Wild kids

Nature walk

wildkids4h — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:34:43 +0000

On this 4-H trip we ventured around the Shiloh gardens, which is a land situated close by IHOP-KC. Everyone had to find something unique. We observed and found many interesting things. Afterwords we met in a group and shared about our findings.

Dead fish became the object of various poking and squeezing experiments.

Polish pancakes

wildkids4h — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:42:34 +0000

Teah’s demonstration for the 4-H club was Polish pancakes.

Ingredients:

1-2 eggs

4 cups of milk

3 2/3 cups of flour (part of it can be whole wheat)

dash of salt

2 tbsp. of sugar

2 peeled, sliced

tart apples

2 sliced bananas

possible other fruits to add: frozen or fresh blueberries, peaches, walnuts, pecans

coconut or canola oil to fry with

Mix all the ingredients in the given order, pour on the frying pan forming pancakes, fry until light golden color, serve with: powdered sugar, maple syrup, fresh strawberries, mint leaves, chocolate syrup, whipped cream or whatever you like…

Everyone had seconds.

Action-reaction

wildkids4h — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:01:15 +0000

Action-reaction. Basically blown balloon with 2 pieces of a straw taped to it, hanged on a string between two chairs, released to travel from one chair to the other. Simple, but teaches the Newton’s Third Law of motion (For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction) effectively.

Embryology project

wildkids4h — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:16:01 +0000

Click on this picture to view a slideshow:

4-H project on Embryology at Aleya and Jolie’s house. They’ve got 12 fertile eggs and an incubator. The chicks started to hatch yesterday. Mr Poky was the first one to come out, 5 more followed today. Many of us visited their home to have a look at the newly hatched chicks.

Riddle of the Woods

wildkids4h — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:24:15 +0000

Our 4-H group visited the Burr Oaks Woods Conservation Nature Center in Blue Springs, MO. The program is called Riddle of the Woods. It teaches the kids to find clues to animals living there.

Excitement was in the air…

…from the very beginning.

Very nice presentation. Introduction to the animal’s scat and other interesting possible findings (tracks, homes etc.)

Let’s go.

Wow. First scat. You need to decide if the animal who left it here was a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore.

Close up. Of the scat.

Big turkey walked down this way.

So, girls… let’s talk about …

Is there anything else here to do? Let’s listen to the birds.

What’s that?

Fun on the way.

Real Missouri snake.

Now you have our attention.

Butterflies from around the state.

Interesting.

Tarantula exoskeleton.

No need to mention this one again.

Sophie touching the snake.

We also heard frogs, kingfisher, other birds. We saw a dead vole (almost like a mole), stepped on hundreds of moles tunnels, followed tons of deer’s and racoon’s tracks, observed termite’s habitat, listened to the moles digging their homes.

These are the animals you can meet if take a walk in the forest nearby.

Kids loved it. Surely they will appreciate scat much more from now on.