Materials: 6 cups flour 2 cups salt 4 tablespoons cooking oil warm water plastic soda bottle dishwashing detergent food coloring vinegar baking dish or another pan 2 T baking soda   How to Make the Chemical Volcano First, make the ‘cone’ of the baking soda volcano. Mix 6 cups flour, 2 cups salt, 4 tablespoons cooking oil, and 2 cups ...

Heirloom Audio recently was given the opportunity to screen the next movie by the Erwin brothers – the filmmakers behind Mom’s Night Out and Woodlawn. Their next film, coming out in 2018, is called I Can Only Imagine, and it tells the incredible story that inspired the popular Mercy Me song. Shortly after the screening, we bumped into contemporary Christian ...

Poor ole’ Lightning McQueen. Once the dominant racecar driver in the Piston Cup series, he now spends his days staring at his trophies, reading his old newspaper clippings, and watching classic race reruns on TV. It’s downright depressing, but his last season on the circuit wasn’t successful, anyway. A new rookie named Jackson Storm was taking advantage of the latest ...

Remember the days when kids played outside … all day … and had to be told to come inside? Today, recreational time is dominated by televisions, tablets, smartphones and video games – and parents are left looking for the proper balance. Arlene Pellicane is one of those parents who was searching for answers, so she wrote a book about it. ...

George Alfred Henty (1832-1902), better known as G.A. Henty, is most widely known for his contributions to 19th century literature as a historical and adventure novelist. However, there’s so much more to G.A. Henty’s life than meets the eye. The man accomplished more in his seventy years than most of us could even dream about. G.A. Henty was also a ...

In one of my favorite 80’s movies, One Crazy Summer, John Cusack plays the role of a character named  Hoops McCann.  The movie opens up with Hoops and his friend, George, graduating from high school.  With no plans for the summer, George invites Hoops to go with him and his sister to the island of Nantucket to spend the summer. ...

One of Henty’s frankly acknowledged aims was to teach British boys how to behave.  As the Daily Telegraph observed of The Bravest of the Brave (1887): “Mr. Henty never loses sight of the moral purpose of his work – to enforce the doctrine of courage and truth, mercy and loving kindness, as indispensable to the making of an English gentleman”. ...

One of America’s greatest inventors and botanists, George Washington Carver, has an amazing story.    There are a lot of life lessons we can all learn from the way in which Carver lived.  He once said, “When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”  And that is exactly what ...

Want to make history come alive this summer for your family?  Check out 10 fun field trip ideas for you and your family!  Listen to your favorite G.A. Henty audio adventures as you travel with your family to create your own “extraordinary adventures”!  Go ahead, create fun family memories that will last a lifetime! Spend the day at a historical ...

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