17 Easy Hanukkah Crafts and Recipes To Keep Kids Busy All Eight Nights

From dreidels to menorahs and latkes to cookies, there's sure to be a recipe or craft here that your littles will love to ...
Mod Moms Club on MSN

These homemade Christmas ornaments are easy, fun and perfect for crafting with kids

Get out those popsicle sticks, make yourself some salt dough and grab your favorite arts and crafts supplies because these homemade Christmas ornaments are both fun and easy. This post appeared first ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Remarkable New Research on Ochre ‘Crayons’ Colors in Scientists’ Understanding of How Neanderthals Made Art

Three ancient pieces of ochre unearthed in Crimea were used by Neanderthals to draw and paint, a new study suggests. The findings highlight Neanderthals’ cognitive—and possibly creative—abilities, a ...
Ars Technica

Wear marks suggest Neanderthals made ocher crayons

Two chunks of ocher unearthed at ancient rock shelters in Ukraine were actually Neanderthal crayons, according to a recent study. The pair of artifacts, unearthed from layers 47,000 and 46,000 years ...
IFLScience

42,000-Year-Old Yellow Crayon Suggests Neanderthals Created Art – And It’s Still Sharp Too

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...
New Scientist

Prehistoric crayons provide clues to how Neanderthals created art

A remarkable yellow crayon unearthed in Crimea, still sharp after more than 40,000 years, indicates that painting lines on objects was part of Neanderthal culture. This discovery is the firmest ...
The Burlington Free Press

In 1993, a VT child named a Crayola crayon color. It's a top 3 crayon color in world

In 1993, the eight-year-old son of a Middlebury teacher decided to name a crayon after an egg shell and won a contest that spanned the entire nation. Christopher Straub of Bristol, armed with quaint ...
Reuters

Swiss glaciers melted sharply after light snowfall and heatwave, scientists say

OBERGOMS, Switzerland, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Switzerland's glaciers melted considerably over the past 12 months to log their fourth-largest reduction in ice volume on record, monitoring body GLAMOS said ...
kcra.com

Colorful crayon 'asphalt art' in Elk Grove helps keep pedestrians safe

COVERAGE. AND WALKING TO SCHOOL JUST GOT A WHOLE LOT BRIGHTER IN ELK GROVE. COLORFUL CROSSWALKS ARE NOW CATCHING EYES NEAR TWO SCHOOLS AND A LIBRARY. MELANIE WINGO JOINS US NOW LIVE FROM ELK GROVE ...
Fox 23

FOX23 Heat Experiment: Melting Crayons on a Sweltering Summer Day

Heat and color are related—the darker the color, the more heat that is absorbed. On a mostly sunny, 100 degree day, it doesn't take long to melt wax crayons. The video above demonstrates the order of ...
New Scientist

Unprecedented Arctic heatwave melted 1 per cent of Svalbard's ice

During the summer of 2024, six weeks of record-smashing heat led to a record-obliterating amount of ice melting on the islands of Svalbard in the Arctic. By the end of the summer, 1 per cent of all ...