engage and encourage all ages
to be creative and inspired.
The author’s passion for paper
will have you and your family
making origami bookmarks,
paper pendants, bracelets, ac-
cordion flowers, kite birds,
puppets, wreaths garland, or-
naments and so much more!
What could be more fun
than science you can eat?
Snackable Science Experi-
ments (Page Street Publishing, Salem, 2019, $19.99) by Emma
Vanstone has ideas and recipes that allow you to discover and
devour. She has chapters to Investigate, Create, Build, Explore,
Discover, Imagine, and Invent. Easy to follow directions and de-
tailed illustrations have you making apple cider, removing a nut
shell without touching it, baking ice cream without melting it,
making a breadstick bridge, building things out of meringue, bak-
ing cell model cupcakes, exploring why pretzels are dark brown,
having a ketchup race, inventing fluffy eggs, and much more!
Not only are these activities educational but they taste good, too,
and help everyone realize that cooking is really a science!
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It seems many children
are talking about coding
but not everyone knows
exactly what it is or how to
do it. A Beginner’s Proj-
ects in Coding (Blooms-
bury Books, New York,
2020, $14.99), written by
Marc Scott and illustrated
by Mick Marston, will get
the entire family engaged
and talking about program-
ing. This book simply, but
thoroughly, explains what
coding can do and how to do it using Scratch and Python pro-
gramming languages. Before you know it, your children could
be creating talking characters, animating photographs and maybe
even building their own computer game. This book is packed
with information about coding, what it is, how to do it, and its
possibilities. It informs, encourages, and cautions the reader
about “everything coding.”
If none of these books have you looking forward to staying
indoors for a few more weeks, then go online or take a trip to
your library or bookstore. There are so many amazing books to
help you and your family look forward to a long, lingering win-
ter. Keep in mind the spring holidays and celebrations that will
soon be here. Some of our creations may be the perfect gift for a
loved one or a friend!
Dr. Donna Phillips is an associate professor in the College of
Education at Niagara University where her specialty is literacy
and children’s literacy. She lives on Grand Island and is the
mother of two adult children and grandmother of one.
March 2020 WNY Family 59