Spring Break Busy

ISn't spring break suppoesed to be relaxing? Well, it is, but I decided to catch up on some school work. It makes going back to school or work easier if you finish your work now and you won't have to stress over it. I am working on my research project on stem cells. I finished a brochure and am finishing up a tri fold board. Keep yourself busy. Hang out with friends, do something productive, enjoy your time off. :)

Getting Into Gamenight!

I believe this problem arises quite a bit in families, so I will address it. Spending time together. With parents working, kids being with their friends and going to school, I fond it tough to manage a bond. This idea will hopefully change that all. Game night! And I know you're probably thinking, "Gmaenight? I have no time for game night!" and in some cases that true. But I bet you can find at least an hour or a thirty minutes to get down and just play.

Once you've put aside a time for game night,"everyone has to play!:)" you need to find out what to do. Some popular ideas are board games, charades, video games, etc. But, I would keep in mind, to keep everyone interested, have a different person pick the activity each time. I'd also start off with something light like charades, just to get used to it. After deciding what to do, decide where to do it. A clean, room with lots of area and a good feel to it would be ideal, but it is up to you. Oh, and a little tip about when to do game night might be on a Sunday or Saturday night because not many people work on those days and kids are home from school. Anyways, after all of those steps, you are set for family game night. Add it to your schedule and await it each week.

Dried Up Paint

             Paint is one of my most favorite things in the world. There are endless possibilities when it comes to using it, and there are endless amounts of forms of it. It is beauty that is waiting to make its way onto display. Well, I recently have been fooling around with paint, (I've made quite a large mess) and fell in love with a certain form of paint. Dried up paint. Not like when you paint a picture and it dries, but when you pour a thick dot or bulge or random shape of paint onto a surface and wait for it to dry. Once it dries, it is strechy, and feel really cool. I do this mostly on tin foil, because if you use paper, the paint will make the paper soggy and it might break. Anyways, I highly recommend doing this beacause it is fun, and you can make a lot of stuff out i=of the dried up paint. All you need is tin foil and paint. just put a piece of tin foil flat in front of you, and pour a big glob or small glob onto it. Maybe make a design, but you need good old globby paint, otherwise it will make it seem like a regular picture. Van Gogh used this technique when he painted so that his paintings would have texture. Anyways, moving on. You should wait one to three nights for the [aint to dry depending on how much paint you use. You will know when it dries because it looks dry, but every few hours or so, you might want to try lightly touching the paint with a pencil to check. Once it is dry, you can keep it on the tin foil, or peel it off. But it is so much fun to play with!

Late April Fools

One word, prank. The thing everyone does on a historical day, April 1st. April Fools Day! This year, I pranked my dad, and my class and I pranked two teachers. Let me tell you about the teachers first. We did the same thing to both of them, but it was successful. We just walked into the center of their classrooms, and started singing our national anthem. The music teacher was so happy and proud of us, but our teacher got rid of our recess. April Fools! She didn't really, but she pretended to. Now about the prank on my dad.

   Ever see those sink with the extension cord? In the picture, it is that little black nozzle next to the sink's faucet. Well, when you push a button on that, and turn the sink on, it sprays so you can use it to wash dishes better. I put a rubber band around the button so it was pressed, and my dad was the first victim. He turned on the sink and it sprayed him and the kitchen. No one, got hurt, but some got wet. Well, those are just my pranks, there are a couple I want to tell you about, that my genius friends pulled off. Okay, one of my friends threw toilet paper all over her brother, her sister's, and her parents bedrooms. Next, one whole class, all the kids wore fake casts, they had the gauze and everything! I found out it was a prank the minute one kid just slipped of his cast and started to write with his hand. Lastly, this prank, my teacher pulled. Okay, this will be slightly confusing, so I'll call my teacher, teacher A and the victim teacher, teacher B. So teacher B went to go get a water bottle and asked teacher A to watch her class. Teacher A took the kids in the class and hid them in the library, and came back to our class. A few minutes later, teacher B came into our room, looking as flustered as ever, and started blabbering about her class. Where were they? What did you do to them? What am I going to do? Teacher A maintained a straight face, and fooled teacher B, teacher B was looking all over, and she eventually found them in the library. Teacher A made a smart, yet classic move, and blamed another teacher and ran away. :) That's our wonderful teacher!:) Pulling pranks is the best way for students and teachers to bond. Well, that is all, Happy late April Fools Day!