Ideas For Home
My mom and I get together every year and make a ton of sweet bread. This year we went a little over board because she got a giant banana box overflowing with rotten bananas for just $2 from her nearby produce stand. So we baked 145 loaves which we are happily delivering to friends, family, neighbors and co-workers. What a treat!
 
Fearless Family Home House Tour
Name: Cyndi Coon
Location: Tempe, Arizona
Size: 1,800 square feet
Years lived in: 13 years; owned
Cyndi’s home, a ranch-style house built in 1958, is a stunning ode to all things found, reclaimed, and vintage. It’s a home you can stare at for hours: peering into glass-fronted cases, admiring collections of ceramics, and wondering at the story behind each object. It’s about as far away from childproofed as you can get. Nevertheless, it’s home to two girls both under the age of eight.
Inspired by a couple of our favorite books about balloons including Balloon Farm and You Can’t Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum we decided it was only fitting to dedicate some summer camp time to exploring balloons.
We had the hopes of creating a homemade hot air balloon but after visiting three different locations and being told there was no helium available due to a recent mine closure we knew we needed to talk about balloons even more! We had a lot of fun experimenting with simple latex balloons.
We played balloon games, watched movies about balloons including UP and Balloon Farm and checked out more books about balloons from the library. We drew a lot of pictures of balloons, hot air balloons, run-a-way balloons and live balloons with faces and we also ate balloon inspired meals. We conducted experiments with heat, fire, baking soda and lemons. We tested our our human produced electricity and we made water balloons for an outdoor water balloon fight. Here are some highlights of the balloon experimental fun we had.
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Electricity created by static from our hair.
Baking soda and lemon juice really do create a gas that blows up a balloon!
If you fill the bottom of a balloon up with a 1/4 cup of water it actually won’t pop when placed over a flame!
An empty soda bottle placed in a pan of boiling water really will blow up a balloon the is stretched over the top of the bottle!
Water balloons ready for a battle!
Cool Summer water balloon fight!
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We played science games, checked out science movies and books from the library. We drew a lot of mad scientist pictures and we also ate several science inspired meals. Here are some highlights of the science fun we had.
We worked on the science of baking by making homemade Cake Pops.
We experiments with borax, corn starch, corn flour and liquid soap by making homemade Goo, slime and quick sand.
We tested our tasted buds by creating our own fizzy soda pop – truly not very tasty but it was a fun experiment! We create soda in the flavors of lime, cinnamon, vanilla and cherry.
