Coming up with a craft or activity that I can relate to each of the 50 states is turning out to not be as easy as I'd expected it to be! For Hawaii it seemed like the Internet-gods only wanted me to make paper leis. While the options were plenty and very cute, I thought for sure there was something more boy-centric that we could use to make Hawaii exciting. We fell back on a little experiment with exploding volcanoes...
Obviously, Beck loved this activity. The bonus for me was ticking off the Teaching Your Children Joy activity that has been hanging me up since January! That's right-it's been that long since we got way-layed in the chapter on curiosity. I just could not find the motivation to prepare, so I never did. The closest I came was finding
Science Sparks, a great website full of child-friendly experiments, which I do look at from time, if only to remind myself of the guilt I feel in falling off the teaching bandwagon. With volcanoes now cleanly under our belts, I'm checking the box and moving on...to magic tricks...aye, aye!
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| My 2-year-old's volcanoes turned out vibrantly tropical colors, didn't they? |
And because I promised a bird picture, here you go...the Hawaiian Goose, an extraordinarily un-tropical looking bird...
