Earth Kids Meeting: The Mantis Shrimp

Today, was our monthly Earth Kids meeting, and thank goodness it warmed up.  We learned about the Mantis Shrimp today, a peculiar critter.  It has a punch so strong it can break glass.  That is what stood out to me the most, and they get fairly large too.  The video below shows their beautiful colors, plus reading material can be found by clicking the highlighted link.

We usually do a craft, but this time I decided on an experiment, that actually was two experiments in one.  The one thing about experiments is sometimes they take longer than a few hours, and this was one of those. If you leave this experiment for about a week, it will go all the way to the leaves. To help learn about how plants get nutrients from their roots to their leaves, you can do this celery experiment.  You could actually use white roses or carnations, which would be really awesome, but we didn;t have any of those.  The second part of the experiment, which we have actually done before so we sent it home with the other family is to take the bottom of the celery, the root basically, dig a hole and plant it.  It will magically grow back.  This actually works for onions, potatoes and lettuce as well.  We even had broccoli and cabbage grow this way.

We got in a nice nature walk too, and lots of play time at the park.

How To Decorate Easter Eggs

Today, I need to get back into my routine of doing things. It was a great week of visiting, and relaxing, now I must work. Tomorrow we are having a play date in the park, to decorate Easter eggs, with our homeschool friends. If you are new to Easter egg decorating, the video below can help you out. I generally don't care for the older version with the vinegar, and all that, but my kids picked them this year, and then you can color on them with a magic crayon, or put on stickers. I guess it is not as messy as glitter paint, like they wanted last year. We are on Spring Break one more week, and then we are not off again until Memorial Day. I hope everyone has an awesome Sunday, and thank you to those of you who still visit, and comment, even though I was absent mostly this week.