It’s good to have community. Yes, really, it’s necessary, especially when you are a kid. We have found a wonderful homeschooling group and so far, we have met some very nice families. Just a few days after finally making that connection, we found out that there would be a science fair so off we went in every direction of this house to work on something for each of them to present.
I’m not really the kind of momma that gets too involved in these kinds of things, (unless its a costume contest where the other parents will be making costumes and a childs work would not stand a chance, then it’s on!) generally, I will allow them to win or fail on their own merits.
They came up with some very cool projects. Studies on capillary action, chemical reactions and gases created, photosynthesis and even some homemade chokeberry ink. All things that we all now know very intimately. Science is fun like that. Not the kind only in books but the kind that you go out and find for yourself.
The chokeberry ink may be my fave, of course and I am thinking of ways to use that resource we now have growing everywhere. It is toxic to eat but handled carefully is a wonderful dye. I think there will be some yarn and fabric dyeing in our very near future.
Well it will be very interesting for childrens to learn and adopt many new thing about the science.
What you call chokeberry, we call pokeberry in my neck of the woods. I have used it for a dye and it was wonderful. I used vinegar for my mordant which was a little stinky but then the dye was all natural and safe. I really loved the color and I dyed white as well as a grey/heather/brown yarn. The white turned out very bright fuschia like and the heather/grey/brown a more maroon.
thank you Kate!! I was thinking vinegar would be good too since that's all I have to use as a mordant. The last time I used salt, it stiffened the fibers.