Birkat Chaverim
We love sock projects and this fruity use for socks is an easy one. Recently a friend posted on facebook about a business that made "avocado socks". That is, socks made out of shetland wool in order to ripen avocados. I thought that was a cute idea but also thought, lets try that ourselves! How this Works Apparently, avocados release the gas eth ...
I thought I would share the dreidel science experiments we started doing. My kids were home sick the other day. For entertainment, I bought my son a set of tops that tend to be popular around here before Hanukkah. You know the ones that connect to a sort of release mechanism and you press the button and then they spin? Usually with loud annoying mus ...
We like to do science experiments related to holidays and such. Here's a Shabbat silver experiment using simple electroplating. This is a basic chemistry experiment we do every once and a while for Shabbat (and holiday) preparations. Usually we do it when we notice that the silver we use every week for saying Kiddush and lighting the Sabbath candles do ...
Its almost Rosh Hashana which mean Yom Kippur and Sukkot are around the corner and therefore Tal season is finishing up. That is, soon we'll be switching from the Tal/dew prayer request to the Geshem/rain prayer in the Shemonah Esreh prayer.) I wanted to share an idea and activities that came out of something that happened on Pesach/Passover. Someone ...
You may or may not know that through September the Israeli electric company is having a "contest" to get people to use less electricity. The basic idea is that people will get a discount on reduced usage between 10-30%. Why the 30% cutoff? Probably to make sure people are actually still in the apartment and using electricity in a regular way. We are ...
I like this one as its yet another use for socks. It was largely an experiment that horribly failed with basil but is doing amazingly with mustard seeds. Basically cut a used bottle in half and turn the upper half upsidedown inside the lower half. stick an unwanted sock through the bottle neck into the lower bottle half. Add rocks and water as well a ...
WARNING: This post is likely to cause general head itchyness. Sorry! Please read anyway. My daughter's gan is up to the Hebrew letter Kaf this week. I had suggested that it might be a great time to talk with them about KINIM, or Lice. My thought was: 1. Lice tend to be a problem in settings with lots of children 2. Children are naturally curious abo ...
These came about by accident but were fun and take about five minutes. 1. Honey paste After reading that honey and cinnamon paste are good for coughing and laryngitis, we made a simple paste completely by experimenting on quantities. Then we tasted it. Its sort of like a mild hot tamale candy and is also good on bread and as a tea. I can't tell yo ...