How To Make A Worm Farm For Kids
Educate Your Kids, Have Fun And Save Money Too
by Faye Sparks
Nobody ever said that having fun couldn’t be a learning experience as well. There are many inexpensive and educational activities you can enjoy with your children. Learning together makes for smart kids and fond memories.
Your local library is the obvious place to start. Books provide unlimited knowledge and avenues to unknown destinations. You can benefit from some of the lectures and movies that are sometimes offered there, for free of for a very small fee. Inquire about the annual library book sale. You and your children can buy a large amount of books for a very low price.
Going to museums is a great way to make new discoveries. Most towns have numerous museums exhibiting a wide range of subjects including natural history and art. Some of the newer museums even offer interactive exhibits. Even if you go often, you can see different things each time. And definitely, do not miss going to aquariums, where your young minds can learn about marine life.
County and State Fairs can be great learning experiences as well. As long as you stay away from the rides and midway, the visit can be very inexpensive. You can go to many free shows such as swooping birds, dogs chasing a Frisbee and military bands. Some of the exhibits you can visit center around new cars and future energy sources. If you check the fair’s website, you should be able to find a listing of when kids can go in for free.
Enjoy the learning behind making a worm farm. This is a learning experience that could turn into a business. Worms can thrive in a properly made container and multiply quickly. Garden waste and table scraps are their main diet. (Not meat or dairy.) While they are not difficult to take care of, worms do need to be kept in moist and well drained soil. Fishermen and gardeners are going to be very interested in your product.
Visiting a nursing home can be very educational for your kids, and it can teach them much about life. It is not important whether they know someone there or not. Many homes welcome volunteers willing to spend time with some of the residents without family. It would be nice for visitors to bring greeting cards or some other small token to be given. Your presence there would be greatly appreciated.
You can also encourage your children to take classes to learn a new language, learn how to dance, play music or enjoy art. Let the child’s obvious talent be your guide or encourage the youngster to step out of his comfort zone and learn a new skill. You should have no trouble finding some of these classes at your local community college and in libraries.
Teach your kids games you used to play as a child, such as throwing horseshoes and washers. These games can allow your family to have a good time without spending any money. Invite the neighbors over for family contests.
It’s always great fun to tell your kids stories of your childhood, and to tell them some about their own childhood. For example, you could tell them how things went the day they came into the world. Sharing experiences allows everyone to learn, and nothing is as fun as everyone learning together as a family.
An accurate description of American Politics?
Finally got to Washington in the middle of the night
I couldn’t wait
I headed straight for the Capitol Mall
My heart began to pound
Yahoo! It really exists
The American International Pictures logo
I looked up at that Capitol Building
Couldn’t help but wonder why
I felt like saying “Hello, old friend”
Walked up the hill to touch it
Then I unzipped my pants
And pissed on it when nobody was looking
Like a great eternal Klansman
With his two flashing red eyes
Turn around he’s always watching
The Washington monument pricks the sky
With flags like pubic hair ringed ’round the bottom
The symbols of our heritage
Lit up proudly in the night
Somehow fits to see the homeless people
Passed out on the lawn
So this is where it happens
The power games and bribes
All lobbying for a piece of ass
Of the stars and stripes of corruption
Makes me feel so ashamed
To be an American
When we’re too stuck up to learn from our mistakes
Trying to start another Viet Nam
Whilke fiddling while Rome burns at home
The Boss says, “You’re laid off. Blame the Japanese”
“America’s back,” alright
At the game it plays the worst
Strip mining the world like a slave plantation
No wonder others hate us
And the Hitlers we handpick
To bleed their people dry
For our evil empire
The drug we’re fed
To make us like it
Is God and country with a band
People we know who should know better
Howl, “America riles. Let’s go to war!”
Business scams are what’s worth dying for
Are the Soviets our worst enemy?
We’re destroying ourselves instead
Who cares about our civil rights
As long as I get paid?
The blind Me-Generation
Doesn’t care if life’s a lie
so easily used, so proud to enforce
The stars and stripes of corruption
Let’s bring it all down!
Tell me who’s the real patriots
The Archie Bunker slobs waving flags?
Or the people with the guts to work
For some real change
Rednecks and bombs don’t make us strong
We loot the world, yet we can’t even feed ourselves
Our real test of strength is caring
Not the toys of war we sell the world
Just carry on, thankful to be farmed like worms
Old glory for a blanket
As you suck on your thumbs
Real freedom scares you
‘Cos it means responsibility
So you chicken out and threaten me
Saying, “Love it or leave it”
I’ll get beat up if I criticize it
You say you’ll fight to the death
To save your worthless flag
If you want a banana republic that bad
Why don’t you go move to one
But what can just one of us do?
Against all that money and power
Trying to crush us into roaches?
We don’t destroy society in a day
Until we change ourselves first
From the inside out
We can start by not lying so much
And treating other people like dirt
It’s easy not to base our lives
On how much we can scam
And you know
It feels good to lift that monkey off our backs
I’m thankful I live in a place
Where I can say the things I do
Without being taken out and shot
So I’m on guard against the goons
Trying to take my rights away
We’ve got to rise above the need for cops and laws
Let kids learn communication
Instead of schools pushing competition
How about more art and theater instead of sports?
People will always do drugs
Let’s legalize them
Crime drops when the mob can’t price them
Budget’s in the red?
Let’s tax religion
No one will do it for us
We’ll just have to fix ourselves
Honesty ain’t all that hard
Just put Rambo back inside your pants
Causing trouble for the system is much more fun
Thank you for the toilet paper
But your flag is meaningless to me
Look around, we’re all people
Who needs countries anyway?
Our land, I love it too
I think I love it more than you
I care enough to fight
The stars and stripes of corruption
Let’s bring it all down!
If we don’t try
If we just lie
If we can’t find
A way to do it better than this
Who will?
This song was written in 1986. Unfortunately, I feel it is still an accurate summary of American politics. Do you agree with me? Or do you disagree, and if so why?
The song is called ‘Stars and Stripes of Corruption’ and is by a band called the Dead Kennedys. It’s on the album Frankenchrist. They are an American band, by the way.