Jan. 30, 2009 - busy, busy
We've been up to lots this week, since we're trying to play catch up and all. We made some homemade play-doh. We used this no cook recipe and added a little cream of tartar for elasticity.
---If you're thinking the little boy with the Mohawk doesn't look familiar that's because he's not ours =)
We learned about another bird beak today--the nectar sipper. Here's Mason's drawing.
He also drew the tree we've been drawing according to the seasons---here's winter
Not the greatest drawing he's done, but to his credit it was freezing, and Mom may have been urging him to hurry for her sake =-) When I presented him with the sentence 'Winter is .' He said " A wonderland" so that's what he wrote.
We also made recycled paper today.
* First we cut a newspaper into long thin strips.
* Second we packed 1 1/2 cups of the strips into a clean glass jar.
* Next comes hot tap water 3/4 of the way up the jar. After shaking you let it sit for 3 hours, stirring with a wooden spoon periodically.
* After it's creamy and pasty it goes into a blender with 3 Tablespoons of cornstarch dissolved in hot water. Blend it, and then pour it into a baking pan. Place a metal screen on top of the mixture in the baking pan, then gently push it down into the pan until the mixture covers it. Bring the sceen up, place it on a sheet of newspaper, and press it flat with the palm of your hand to squeeze away the water. Let the screen-backed paper mixture dry in the sun for several hours.
Ours is still drying. After it's dried we plan on trimming the edges with scissors and allowing the 4 creative minds here to decorate it.
I'll post the finished product and the kids drawing of the procedures soon....
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