Welcome to Bedtime History. Hello, this is Brack.

Growing up, one of my favorite childhood memories was using my imagination to build new things.

I'd take apart old, unused electronics or appliances in our home, and then try and rebuild them into something new and interesting.

They usually didn't work. They were more like works of art than functioning inventions, but I had a blast doing it.

What's great about a product like KiwiCo is the things you build as part of the engineering kits actually work.

My kids and I have built a few different projects together, including a ukulele, a pinball machine, headphones, and a speaker.

These projects include detailed instructions and also explain the science behind how the devices work.

As a parent, it can be hard to find creative ways to keep your children busy, challenged, and off screens.

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Other subjects are science, art, engineering, crafting, and design. KiwiCo also has crates designed for kids and adults of all ages.

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So recently our family visited Disneyland in California. We thought it would be fun to make it part of our kids Christmas gift, and my wife surprised them by making a big poster with Disneyland written on it and a paper chain for each of the kids to count down days until we would go.

Our kids were so excited and counted down the days in anticipation. The day before we planned to go we loaded in our van in Arizona and drove the six hours to Anaheim, California.

The life doesn't always turn out like you plan. When we arrived it was raining and the forecast showed it would be raining every day we planned to go to Disneyland.

Fortunately my wife planned ahead and got rain coats and boots for everyone and even bought a shower curtain to drape over our stroller.

At times Disneyland wasn't quite the same because the sky was cloudy and there was lots of rain, but we made the best of it and went indoors when it rained or found somewhere to warm, warm to eat like the Gordon Horseshoe saloon.

We even watched a show and it was lots of fun, but when the rain stopped we went out and still got to go on lots of rides. In fact by the end of the trip we thought it was even better because the lines were so short.

We ended up having a great time together as a family, the older kids loved the more thrilling rides like Space Mountain and Splash Mountain, and even their little sister age 4 went on them.

But when she was done should say, that was scary, I only want fun rides, so we got to go on a lot of those rides with her too.

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