Sharpen Your Superpower of Observation

A few months back, I was watering and rearranging some plants, when I accidentally knocked off a few begonia flowers. The flowers were beautiful, and I couldn’t stand to sweep them off the deck. Instead, I brought them into the kitchen to put them in a small vase. That’s when I noticed it. The flowers …

3 Reasons You Need a Drop Biscuit Recipe

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 …

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 …

Let’s Have a Seed Hunt

Have you ever stopped to think how many seeds you run across every day? Seeds are everywhere in our daily lives. Seeds show up in every meal we cook. There are seeds to observe during each walk in our neighborhood. Seeds sometimes look very different from one another. The different sizes of seeds can be …

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 …

Start Your Own Baby Succulent Plants

What’s better than a succulent plant? First of all, having five succulent plants is better. Secondly, we can all agree having ten cute baby succulent plants to watch grow up is even better. Now that we’re all on the same page, let’s turn our single succulent plant into many baby plants! Easy Succulents to Propagate: …

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 …

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 …