A little girl with a super powered dream! When I took my daughter on her first trip to the comic book store, she was blown away. As soon as she walked into Samurai Comics, her eyes grew as wide as saucers, as she scanned the walls and corridors filled with comic books! Those first steps brought her face to face with with a world of wonders, imagination, excitement, and adventure!Read More →
This giveaway has been CLOSED! Please check out the stellar space clothes of Baby Teith, and the launching of their kickstarter, featuring astronaut skirts and dragon scale clothes! Review: My friend Tiffe Fermaint is an award winning runway fashion designer, and she makes the COOLEST clothes ever for kids! She and her husband Keith Walker started their company Baby Teith after their daughter was born, when she was trying to find awesome baby clothes, but was having trouble finding things that fit their tastes. So, Tiffe decided to start making them herself! And what are the tastes she couldn’t find clothing to fit for?Read More →
Recently, my husband signed me up for a monthly snack box subscription from Japan. Every box contained strange and wonderful delights from shrimp flavored snack chips to cotton candy with pop rocks! One of the most interesting snacks was this Create-Your-Own dolphin candy, which came with ocean character molds, a scenic ocean background, and all of the ingredients and tools we would need to put it together! Essentially, we were given chemistry in a box, and our result would be candy!Read More →
I just bought a new microscope, and like anyone with a new instrument of science, I couldn’t wait to take it for a test run! After examining hair, puddles, and red blood cells, I was left wondering what else I could look at. My daughter had a brilliant suggestion – why not look at some of my makeup under the microscope? I could combine two of my favorite things – makeup and science, and check out what my new microscope could do!
While acids and bases have many uses in the world, it may not always be evident that they’re there. For example, you could pull just about any liquid out of your kitchen cabinet, but would you know if it was and acid or a base, simply by looking at it? One way to tell whether something has acidic or alkaline properties is by using an indicator. This is something that can change color when in the presence of an acid or a base, and it can let you know this property of the material you’re testing!
The heart is an incredible machine. Working tirelessly day and night, it pushes our blood throughout our entire body, even working against gravity to get our body the nutrition it needs to sustain itself! The heart is made up of a lot of muscles, tissues, and nerve cells that all work together to keep our blood pumping through our bodies. In this post, we’ll learn about all of the components of the heart, and built our own anatomical model to show off what we’ve learned!