March is Music & Entertainment Month for Readingtokids.org. I have been saving decorative tins for several years, not knowing quite what to do with them. You know the kind, filled with Shortbread and/or Chocolate Cookies. The tins are too nice to just throw away. In 2020 Drums started beating in head and it became clear…
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Dinosaurs Hatching from Pumpkins!
October’s Reading to Kids theme “Halloween, Magic & Monsters” started with a Solar Eclipse followed by Wonderful Books in a Campfire Style Reading, Halloween Crafts and a Magic Show Finale. The Books Kindergarten – “Pete the Cat and the itsy Bitsy Spider” by James Dean, 1st Grade – “How to Catch a Monster” by Adam…
Dinosaurs in the Valley
Last weekend I visited Dinosaurs in the Valley at Pierce College in Woodland Hills. Full size Dinosaurs roamed the grounds. Signs are posted to watch for swinging tails and moving heads! What most impressed me was the information on Dimitrodon & Edaphosaurus not being Dinosaurs. So many movies & toy companies incorrectly include them in…
Happy New Year!
Xiuhcoatl the Aztec Dragon & Dominic the T-Rex with their Horns and me with a couple of Dinosaur Shakers, Ring in the New Year! It’s Great to be a Dinosaur Fan. The pace of Discovery & Description is Fast & Furious with around 50 New Dinosaur Species coming to light each Year! Here are just…
Day of the Dead – Dia de Muertos
While many celebrate Halloween in a ghoulish fashion, Dia de Muertos is a joyful celebration to pay respects and remember friends and family members who have died. Dia de Muertos is two days, generally November 1st & 2nd other days may be included depending on locality. It is celebrated in Mexico and other places, especially…
Early Birds & Spinosaurus
Photo of Gansus yumenensis above By Jonathan Chen – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80612076 New species of Birds were discovered in China fossils approximately 80 miles from the westernmost reach of the Great Wall. More than half the fossils found in this site belong to the species Gansus yumenensis. Over the last two decades,…
The Easter Dragon
Careful Xiuhcoatl You’ll Melt the Chocolate! We left off with Xiuhcoatl after the application of Rust Reformer which transformed her into a “Night Dragon”. To get a feel for what it would be like to finish Xiuhcoatl in flat black, I attached temporary colored paper eyes. It reminded me of Moaning Myrtle’s observation in Harry…
The Prehistoric Hidden Garden continued…
We left off with a preliminary sketch of the front gate of the Prehistoric Hidden Garden. Remember from post dated December 18, 2020 “A Hidden Garden”, this Art Project was inspired by the readingtokids.org December book “The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden” by Karina Yan Glaser. “The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden” is a Wonderful…
The Age of the Dinosaurs
Many Movies have brought Dinosaurs to the Big Screen for all of us to Marvel in Amazement. The Jurassic Park & World Movies are probably the most famous. The Jurassic Period is only one of the of three Periods Dinosaurs Roamed the Earth. The Triassic Period (251 – 199 Million Years Ago), Jurassic Period (199…
Ankylosaurus & Raptors
We left off with the Clever Girl receiving Hammered Gray as the primary color for the mouth. Brison & Xavier received the same treatment. First masking off with blue tape & recycled plastic bags. Then the Great Reveal! Night Black Metallic and Gloss Real Orange provided Clever Girl with highlights around the Eyes and on…