October is the Best! Part I

 Halloween.
Halloween.  It's the best holiday around.  
Therefore, around here, it's a season, rather than just one day!
Bleaching t-shirts in the sun, paper boats and splashing in the rain.
The chemistry of bouncy balls, and gold & silver pennies
A witches's tea...
 Rollerblades on the go. 
And murder mystery show!

Chemistry Class mini lab:  Making Golden Pennies (a look at the copper cycle)

vinegar to clean the pennies


Boiling in Zinc Chloride + metallic zinc to coat pennies in zinc.
This yields "silver" pennies.

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Fun hang-out with a friend.

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Skating date with Erik!

Goofing around!

Contemplating Halloween with candy spider molds.

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Rain play!

Put on your boots!

Bring out your umbrellas.

Your boats!

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Halloween Vibes.

3-D print.

A flapping fairy wing kit.
She had a fun time constructing!

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Off to the theatre!

Pioneer Theatre's production:

Agatha Christie's

Murder on the Orient Express

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Halloweenie kinda coffee date!

Trying on an outfit for an upcoming Halloween Party

Out to Turkish coffee.

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More 3-D printing fun

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With Miss a Metalsmithing class!

Cutting silver metal sheeting

Fun with fire!

Acetylene torch.

Miss' work.

I did this one.

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Halloweenie thoughts!
Miss sewed this Halloween costume for sister's stuffie.

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Outing on the town.

Rollerblading time!!!

Post blading lunch at local China town market

And dropped by the grocery store for a few pumpkins!

(The trunk was full of groceries and rollerblade gear.)

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Solar bleached shirts!

In anticipation of the upcoming annular solar eclipse passing through Utah, we made solar bleach shirts!

spraying with bleach

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Kohakatu by Miss!

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They stole my camera while we were goofing around.

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Making palmiers!

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A tie-dye party with friends!

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Falling asleep at the books.

Homework is rather a snore for this one.

But one has a real appreciation for gelatinous predators!

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A second day of tie-dye.

Miss was inspired.

One of her tie-dye pieces.

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Completed Halloween costume for sister's stuffie!

A jellyfish.

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More Chemistry mini-labs.

Exploring polymers, making bouncy balls.

This one was unsuccessful, the polymers ended up being crumbly.

This one yield a successful bouncy ball.

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Tie-dye colors.

Kohakatu candy colors.

Googly-eye feet.

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Badger Home Evening:

A Witche's Tea!

Deviled eggs.

Cucumber sandwiches.

More palmiers!

Sui-gao

(goyza)

The tea service!

Pumpkin deviled-eggs.

Shall I pour?

There were snacks, jasmine tea, & reading!

Miss read the Telltale Heart aloud.

Then for real funnies, she read aloud Fancy Nancy Halloween - LOL.

Miss 2 read the Legend of Sleepy Hallow aloud.

And I read the Red Death aloud.

This made the tea!

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Tie-dye!

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Two sisters went a picking in the backyard.

These are the best tasting crab apples possible.