Did UFO Space Aliens visit my house the other day?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (238349)
Walnut Creek, California
May 16, 2021 11:01am CST
This...object..appeared on Kitty's outside bed near my front door the other day. Could it be some alien space craft?
Actually, I think it's a raft designed by Astik (perhaps with his daddy's help). I brought one of my rafts to the pool the other day when I was playing "sink or float" with Astik (6) and Aditi (3).
After that, I gave Astik some popsicle sticks and some wine corks, and lent him my wood glue, so he could design his own raft. I told him that the wood glue was water-soluble and wouldn't hold up unless I "reinforced" the raft later with crazy glue.
Yesterday I did just that, but I turned it into yet another experiment. I used hard core Gorilla glue on "top" of the raft, and indoor/outdoor wood glue on the "bottom." We'll see which one holds up better.
They don't know it, but I'm teaching them about scientific inquiry and hypothesis-testing. Buwaahaahaa! I am evil.
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@BearArtistLady (6029)
• United States
16 May 21
It's wonderful because you are not only teaching them scientific inquiry and hypothesis-testing but recycling and crafting too. All too often those two items are forgotten or shoved to the background by people. Instead of thinking outside the box, say when they need a funnel for something, they race to the store and buy one. They don't look at an empty plastic bottle as a possible funnel if you simply cut the bottom off and remove the lid.
Or how about a wonderful cleaner? People buy high priced cleaners for scrubbing around the toilet or sink when baking soda would work just as well. A quarter cup with a half cup of vinegar makes a great toilet bowl cleaner.
Keep encouraging them to think outside the box and to craft and do scientific inquiry and hypothesis testing. We may have a new generation of inventors.
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@wolfgirl569 (135966)
• Marion, Ohio
17 May 21
You truly are evil. It looks like a good raft
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@RasmaSandra (98106)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
17 May 21
That is a good way to keep active minds active and teach them when they don't realize it, What that thing is, is beyond me, It just might be a creation made just for you,
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@lovebuglena (52207)
• Staten Island, New York
18 May 21
What is this thing for exactly?
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@FourWalls (86829)
• United States
17 May 21
No you aren’t evil. Evil would be giving them the raft and telling them to sail to Alaska on it.
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@LindaOHio (222726)
• United States
17 May 21
It's too bad we don't have someone like you in every daycare and classroom. Have a good week.
