Once Upon a Time…When They Were New

Looking for a pet that doesn’t need to be fed, groomed or have its poop scooped? Try a robopet!
Meet Pleo
Pleo looks like a one-week-old Camarasaurus, a dinosaur from the Jurassic period, but that’s where the resemblance ends. Unlike the real Camarasaurus, Pleo uses 38 sensors to detect light, motion, touch and sound. It has two [...]

Harry Potter Craft

If you want to have a map like Harry’s Maurader’s Map, try using invisible ink! (Unfortunately, once you make this ink visible, it won’t disappear again). But it is still fun to watch the ink become visible the first time around.
What you’ll need: baking soda, water, q-tips, paper and a heat source (a lamp’s lightbulb [...]

Recycle Art

What do you do with the cap from your soda bottle, milk jug or juice carton? Don’t just throw them away – make an art project!

Take a look at bottle cap art in action.

Are you inspired? Ready to start collecting cast offs and make some art? Want more [...]

Origami

One of  my  favorite thngs  about You Tube is that I  can  learn to  do  something new , by  watching a video.  For some thing like Origami, it  is  great because I  can  pause  the video whenever  I  get  behind. I  learn  better when I  watch things.  At  Centerville, we recently had Christie of Christie’s [...]

Creative Answers

There was a man sitting on a rock.  He would periodically arise and shout proudly seemingly meaningless large numbers and quietly sit back down on his rock. “1,286,258…………10,459……251,637….. and so on”.  Without being able to stand it any longer, I mustered up the courage to ask this strange man what he was doing.  What do [...]

Funniest books you have ever read?

What is one of the funniest books you have ever read? 
For me, one of them is Junie B. Jones Loves Handsome Warren by Barbara Park.  When I read that book I laughed and laughed and laughed.  I read it out loud to my friend Juli over breakfast, and we liked it so much we kept on reading and [...]

Whoopee Cushion

A whoopee cushion, also known as a poo-poo cushion or a Razzberry Cushion, is a practical joke device that produces a noise resembling a raspberry or human flatulence. It a piece of rubber stuck together with a small opening with a flap at one edge. To use the whoopee cushion, you must inflate the cushion [...]

The Postcard by Tony Abbott

Thirteen year old Jason is not looking forward to a summer of helping his alcoholic father clean up an old house in Florida where his grandmother lived before her death.
He is being forced to leave his home in Boston and his best friend for this?
Then, one evening while cleaning out junk in the old house, [...]

Be Creative – and Garden!

Flowers and plants add so much to our lives. Splashes of color and delicious scents are wonderful, but just part of the story. Plants cleanse the air and soil, and also provide tasty food! Working in the garden is good exercise, and not only physical exercise. Planning a garden involves math skills – what will [...]

Once Upon a Time…When They Were New

“When Mark Twain wrote that accident is the”greatest of all inventors,” he was acknowledging that many brilliant ideas result from unforeseen events. Although many inventions result from years of dedicated experiments or follow decades of painstaking scientific research, many ideas for inventions arrive in the world by chance.
During World War II, an American electrical engineer, [...]