As iI have mentioned in pp, we are reading Little House on the Prairie. I scoped out some projects to do with dd in conjunction of reading the books and one of them was making butter. You take whipping cream and pour it in a jar and shake for a while and we did it!!!! It happened so quick...One second it was just all foamy and the next there was a lump of butter in buttermilk!! I even found a LHOTP worksheet on making butter that we are gonna do now!!
I know exactly what you mean! It starts getting a little thick, and then suddenly it's a solid mass! That to me is SO COOL!
I LOVE the Little House books! As a girl, my grandma would get me a new one every Christmas, but I never sat down and read them all until I was in college and was doing a Laura Ingalls Wilder unit. My parents and I went to her last house in Missouri and the place in Kansas. They have a really neat sounding festival each summer in South Dakota (I think) that I think would be so neat to go to.
I'm going to take Eli to the homestead here in MO in November. We live less than an hour away. But that means actually reading a story before then...lol. Although, I think it will be at least a year or two before he really puts it all together.
I am wondering when Jack will be interested in Farmer Boy. I have checked out some of the picture book versions and he likes those. But I am suspecting that the liking comes a lot from the fact that they have a dog named Jack.
That is cool!! I just started reading those to my girls too. I bet they would get a kick out of making butter! Thanks for the info!!
I'll never forget the first time my kids made butter. They were in regular school & Knew milk came from cows but not that you got butter if you overwhipped the cream! They were sooo surprised.
Is it her prairie house ... or one she lived in when she was older? Either way, that is soooo exciting I would love to see a picture of it ... I love Little House ...if you want to see the original tv series, you can buy them for around $25 a season at Sam's Club. They are always great to watch .. and good, clean fun. That is rare for tv today ... BeckyB
The one in MO is her house when she was older--Rocky Ridge or something like that? Or maybe I'm thinking Rocky Road since it's 3:50 and I never had lunch!:lol: The one in Kansas that we went to was just this little shanty-type thing with nothing around really. It probably wasn't worth the extra driving, but now we can say we've done it! I don't have any pics on the computer because that was in the pre-digital dark ages. I would love to see pictures, Amie!
It's the Rocky Ridge Farm in Mansfield, MO. It is the home she lived in when she wrote the books. Here is there website, in case you're interested. http://www.lauraingallswilderhome.com/ I'll be sure to take lots of pictures.
we some how have a copy of Farmer Boy, it has a torn cover and that is how dd got interested in little house books. I am not sure what one she is on , but even at her age they are interesting!
I would love to re-read them again...in all my spare time.:lol: When I was reading them in college it was winter time and I wuld just snuggle in bed and read all day. Ahhh...It'll be YEARS before that happens again!!
I may have to read the books! My daughter is "reading" them... she likes the fact that the 1st one has a girl gathering eggs from her chicken coop (my daughters favorite thing to do)
We are studying her too. Here is a link the kids thought was cool.... http://www.ingallshomestead.com/virtualvisit.html It is a virtual visit of some places related to her.
Do you know that there's also the Little House Chapter Books? They have them at the library. They take a theme, such as Christmas, and take all the Christmas adventures out of the books and put them into one shorter volume. Because it's not as thick, younger readers aren't intimidated by them.
