Links To Videos For When You Can't Talk To The Children Anymore.

It is noon.  I have successfully done half a science lesson with two children who, I guarantee,  absorbed less than 10% of what I said because they couldn't keep their mouths closed to save their lives.  I think...maybe I was cut out for cloistered religious life and I missed my calling.  Here are a bunch of YouTube links we've recently watched...

This guy refined pure gold and silver from old jewelry and it looked very cool.

Ants eating a slice of banana.

And as a follow-up, ants eating a puddle of honey!

This guy hatched an emu egg in an incubator in his closet!  (Fyi- includes a dissection of a fertilized dead egg)

This girl completes the 'Wreck This Journal' books, and then flips through them.

The longest Rube Goldberg machine in the world turns on a Christmas tree.

Time lapse of what happens if you crack open an egg and then just leave it for a few weeks.

How to make clay from dirt.

Water mites swimming in a pond water sample.

Mantis versus spider, versus another, bigger mantis.  This did not end well for the smaller mantis.

Can a chicken raise a duck?

Viennese wild hamsters living in a graveyard.

Eleven incredibly fat racoons stuck in a porch.

A guy who owns a giant duck.

Turning a roll of tinfoil into a solid aluminum ball.

What if you put 1000 expanding dinosaurs in a bathtub?

What if you microwaved an avocado?  Or an egg?  Or a watermelon? 

A very odd British man put a GPS tracker on his cat for 24 hours just to see where it went.

Woodturning a burl into a coffee mug.