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Mother's Day Swan Sculptures

Mother's Day Swan Sculptures

To celebrate all the Moms and special ladies in our lives, Firefly Art sculpted these super swans using paint, pipe-cleaners, glue, and bright modeling clay...

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LEGO Battle Ship

LEGO Battleship

Just imagine: a 24 foot long battleship made entirely from over 10,000 LEGO pieces! Jim McDonough spent 3 years building this enormous tribute to the World War II era USS Missouri, making sure to...

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Earth Day Owl

Earth Day Owl

Happy Earth Day! In order to mark the occasion, our Firefly Artists drew these wise owls and healthy environmental practices on 100% recycled paper. Surrounding each of our Earth Day Owls are healthy ways to care for the environment...

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CitiBloc Biodome

CitiBloc Biodome

Happy Earth Day! To celebrate, Early Engineers made these Biodomes to learn about closed systems, homeostasis, and self-contained environments. A biodome like the ones pictured above is a completely contained structure...

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Sandpaper Surf's Up

Sandpaper Surf's Up

Catch a wave with this week's awesome Firefly Art project: our artists used sandpaper and colorful crayons to make this radical beach scene! The advantage of making this week's picture on sandpaper is that it gives...

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Solar Fans

Solar Fans

This week, our eager Early Engineers cooled off with these super solar fans, and learned about the real world science of gear ratios! The blades on these fantastic fans spin...

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Safari Jeep

Safari Jeep

Friday cheers, Firefly Fans! This week, Firefly Art went on safari to learn about patterns in the animal kingdom and some exciting new shading techniques! Our awesome artists used soft pastels...

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LEGO Video Game

LEGO Video Game

This week, Early Engineers took a look at the science behind some of our favorite video games with this awesome LEGO build! Note how part of the image above left is blurred, while part is in focus. This simple image demonstrates the effect of refresh ratess...

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