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Supplies:
- Baking soda (1/3 c.)
- Vinegar
- Small bowl
- Golf ball or other small ball that sinks and doesn't float
- Tray
- Paper towels
- Warm water (1 cup)
- Plastic wrap
- Food coloring
Directions:
- Put a golf ball in a small bowl. Cover both the ball and bowl with plastic wrap, making sure the wrap hangs out over the edge. Push the plastic wrap down around the ball.
- Mix a third cup baking soda into one cup of warm water and add food coloring. Mix well.
- Pour the mixture into the small bowl and over and around the golf ball. Make sure you cover the ball with the baking soda/water mixture. You may need to spoon in some of the baking soda that sits at the bottom of the bowl of warm water.
- Place the bowl in a flat place in the freezer. Freeze for at least 4 hrs.
- When frozen solid, place the bowl in warm water so the ice comes loose. Place on a tray and lift the volcano out of the bowl. Pry out the golf ball with a spoon and carefully remove the plastic wrap.
- Spoon on some vinegar and watch the icy volcano. This project is fun to do outside.
- Refreeze your volcano for another day, if there's anything left.
Watch this video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo3tfS85M4k&list=PLMEg2Dd0dSFctLfDQxsL5…
Supplies:
- Tablecloth
- Paints (any kind, or water colors could work too)
- Paintbrushes (any kind)
- Paint tray
- Tissue paper or construction paper (three sheets of different colors or just white works too)
- Cardboard
- Glue or Mod Podge
- Yarn or string
- Scissors
- Dowel(s) or a coat hanger or a branch with yarn or string tied on.
- Scissors
Directions:
- Cover your workspace with a table cloth or newspaper.
- Spread out your tissue paper (or construction paper).
- Apply paint to the tissue paper in broad strokes, (no need to cover the entire tissue paper with wet paint.) After the first color is dry, add another color. Let dry again before adding another color. Add designs too, like swirls or zigzags. Let tissue paper dry.
- Take cardboard and draw large shapes like a star, crescent moon, square, circle, etc. Cut out the shapes.
- When tissue paper is dry, tear into smaller pieces (but not tiny pieces).
- Water down some glue or use Mod Podge to cover a cardboard piece, then place a piece of painted tissue paper onto the glued piece of cardboard. Trim any excess tissue paper. Paint glue over the tissue paper too. Repeat with several shapes and allow all pieces to dry.
- With a grown-up's help, poke a hole at one end of each cardboard shape. Using different lengths of string or yarn, string up your shapes.
- Hang your stringed shapes from your branch or dowel. If you're using two dowels, you can tie them together first by crossing them and tying string or yarn where they intersect.
- Adjust your hanging shapes along the dowel so that it's balanced when it hangs. Hang your mobile art up for all to admire.
Watch this project at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl79U5s4GrA&list=PLMEg2Dd0dSFctLfDQxsL5…
Pikes Peak Library District Foundation is honored to receive $150,000 from the estate of Milt and Darlene Johnson.
As we have come to learn, Milt was what we at PPLD would refer to as a “power user.” While serving as the pharmacist at Broadmoor Drug at The Broadmoor Hotel, Milt often worked the 4-11 p.m. shift. With Dar teaching during the day, Milt became a mainstay at our Penrose Library where he spent countless hours educating himself on investments and investment strategies, pouring over resources such as The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Barron’s.
After he retired, Milt continued to visit the library almost daily and used the knowledge he gained at the library to build and grow his and Darlene’s investment portfolio. In fact, Milt became such a subject matter expert that many of the investment advisors he and Darlene used often called Milt for advice. We are grateful to be a recipient of their generosity, which based on this story, is due in part to the time Milt spent at Penrose Library. PPLD’s mission is to provide resources and opportunities that impact individual lives and build community, and we cannot think of a more compelling story that demonstrates the impact of patrons connecting with library resources and in this case quite literally building our community.
PPLD and the PPLD Foundation are truly grateful to Darlene and Milt for including the library as part of the imprint these gifts will forever leave on our region, and we are deeply touched by Darlene’s gesture to make the gift to PPLD in Milt’s memory. The PPLD Foundation was created in 2003 to raise philanthropic funds and build an endowment to support our 15 libraries and the more than 650,000 people we serve. PPLD ranks 10th out of Colorado’s 13 largest library systems in funding per person, and the PPLD Foundation was created to accept meaningful, generous gifts like Darlene’s. It is donations large and small that helps PPLD close our funding gap and continue providing resources and opportunities that impact individual lives and build community. We are truly sorry to have lost Darlene and Milt, but these gifts will ensure their legacy is forever remembered.
Read more about the Johnsons and their estate in The Gazette's coverage here.
Photo credit: Joe Hollmann and the City of Colorado Springs
For more information on how you can include PPLD in your estate planning and create your own lasting legacy, contact Lance James at (719) 531-6333, x6890, or email foundation@ppld.org.