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Carrot Currant Coconut Salad

4/30/2017

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It's carrot season and we had so much fun making this delicious kid-friendly salad.  It's extra fun to say "carrot coconut currant salad" three times really fast!
Step 1:

We harvested and scrubbed clean 4 garden carrots.
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Step 2:

Grate the carrots.  The kids showed some great teamwork as they helped eachother with the grater.
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Step 3:

​Juice 4 limes and add lime juice to the grated carrots.
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Step 4:

Add 1/4 cup currants to the carrot mixture.
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Step 5:

Add 1/2 cup (unsweetened) coconut flakes.
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Step 6:

​Add 1/4 cup coconut oil and an optional 2 TBS honey.  We did not add any honey as the garden carrots are so fresh and sweet :)
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Step 7:

Mix together all ingredients.  Drop your spoon in the dirt?  That's OK!  We used a carrot as our stiriing utensil!
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Step 8:

​Yum!  The kids loved this simple salad!
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Here's some more awesome garden inspired activities we got up to!

Planting Seeds
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Garden Stamp Art
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Leaf Stencils
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Still Life with Garden Flowers
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Using Garden Flowers as Paintbrushes
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Question:
"What helps the garden grow?"
Answer:
​"Sun, rain, butterflies, and love"
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Watering Plants
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Bean and Seed Mosaic Trees
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Leaf Collages
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Science Projects

3 weeks ago we made a cloud in a bottle by puting very warm water in a bottle added some smoke and changing the air pressure. A young scientist asked if we could make a colored cloud.

So, we tried to!
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We first all made our own hypothesis, then we added green food coloring to the previous experiment.
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Add very warm water. 

Photos by 6 year old:)
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Then we add some smoke from a lit match.
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High pressure (squeezing the bottle) = very little cloud
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Low pressure (relaeasing the squeeze) = dense cloud
Results: Our cloud was not green!
Discussion: Why does the green just stay in the liquid water?
Because when water evaporates it leaves behind any molecules that are not water.
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Homemade Water Filter: 

Can we make a water filter from our yard?
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We layered sand, leaves, gravel, wood mulch, green grass, juniper bark, and ball moss into an invertered plastice bottle. We put in muddy water and it came out almost clear. Not good enough for drinking though.
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Chemical Reactions

Which chemical reaction will cause bubbles to rise the highest,
baking soda and lime juice or baking soda and vinegar?

The kids measured equal volumes for each reactant.

​"What is your hypothesis?"
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Baking soda and lime juice above!
Baking soda and vinegar below!
The sugar in the lime juice help the bubbles get tall.
The vinegar had a much faster reaction, spilling all over the table.
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More fun in the garden!​
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See you next time!!

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