Hands-On Learning: Colors
We have a lot of fun with science around here. Once you get to know me a little, you come to expect random “science days” or experiments—and lots of messes! It makes sense after all, I write nonfiction for kids, parents, and teachers and mainly focus on science and nature topics. You’d expect, then, that I have brainwashed my children to have a nurtured within my children a love of science, too. One of our favorite recent experiments dealt with color. We set up baby food jars with water colored with food coloring – red, blue, and yellow, and had one filled with clear water. (We do...
Hands-On Learning: Bird Nests
In 2009 I wrote a book for Mitchell Lane Publishers called, A Project Guide to Reptiles and Birds. One of the best things about working on that book was its focus on hands-on projects, experiments, and activities integrated into what would otherwise have been a typical nonfiction book about the topic. Another great thing about writing that book and creating activities to include in it, was that my kids and I had to try all of the projects ourselves. This forced-immersion into a topic I was researching created some birders and *possibly* a budding ornithologist. Winter, when the...
Hands-On Fun: Crayon Melt Art
So… you may have seen the cool crayon art making its way around the Internet. On Pinterest… Being sold on Etsy… On blog after blog… We saw it, too, and decided it was the perfect way to use up some of those 25-cent boxes of crayons that we picked up during the back-to-school sales. Wanna try? Grab: crayons (we used about 70) a canvas (ours is 16” by 20”) a hot glue gun a hairdryer (or three)Make sure you drape your craft area because if you have little ones wielding hot hairdryers towards melting crayons, you’ll have wax EVERYWHERE – trust me! First, empty the crayons onto the floor...
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