Drop biscuits, they’re the easiest, quickest baked bread I’ve ever made. If you don’t have a favorite drop biscuit recipe yet, you’re about to find out why you need one. 1. Quick to Make Drop biscuit recipes are for people who don’t enjoy spending a lot of time in the kitchen, but love freshly baked …
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Make a Mandala Breakfast
I’m a breakfast lover. Oh! You are too? Then, you’re in the right place. Are you tired of the same old cold cereal? Maybe you’d like a faster breakfast option to prepare than pancakes or French toast. Or maybe you want to keep kids busy for a while as you sip your coffee. The cure-all …
Mulberry Topping Sauce Recipe
This quick, easy recipe is a simple way to use up mulberries from a generous mulberry tree in your yard. In fewer than 30 minutes, you can have mulberry topping sauce! It’s been a scorcher these past few days, so we used our topping sauce on ice cream. This sauce can also be used on …
How to Make a Flower Chain
Ice cream is the best! You know what else is the best? Lazing around on a nice summer day and doing whatever you want to do. Loafing, lazing and putzing can bring great joy to the inner child in all of us. Don’t forget to laze. A proper putzing is done without a smart phone …
Plant a Wee Garden with a Theme
When I was a kid I loved reading Choose Your Own Adventure books. I wedged my fingers between multiple pages so I could go back and see if I could have made it out alive or with a bag of treasure, if only I made a better choice earlier. Planting itty bitty plants in a …
Turn Aluminum Foil into a Polished Cube
I’ll bet you never did anything as a kid that was a complete waste of time, but was satisfying and fun. Let’s face it! One of the perks of being a kid is putting hours and hours into a focused activity that may have no practical purpose. Maybe you and your friends dug a hole …
Dyeing Eggs with Natural Plant-based Dyes
Ever since I dyed wool yarn with purple carrots from my garden last fall, I thought it’d be fun to dye other things with plants. Think of anything that stained your clothes in the past; it might be a good candidate to dye eggs. I held a vote on my Facebook page – Tamawi, and …
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Grow a Resurrection Plant
This desert plant has an amazing way of coping when there’s no access to water. The entire plant curls up into a dried ball of leaves for as long as it takes – even years – until water is available to bring it back to life! The resurrection plant I reanimated is also known as …
Make Oobleck: A Non-Newtonian Fluid
Oobleck! It’s a funny name for an odd fluid that defies general liquids’ properties, which earns it the category of non-Newtonian behavior. The defining characteristic of oobleck is that its viscosity changes depending on shear rate, meaning the fluidity changes depending on how much pressure is put on the liquid. If little pressure is put …
How to Reveal a Plant’s Vascular System
Are you looking for a WOW-factor experiment? Then this is the one! For maximum impact, I suggest the next-level option with the highlighter and black light. Plants are more complicated than they appear on the surface. But did you know you can reveal the framework of plant’s physiology in a simple experiment at home? What …