By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use. This post may contain affiliate links. Read our disclosure policy. Follow us on Instagram for more fun ideas for kids! Monster balloons are a fun Halloween science experiment for kids using just baking soda and vinegar! It’s that time of year again when the leaves are changing, the air is getting colder, and monsters are starting to appear! This Halloween, try some fun and spooky science experiments with your kids. They’re sure to have a blast, and who knows, they might even learn something! In this post, we’ll show you how to create a monster balloon using vinegar and baking soda. You will love seeing the reaction between these two ingredients. Plus, your...
A motorist drives through the fall leaves near Sherwood Hills in Sardine Canyon on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017.Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News There is no doubt that fall is a particularly loved season. The changes in scenery, and cooler weather, bring a sense of newness to our lives and families. Fall invites us to reset, try something new or experience something different. “As young kids, we learned that the fall is filled with new people, places and opportunities. It’s when we got all of our new school supplies and we’re excited to dive into new activities. That association stays with us into adulthood,” says Ronit Levy, the director of Bucks County Anxiety Center. “There is a feeling of excitement and promise...
For centuries, man has always been intrigued by what lies beyond the mortal realms. Such is the fascination with the afterlife that it has influenced folklore and even urban legends. And nothing does it better than vampire tales. Making their way from the pages of books to the big screen, here are some of the best vampire movies that viewers have loved. The vampire genre has added an extra dimension to horror movies such that throughout the history of cinema, vampire lore has made a definitive mark for itself. Legend has it that vampires are nocturnal eternal creatures who hunt for victims to satiate their thirst for blood from dusk till dawn and cannot withstand the sun. Every vampire movie...
Since the day my daughter had her first bite of solid food, I’ve been fretting over her diet. I mashed organic peas, pureed heritage tomatoes, and froze nutritious soups. When she got older, I made sure she finished her broccoli and that sugar wasn’t the only carbohydrate in her meals. I might have been slightly obsessive, I admit, but I wanted to make sure she grew up healthy and strong. In the meantime I was writing stories on health and nutrition and digging through hundreds of research papers a year. And out of this research a new story began emerging, whether I liked it or not—that while I fixated on organic produce and whole grains, I was missing another vital...
I love video games. I suppose I always have. Growing up in the early years of economic liberalisation in India, you took your first steps into the world of gaming on bootlegged consoles, manufactured by local companies that had cropped up all over the country to meet the demands of a large population with growing purchasing power and aspirations to live the life their relatives “abroad” and the stars of their movies did, all the while the companies that actually manufactured those consoles scrambled to set up shop in the nation. My earliest memory of gaming is playing Contra and Super Mario on one of these bootlegged “NES,” plugging in those “99999 in 1” game cartridges and setting up the...
