Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays because it revolves around family, good food, and an attitude of gratitude.
Apples 4 Teachers houses a collection of seventeen Thanksgiving poems, some of them modern, others from the nineteenth century.
"Five little turkeys standing at the door, one waddled off, and then there were four." For lower elementary grades and preschoolers, DLTK has songs, rhymes and printable Thanksgiving crafts.
Joanna Fuchs is a talented greeting card poet, and her Thanksgiving poems are sure to please.
For high school, college, and adult students of poetry, Poets.org introduces seven iconic Thanksgiving poems from poets as varied as Langston Hughes and John Greenleaf Whittier.
Jean Warren presents a page of traditional preschool Thanksgiving rhymes mixed in with her own original creations.
Whether you call it slime, flubber, oobleck, goo, goop, gak, gunk, ooze, putty, or play dough, we are talking about gooey, homemade polymers that can provide both hours of fun and an introduction to chemistry.
Despite the title, I don't think we're talking crafts for babies here, but rather toddlers and preschoolers.
Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D. is About.com's chemistry guide. But you don't need a Ph.D. to follow her recipes for a bouncing polymer ball, electroactive slime, fake snot (eww!), Metamucil flubber, or glow-in-the-dark slime.
Non-Newtonian fluids sometimes behave like liquids and sometimes like solids, thereby defying easy categorization.
Normally I visit Cooks.com for dinner recipes, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that they also house dozens of recipes for slime, silly putty, goop, and play dough.
The Slime we made is just a demonstration of how certain polymers are effected by other chemicals, such as 'cross-linkers' .
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