building a solar cooker this summer? It’s a lot easier (read: fun) than it sounds. All you need isa large enough cardboard box and aluminum foil.

We think all of our challenges on DIY are worth trying but what makes our science challenges so special, you ask? While having fun you’re also understanding the building blocks to many scientific principles - and that’s pretty COOL!

This week, we’re sharing with you some of our favorite science challenges:

1. Let’s begin with How to Create a Parachute – it’s quite simple (as long as your parachute flies in the end)! 

2. The best way to know if an object conducts electricity is to NOT touch it with your bare hands. Here’s where an electricity tester comes in handy. Try building one!

3. Want to see like an insect? Possibly the easiest science challenge on the list shows you how: Build compound eyes out of straws.

4. Learn how to build a camera lens – the way you experiment with photography will change after creating this! 

5. How about transforming energy into sound? Build a noisemaker!

We hope you have fun. Don’t forget to share your projects with us!

We started DIY in 2012 with a mission to enable any kid, anywhere to learn any skill. It’s amazing to see how thousands of DIYer kids have benefited already – picking up something as basic as drawing a straight line to something as complex as creating electricity out of potatoes.

This constant drive to teach and learn something new has become our DNA – this is the core of DIY. However, of late, we realized that there is so much more that we can do to push the very frontiers of DIY. For starters, we want more and more kids to become a part of this awesome community and make the most of this platform. And we don’t want parents to think twice about spending on their child’s development. 

To make this happen, we’ve substantially brought down our monthly subscription fee from $19 to only $4.99 (access for 1 kid) and also added an annual subscription for the same at $49.99. That’s right! Similarly, we’ve also dropped our monthly family subscription fee to only $7.99* (access for 2-4 kids) and added an annual family subscription at $79.99. 

We believe this collective price drop will go a long way in encouraging more parents to keep kids enrolled in DIY.  

Apart from this much needed change to the price, we are also working on restructuring our content. Young DIYers will start enjoying the following features in the coming days:

• Many more skills and challenges than ever before
• New courses are being added such as dance, yoga, chess, vocals, etc. 
  
• A more active community with more Mods (moderators)
  

Our collective aim is to boost this enriching ecosystem that’s been developing for almost a decade now. And with these positive changes in motion, we’re sure we’ll be reaching out to a much larger audience of young, enthusiastic kids in the near future. 

With DIY – any kid, anywhere, can learn any skill. For the love of learning! 

*only the family monthly plan is available on iOS App Store