shannikki1

Hi, I'm talking about stuff! I liked the long list of ideas that were
at the end of Parenting a Free Child: an Unschooled Life. We have a ton
of those things, but I'm looking for more! My son is 7 and right now he
is interested in building with anything(cardboard/popsicle
sticks/string), experiments, music...everything really. So, what are
all of you stocking your homes with? Thanks in advance :)

jane doe

--- shannikki1 <shannikki1@...> wrote:
> is interested in building with
> anything(cardboard/popsicle
> sticks/string),

My son (14) played with it all when he was little but
mostly loved making his K'nex, Legos, string, sticks,
rubber bands, etc etc work together. Now we have a
pumpkin chunking machine is our driveway. We had two
but one turned back into its parts just this morning.
Show him this site:
http://www.punkinchunkin.com/main.htm
and let his imagination run wild. All of our machines
have been made of "finds". Check Craigslist or
Freecycle. They are our favorite source for ideas and
stuff. We even have a sailboat and trailer we got for
free...he said he wanted to learn to sail...
ELISA-- whose goin' chunkin for Thanksgiving

We have a collective responsibility to the least of us-Phil Ramone

We can do no great things; only small things with great love- Mother Teresa


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Toilet paper tubes (plus paper towel tubes, wrapping paper tubes), pool
noodles, PVC pipe, duct tape (the latter 3 items can be built into
'boppers' - good for sword battles without damage), huge boxes of craft
sticks, yarn, string, k'nex, legos, sketchpads, pens/markers (DS has
never liked crayons - too lacking in fine detailing ability, he's a very
linear drawing type person, lots of mazes, and buildings, and monsters
in detail but not colored in), books, DVDs (Netflix), magazines,,
assorted cardboard boxes (whole and flat) - cereal boxes are great for
making things like gameboards, just thick enough to be sturdy but light
enough to cut easily into little "markers" and such. Then there's baking
powder, vinegar, and other kitchen stuff (put a raw egg in a container
of white vinegar and let it sit overnight - the shell dissolves but the
inner membrane is intact and it sucks in fluid and swells up (osmotic
action if you need 'schoolese' stuff to log). Carefully drain the
vinegar and replace with white corn syrup and let sit again. It shrinks
down to golfball size (reverse osmosis as the fluid is sucked out
through the membrane).

There's other stuff too but that's a short list... (lol)

Deb

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put a raw egg in a container
of white vinegar and let it sit overnight - the shell dissolves but the
inner membrane is intact and it sucks in fluid and swells up (osmotic
action if you need 'schoolese' stuff to log). Carefully drain the
vinegar and replace with white corn syrup and let sit again. It shrinks
down to golfball size (reverse osmosis as the fluid is sucked out
through the membrane).

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I've never tried the corn syrup part---we'll have to do that. (Does it
have to be 'vinegarized' first? I guess so.)

But too after the vinegar bath, it's kind of rubbery and bouncy. Really
cool---a bouncy egg!

ANd you can also soak chicken bones (and other small bones) in
vinegar---they'll turn "rubbery" too. In high school, I soaked the
skeleton of the frog I dissected in vinegar and had a "rubber" frog
skeleton---really snazzy! <G> Freaks aunts out! <bwg>


~Kelly

Kelly Lovejoy
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Debra Rossing

LOL we get the bendable chicken bones when we make soup - add some cider
vinegar or other favorite vinegar to the water when boiling down a
poultry carcass for stock. Not only adds some nutrients (vitamin C in
the vinegar, leaches calcium from the bones into the stock) but then the
bones come out bendable.

Deb

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MrsStranahan

I made tortilla soup this weekend. I made the chicken stock and added a cut
lime to the simmering pot. I'd never done that before ..

While I was taking the meat off the bones I noticed the ribcage looked like
and felt like cartridge and not bone. All the other bones looked normal. Do
you think this happened because of the lime juice?

Lauren

On Nov 20, 2007 6:46 AM, Debra Rossing <debra.rossing@...> wrote:

> LOL we get the bendable chicken bones when we make soup - add some cider
> vinegar or other favorite vinegar to the water when boiling down a
> poultry carcass for stock. Not only adds some nutrients (vitamin C in
> the vinegar, leaches calcium from the bones into the stock) but then the
> bones come out bendable.
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LOL we get the bendable chicken bones when we make soup - add some cider
vinegar or other favorite vinegar to the water when boiling down a
poultry carcass for stock. Not only adds some nutrients (vitamin C in
the vinegar, leaches calcium from the bones into the stock) but then the
bones come out bendable.

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Hmmm.

Does it alter the taste?

I just boiled down a turkey carcass for soup. I guess I'll have another
on Friday. <g> How much vinegar do you use?


~Kelly

Kelly Lovejoy
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--- In [email protected], kbcdlovejo@... wrote:

> Does it alter the taste?
Depends on what kind and how much vinegar you use. Plain white vinegar
(my least favorite) just a tablespoon to a large pot of water is not
really noticeable but does have the benefits (and the bendable bones).
A good 'glug' of cider vinegar into a large pot adds a bit of savory
to the stock but not enough to be very noticeable once you use it -
leaves people going "What in the world was in that? It was really good
but I can't quite identify all the ingredients". If you really -want-
to taste it no questions asked, a nice dash of good balsamic vinegar
will stay with the stock and flavor whatever you use it in (and darken
it somewhat too). So, it really depends on how you intend to use the
stock and your own personal taste buds and those of your intended
victims..uh..guests :-)

--Deb

guideforthree

--- In [email protected], "shannikki1" <shannikki1@...>
wrote:
So, what are all of you stocking your homes with? Thanks in advance :)

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Steven Caney's *Ultimate Building Book* is crammed full of ideas for
building material. Anything from cake and icing to noodles with
rubberbands and paperclips.

Right now my boys are having a great time with twine and the wild
bamboo in our back yard. However, this requires the use of a hacksaw.

Tina

nicole durbin

Steven Caney's *Ultimate Building Book* is crammed full of ideas for
building material. Anything from cake and icing to noodles with
rubberbands and paperclips.
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Thanks for recommending this book! I found it on Amazon for a great deal, we will definately be getting this one!!! Thanks again




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