Still looking for ways to celebrate Beltane? Here’s some ideas to help you design the perfect day. With spring flowers dripping from every tree and pushing their way out of the rich, fertile earth, Beltane marks the time of year for joy, abundance, and time spent in the natural world. Use the time to work with all the the land offers you. From handmade flower crowns to red-and-white themed potlucks and even mini maypoles, I rounded up the best of Moody Moon’s Beltane ideas for your consideration. 1. Make flower crowns. A lovely Beltane activity for a coven or if you have little girls in the family. Everyone can pick their own wildflowers. Or, make an afternoon of...
As well as trying to make science fun, I also try to make most of our activities accessible to everyone by only using equipment you already have at home. I’ve bought funnels, measuring cylinders and magnets, but not much else. Science experiments at home are such a great way to get all the family involved in exciting activities and you can all learn together. I often find that one activity leads to another as the children ask more and more questions. If you’re looking for science experiments for kids, you’ve come to the right place, we’ve got 100s of easy experiments and activities for kids of all ages! Make a balloon powered car, a hovercraft, stand on paper cups without...
I’ve got a fun building bridges STEM Challenge for you to try today. Engineers have to think about many, many things when they design bridges. They have to choose a strong material that is weather resistant. The materials also need to be shaped in a way that makes them extra strong. We’ve learned about dome shapes being strong shapes using egg shells to make a bridge before too! If you tried our strong shapes challenge you’ll know that paper can be strong if folded in a certain way. In this activity you’re going to fold paper differently to make mini bridges and test how much weight each can hold. Bridge Building Materials 3 sheets of paper Tape Books or wooden...
What’s inside? Here are the questions answered in today’s reader mailbag, boiled down to summaries of five or fewer words. Click on the number to jump straight down to the question. 1. Collectibles after social distancing 2. “Buy low” makes sense now? 3. Unemployment or comparable job? 4. Food dehydrator recommendation 5. Consider booking flights now 6. Library substitute 7. Debt repayment question 8. Inexpensive home gym options 9. Do short showers save money? 10. Risk to using small insurer? 11. Child moving out 12. Side gig during social distancing One of the most interesting parts of this period of social distancing is our family’s mild turn toward homeschooling. In our area, schools are providing quite a bit of online...
Someone To Kiss My Scars: A Teen ThrillerBrooke SkipstonePublication date: October 17th 2019Genres: Thriller, Young Adult First Place Pencraft Award in Young Adult AbuseReaders’ Favorite International Contest: Silver Medal in Young Adult Thriller“Powerful. Original. Deeply felt and convincing.” — Kirkus ReviewsHunter needs to remember. Jazz needs to forget. They need each other to heal in this teen thriller of survivor love.Hunter’s past is a mystery to him, erased by a doctor at the direction of his father. But memories of the secret trauma begin to surface when Hunter sees other people’s memories–visions invading his mind with stories of abuse, teen self-mutilation, rape, and forbidden sex.His best friend Jazz has dark and disturbing memories of her own that she hides behind...
