 After we did our last experiment, Meredith asked if we could do another. When I asked her what sort, she said she wanted to fill up a bowl of water and put an apple in and see what happened. I almost tried to veer her in a bit of a different direction [...]  I have had this experiment at the back of my mind for a long time, but recently read about it again and thought it might be something Meredith would have fun with now (and get why it’s so neat). Basically, you mix up two parts of corn starch and one part water (it works [...]  We were out with a good friend at the beach yesterday, and Fiona fell asleep on the way home. When we got home, I parked in the shade, left the doors open, and Meredith and I proceeded to take some pictures and talk about some of the flowers growing nearby while we waited for [...]  I’d read about seed balls a few times and thought it might be an interesting project to try, but hadn’t got around to it. Basically, seed balls are a mixture of clay, compost, and seeds formed into a ball. The clay protects the seed from birds and insects, the compost gives it something to [...]  I keep mentioning this project we did. It was so successful I really want to actually write about. This kept her attention the entire time and she did most of it completely on her own. Meredith had told me she wanted to watch Three Little Pigs. I originally thought of making her a felt [...]  We had a farewell play date with some of the other moms and kids in the co-op this morning, where we made snow globes with the kids. I didn’t think to bring my camera with me there unfortunately, but we decided to make snow globes. This was definitely more of a mom’s craft than [...]  A few moms in our co-op organized a Luminara Lantern Festival for the kids this year. Luminara has been a yearly thing here in Victoria since 2000, but I’d never heard of it until last year, and this year was the first time we’d done anything for it. Luminara began in 2000, [...]  Over the weekend, Meredith suddenly very excitedly started chattering about her “mama apple” and wanting to see it. It took me a minute to realize she meant our mummified apple project. It had been less than a week so I wasn’t confident anything would have happened, but I didn’t want to dampen her [...]  While Meredith wasn’t terribly interested in most of the Ancient Egypt books I got, she loved the Eyewitness Mummy one. We found a cool game online, Discovery Kids Mummy Maker, that she has had a blast with. Her and I played the game together the first couple of times, [...]  I had wanted to keep up with the weekly Unplugged projects, but through the summer we spent a lot of time outdoors and it fell to the wayside. This last week Meredith wasn’t feeling well and had no interest in going outside, getting dressed, or really doing much besides cuddling on the [...] |
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