My Education Junction

Even if your not having a pirate birthday party, the Pirate Gazette is full of summertime pirate fun and recipes. What will you find in the Pirate Gazette?

• How to make a Message in a Bottle Birthday Invitation
• A fun Pirate Poem that is great for Pirate Party Invitations
• Recipe of Sand Buckets & Sea Slush
• How to play Jump the Shark and more!

The Pirate Gazette -Easy printable PDF

Don’t forget to visit my Pirate Page!

Filed under: Rainy Day Recipes, Summer Break, Pirate Pages on June 17th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Nick loves being in the kitchen and recently I have been working on creating Squidoo pages, one of which is a pirate page. Nick keeps asking what can he do? So I decided we would make some fun things and video tape it. I am slowly working through my technology fears. That is one thing blogging has done for me. Often I have absolutely no idea what I am doing. In the past, that has been reason enough for me to give up. It’s taken me months not to be afraid of plugins- I know that sounds silly but it’s the God’s honest truth.

Our first video can be seen below. It’s called Kraken Salad. I had loaded it on YouTube but the resolution is pretty bad so I am going to try to put it on this page using Photobucket. With any luck it will work. Please don’t let the blue fingers turn you off- that is the first thing my Mom brought to my attention. We had made several other things before making the salad, and we had blue food coloring ALL over the place.

Hope you have fun watching our little show. We had fun making it:)
Oh by the way, don’t forget to visit my Pirate Page.

Previous Pirate: Post Ahoy, Me Hearties

Filed under: Rainy Day Recipes, Summer Break, Pirate Pages on June 12th, 2007 | No Comments »

Summer is upon us, and this week marks the opening of The Pirates of the Caribbean Part 3. My son loves Pirates of the Caribbean, and I am certain I will be spending the rest of my summer hearing things like, “shiver me timbers,” or ” I invoke the right of parley.” If your kids are Pirate fans here is a little pirate fun.

Ocean in a bottle
What You’ll Need
Clean, clear empty plastic bottle
Water
Baby oil
Blue food coloring
Small plastic fish, ship or small sea shells

1. Fill your bottle half way with water and add several drops of blue food coloring.
2. Place the cap on the bottle and shake the water to insure the food coloring mixes with the water.
3. Remove the cap and now pour baby oil into the bottle until the bottle is full.
4. Add plastic fish and/or sea shells to the bottle and replace cap, making sure it is closed tightly.

Turn the bottle on its side and rock the bottle gently right to left. You should see the rolling motion of the oil which will look exactly like wave.

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Another fun activity is to make treasure stones. You can do so using my the same recipe previously posted for fossil stones.

Treasure Stones
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1 cup used coffee grinds
1/2 cup cold leftover coffee

Mix ingredients together in a large bowl until it becomes a rough mix. Turn dough out onto a cutting board and knead into a smooth dough. Tear dough into equal sized chunks roughly the size of your fist. Shape dough into rock like form. Pressing your thumb down into the dough to create a small opening to place treasure. You may chose to place novelty gold coins, or plastic jewels inside the opening. Pinch the opening closed. Place your treasure rocks in a warm dry area to dry. This will take roughly a week. Once the rocks are dry, you can crack them open to find the treasure.

For more pirate fun see my Pirate Page!

Recent Pirate Post: Kraken Salad

Filed under: Rainy Day Recipes, Science, Pirate Pages on May 21st, 2007 | 3 Comments »