Welcome to David's Grab Bag Page. My name is David. I am 8 years old. I have just finished the second grade and it is now SUMMER VACATION!!!!! This issue of my page is about summer stuff: butterflies, flowers and maybe a few bugs. And of course there are riddles. Next time it will be different. Let me know if you like my page. Send me e-mail with your comments and ideas. Have fun!!!
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This riddle is from Neal: THANKS Neal!! This riddle is from Paige from Mount Pleasant, SC: THANKS Paige!! And this riddle was sent to me by Brittany Esquivel from Wake Forest, NC. THANKS, Brittany!
And this riddle is from me: My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
This is a great book about a boy who leaves his family and the city behind to live in the woods. He has no house, not even a tent. Plus he has to do everything with the supplies that the woods have to offer! His falcon (which he captures and trains as a chick) is one of the boy's main tools for catching food and her name is Frightful. He stays in the woods for a whole year and this is the story of how he does it. I LOVED it!!! It also has a sequel to it called "On The Far Side Of The Mountain". "My Side of the Mountain" is a Newberry honor book!
This is a fun book written in rhyme about a kid who has "science on the brain". He thinks about everything just like a scientist. His mom gets worried and sends him away to summer camp to turn him into a normal kid. Look for this book at your library to see what happens!
Here are some good ideas for summer:
Q.What do you get when you cross a potato with a computer?
Q.Where's the best place in school to plant flowers?
These riddles were sent to me by Amber Balog of Palatine, Illinois. THANKS, Amber!
Q: What's the best way to measure a dinosaur?
Q. What is a hamburger's motto?
Q. Who are the hamburgers' favorite people?
Q. What did the alien say when he saw the Milky Way Galaxy?
Q. Why can you never keep a secret on a farm?
Archibald Frisby by Michael Chesworth
The Learning Place: I found this at a site called KidsNet. It is a game on the internet that little kids can play that teaches them about colors and shapes. My brother Eric is 4 and he LOVED it. If you want to go try it out, click here .
Hamburger Cookies: These are neat, they look just like real miniature hamburgers but they taste like cookies because that's what they're made from. Here's how you make them: For each cookie use 2 vanilla wafers for the "bun". For the "hamburger", use 1 Keebler Fudge Shoppe chocolate mint cookie. Take white icing (the kind that comes in a can is what we use). Divide the icing into 2 batches. Tint 1 part yellow and the other part red. This makes the "mustard" and the "ketchup" which you use to hold the cookie together. Add coconut, tinted with green food coloring for "lettuce" and serve with shoestring potato sticks (that come in a can) as "french fries". These are sure to be a big hit every time! And you don't even have to turn on the oven to make them!!
Bubble Painting:For each color of bubble paint, you need 1 teaspoon of liquid detergent, 1 Tablespoon of water and 6 drops of food coloring. You also need cups, straws, spoons and white paper. To make a bubble painting, mix together the water, detergent and food coloring in separate cups. Stir well. BLOW bubbles in the mixtures by using a straw----be CAREFUL: you DON'T want to drink this stuff!. When the bubbles reach the top of the cup, scoop them out with a spoon and place them on the paper. OR you could lay the paper face down on top of the cup to pick up the bubbles. Cover your paper with large and small bubbles. When it's dry, you can use markers or crayons to add whatever you like. One idea is to use blue "bubble paint" to make an underwater picture. HAVE FUN!!!
Grow Your Own Butterfly:
During the summer if you find a caterpillar, you can bring it inside, along with lots of the leaves from the plant you found it on. We usually put the stems of the plant in some water and put the plant and the caterpillar in a container like a jar or coffee can. Make sure the caterpillar can get some air in whatever container you use. If you start out with a pretty big caterpillar then within a day or two, it will form into a chrysallis. Then you can take it out of the container so that you will have a good view of the butterfly when it hatches. This will probably take one or two weeks. Check the chrysallis each day. Be sure to have some fresh flowers for the new butterfly and be careful not to touch it until the wings are fully open and dry. This is a picture of me holding a newly hatched swallowtail. She crawled all over my brother and me and then after a day in the house we took her outside and put her in the garden.
Do you have a good idea? If you do, click below to send it to me and I'll put it in my page! See you later!
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Much of the wonderful wildlife on this page is borrowed from Spear Pins.