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Jelly Marbles – Clear Spheres – Home Decor – Live Plants

Mamacita says:  Those green marbles aren’t really marbles at all; they’re jelly marbles.  Clear spheres.  You’re looking at a clear glass vase that is about a foot tall.  I put a pinch of water jelly crystals in it, and added water colored with green food coloring.  As you can see, that tiny pinch of jelly [...]

Let Your Kids Make Their Own Trees!

Mamacita says: This was too good NOT to share!  What a fantastic activity for kids at any time, but especially during holiday season!

Just think of all the lessons we can sneak in, with this activity! Holidays, following directions, scissor usage, where paper comes from, recycling. . . . I’m SO using [...]

Everybody Needs A Hero

Teaching at any level requires an energy level many people do not have. Teachers don’t even have it at the end of many long days. People who don’t understand this like to mention vacation days and summers off, usually with “that look” on their faces. They don’t understand. When teachers get [...]

Happy Hallowe’en. Eat Up. Sing Along. Read Up. Jerk Down. Smash. Freeze. Blow Up. Enjoy.

Mamacita says:
Of course, you all probably already know that if you mix candy corn and salted peanuts together in a big bowl, you’ve got handfuls of PayDay bar goodness.
Peanuts are a meat substitute, and candy corn is pretty much fat-free (paraffin never hurt anybody) so really, a big bowl of candy corn and peanuts is [...]

BlogIndiana, WordCamp, BlogHer, BlogWorldExpo, and Pickles

Mamacita says:   In a few days, I’ll be off to Blog Indiana – which you don’t have to be from Indiana to attend, why don’t all of you sign up, too?
I’m hooked now on writing conferences.  Social media get-togethers have become my crack cocaine.  No longer do I have to cook my meth in [...]

BlogHer Is Officially Over, Except That It’s Never Really Over

Mamacita says:  The day after Christmas BlogHer is always hard for me. A full year of intense anticipation, building up to an amazing flash of fun, love, learning, friends, and hearty partying educational experiences of many descriptions, and then BLAH, home again. I mean, I love to be home, [...]

Quotation Saturday: Science

Better late than never. . . .
Mamacita says:  Anyone of any age who “hates science” never had a good science teacher.  With a good science teacher, a child will explode with enthusiasm the minute he/she runs into the house, and will talk about what he/she saw and learned all through dinner.  A good science teacher [...]

Science in the Rockies

Mamacita says:  I’m in Colorado at Steve Spangler’s Science in the Rockies
It hasn’t even officially begun yet, but already I’m having an AWESOME TIME!  Steve and his staff are absolutely wonderful, and I know that the actual seminar will be fun, fun, FUN – not to mention enlightening.  I’m serious; everyone I’ve met has been [...]

Ten Things Tuesday

Mamacita says:
1. By the time most of you read this, I’ll be in Colorado at Science in the Rockies, having a fantastic time, learning incredible things, meeting amazing people,  and collecting unbelievable swag.  There are a lot of people in Colorado whom I love dearly;  CALL ME!
2.  My feet are killing me.
3.  It’s [...]

Thises and Thats

Mamacita says:  I’ve been throwing dirty laundry down the stairs all day and now we can’t open the garage door.  I’d go downstairs to start a load but I can’t get to the bottom of the stairs.  Someone will have to go outside and come in through the garage, open the door really hard, and [...]