Fruity Fun

COWABUNGA, DUDE!:  We've been busy this month with some big baking projects. Mercifully, those are over, but we still like to play with our food.

Yesterday, I decided I wanted to make some healthier, no-bake snacks, and thought some cute Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle inspired apples were in order.

It was simply a matter of pasting a couple of candy eyes on Granny Smith apples (I used melted almond bark as 'glue,' and wrapping a fruit leather masks around 'em.

The kids happily had "turtle" for breakfast. 

Today's fun-with-fruit project involved giving some cherries a bit of bling. 

We broke out the almond bark again, and went with blue sparkling sprinkles for a patriotic look.

We melted the almond bark in the microwave, and started dipping cherries in it.

We let them set up for about a half a minute and then dunked them in the blue.

Super easy, super cute snack that you could use on multiple holidays (pink sprinkles for Valentine's day, red ones on Dr. Seuss' birthday). You could also give strawberries or little 'schoolboy' red apples the same treatment.

ROCKET REBUILD: We've had a bigish old box sitting around in our cupboard for years, a kit for a baking soda and vinegar powered rocket called "The Meteor."  We used it years ago and today, for whatever reason, decided to see if it had one more flight left in it before we sent it to the rocket recycling station (a/k/a the transfer station). 

The kids and I refurbished it, retaping fins and the fuselage, and carefully read the directions about how to launch it. 

This evening, after dinner, we took it to a deserted part of Discovery Park, by abandoned old government buildings, and launched it in the parking lot.

The first attempt was a complete FAIL - the plug came out while the rocket was on the launchpad, spilling rocket fuel (just vinegar and baking powder, thankfully) all over the parking lot.

The second go-round it went airborne!

MAKING MUSIC: The kids dusted off their guitars today and tried to tackle a song that's in heavy rotation on the radio right now, 's "Cecelia and the Satellite."

Fortunately, we found a pretty easy to follow tutorial for the song on YouTube: 
https://youtu.be/F_p3YaQHxUk


We'll keep practicing it and maybe post a video of them performing it in the next few days.