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Spring Flower Art Collage Posted: 30 Apr 2022 06:00 AM PDT Click here to read Spring Flower Art Collage on Hands On As We Grow® If you’re ready to be done with winter, a spring flower art collage from Francis is sure to brighten your day! Winter has been extra long here in the UK. Although we've kept ourselves busy with winter activities, spring is our favorite. Brighter days, shiny green shoots, and colorful flowers get us excited! To get us in a spring mood, Melissa and I decided to make a flower craft. She had a hard time deciding between making a sun or a flower. In the end, she decided a colorful flower would be more fun. She loves flowers! Stay in a spring-y mood with Real Flower Crafts & Activities! I thought it would be great to use some old magazines and catalogs before they went into our recycling bin. A collage sounded like a good idea! This activity turned out to be very easy to set up and didn’t need many materials. In fact, we had everything already on hand! I bet you do, too. Make Your Spring Flower Art Collage With: – Scissors – Magazines/catalogs – Pencil for drawing the outline – Glue stick – Stock paper I drew the outline of a flower on our stock paper and Melissa wanted to add some grass too. We only had an A3 (11.7in x 16.5in) paper so it turned out to be quite a big flower! You can use a smaller sized paper to make quicker collages, too. Melissa chose the colors of every part of her flower ahead of time., It makes it easier when looking for them in the magazines. Then the search and cutting began! Melissa would look for the colors and cut them out of the magazines. She separated them into piles by color. After we had decided we had enough of each color, she started gluing them in their place. This part is a lot of fun because there's no right or wrong here. Even going outside the outline a bit gives it an extra artistic effect! She had chosen different colors for each petal. We were both looking forward to seeing see how they would turn out. Pink is her favourite colour, so she worked especially hard on that petal! Use these fun activities to promote fine motor skills! We loved our flower collage. Melissa was very proud! She hung it in our living room so everyone can see it. What are your favorite activities to get ready for spring?

Easy DIY Lava Lamp Science Experiment for Kids Posted: 29 Apr 2022 06:00 AM PDT Click here to read Easy DIY Lava Lamp Science Experiment for Kids on Hands On As We Grow® Make a lava lamp with your preschooler, and your preschooler will love science experiments!  Lava lamps are simple to make. Like crazy easy. My kids love experimenting! And I love watching them discover the world through science and creativity. Easy DIY Lava Lamp Science Experiment for Kids Even I was shocked at what a big hit this easy DIY lava lamp science experiment was with the boys. Just 5 simple supplies are all you need to DIY your own! To DIY your own lava lamp science experiment, you’ll needL Vegetable oil (or get a clear oil) Water Food coloring of your choice Alka-Seltzer Tablets (as many as you choose, the more the merrier!) Clear container (the taller and skinnier, the better the effect) Don’t have Alka Seltzer? See how to make a lava lamp without Alka Seltzer! 4 Simple Steps to Science Fun & Fizzies Fill the container with 2 parts oil, 1 part water, leaving some room at the top of the container for a little bit of bubbling Drop in a few drops of food coloring Add an Alka-Selzer Tablet, start with 1/4 or a half a tablet to begin with Watch is fizz and bubble up to the top! We did three containers of lava lamps. Three different colors, for triple the lava fun! It took a lot of oil, though. I wish I had more on hand because I didn’t quite have 2/3 for each container. The oil is essentially the lava lamp portion, so it would have been nice to have more of it. But it still worked! I also wish I had clear oil on hand instead of vegetable oil. But I’m not sure what kind of oil besides baby oil is clear. Any suggestions? Henry dropped in tablet after tablet. Over and over, watching it bubble up!  He used the entire box of Alka-Selzer just for this experiment! The green one really captured his attention.  Maybe because it’s his favorite color. Or maybe because it was the tallest and skinniest, so it had the best reactions. Have more colorful science fun with an easy magic milk experiment! It was even interesting from the top of the bottles. Or, at least Henry thought so. Once we were starting to run out of Alka-Selzer tablets, we started combining the colors and making them bubble together. We were surprised to see that the colored bubbled remained separate! Instead of red bubbles mixing with blue bubbles to make purple, everything stayed red or blue. Cool, huh?!?! Can you see the little red ones in the mix of the big blue bubbles? We tend to do a lot of science in our house, with tons of easy experiments happening all the time. The boys love anything that fizzes and bubbles. We also really like this baking soda and colored vinegar science experiment for kids. What’s your favorite science experiment to do with the kids? Share your ideas in the comments!

Sizzlin’ Summer Activities for Preschoolers That Are So Much Fun! Posted: 28 Apr 2022 06:00 AM PDT Click here to read Sizzlin’ Summer Activities for Preschoolers That Are So Much Fun! on Hands On As We Grow® Let’s celebrate summer with some fun activities to get wet, play outside and get crafty for preschoolers! We pulled together an awesome list of fun and simple summer activities for kids that you can do right at home. Memorial Day is passed here in the United States, and that usually marks the beginning of summer. Make this Summer Much More Fun! (and easier too) with CAMP MOM. Grab it here. Here are several summer water activities for preschoolers, outdoor play activities to do this summer, as well as summer crafts. These ideas are perfect for preschooler age, simple to pull off, and focus on summer themes. Plus there is lots of opportunity for learning and developing those fine and gross motor muscle skills. And they will be having so much fun they won't even realize they are learning! Summer Water Activities for Preschoolers Let’s take these water activities outside and get wet this summer! Water is one thing that all kids love to splash around, play and get creative with. The possibilities are endless, give these a try! Add some soap to the water and make giant bubbles like Make and Takes did. Getting inside the bubbles looks like the kind of summer activity preschoolers would have fun with! Race I Heart Nap Time’s soap boats with gutters and water. The kids can design their own sails for the boats before starting the race! Take a cue from Happy Hooligans and put together a do-it-yourself waterslide. The fact that it’s cheap and easy makes it even better. Make your own pool noodle water wall. Teaching Mama shares how to make one with just three materials. Hang up (and burst!) the water balloon pinatas from Meaningful Mama’s water obstacle course. A fun activity for preschoolers to play and cool down in the summer heat. Set up water cup races! This game for All for the Boys would work well with any kind of water blasters you have on hand. Why not try your hand at water balloon target practice? Tinkerlab shares how to set up this simple, engaging summer activity for kids. Mess for Less’ water balloon hunt seems like a great cross between a scavenger hunt and a water balloon fight. I can just see my preschoolers having a blast with this summer activity! Water Blob Twister sounds like an amazingly cool game to try this summer. Paging Fun Mums shares all the details. Outdoor Summer Activities for Preschoolers Water is not the end of outdoor fun this summer! There’s plenty to do in the backyard. So grab your sidewalk chalk, or go on a hunt and find some nature! Your preschoolers are going to have a blast with these summer activities. Set up Learn Play Imagine’s pool noodle games for an afternoon. The ball toss and hurdles are sure to keep the kids laughing and playing the day away. Grab the chalk and set up a squiggly line tracing activity. The kids always enjoy this summer activity, especially when paired with water. Bring along some paint samples for a color matching walk this summer. Fantastic Fun and Learning went looking for various plants and flowers in their neighborhood, but the backyard would work just as well! Mix up some bubble solution and try making rainbow bubble snakes. Housing a Forest made them using items from around the house. Make outdoor activity rocks to use as backyard challenges. KC Edventures has some fun activity ideas to use them throughout the summer with your preschoolers. Go on a nature scavenger hunt. The kids can collect anything that catches their fancy, or they can put together a list ahead of time. Drive toy cars and trucks through a chalk-painted maze. Lots of problem-solving activity fun for a summer day with preschoolers. Add learning to this by having the follow the number, or follow a letter! Go bowling with coconuts! Fun-A-Day shares this super simple game using a unique bowling ball. Reading Confetti’s frozen chalk lends itself to so much art and science on a hot day. The kids can help create the chalk and then set it to good use on the sidewalk. Play a homemade game of tic-tac-toe outside. Chicken Scratch NY used a tree stump and painted rocks. Kids can customize their game pieces for this summer activity. Stuck indoors? Download FREE Week of Active Indoor Fun for Kids! Get Crafty with Preschoolers this Summer For some reason, summer just begs to be creative and crafty! Make this summer one you won’t forget by creating these adorable summer crafts during activity time with your preschoolers! Collect some pine cones and create a firefly. Fireflies and Mud Pies’ craft would be fun after an evening catching the real thing. Get painting with Happy Hooligans’s paper plate watermelon craft. Real watermelon seeds could be used in place of the beans. Make No Time for Flash Cards’ toilet paper roll fish. This would be a fun summer activity to do with your preschoolers right before a trip to the beach. Change up some old flip flops as part of JDaniel4’s fish-flop painting activity. Run along a big piece of paper to keep, or try some washable paints on the sidewalk. A Little Pinch of Perfect’s ocean animal sun catcher would look so nice in the kitchen windows. Kids can pick their favorite ocean animal for the center in this summer activity. This is great for learning fine motor skills! Paint egg carton turtles like Emma Owl. A few materials are all you need to get this going. Make Buggy and Buddy’s octopus craft with colored pasta. Add some string and turn it into a tentacled wind catcher for the porch. Make and decorate kites for flying on breezy summer days for some gross motor activity fun with preschoolers, and big kids too. In the Playroom details how to put everything together with paper, string, and sticks. After a walk around the neighborhood, create Happy Hooligans’ nature faces! They could be self portraits or just free art using natural materials. Still Playing School’s sunny sun catcher would look beautiful in the window. She shares a great tip for making these melted bead crafts. What are some of your favorite things to do with your kids in the summer? Share some of your summer activity ideas for preschoolers with us in the comments.

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Mapped: Beer Consumption in the U.S. Posted: 29 Apr 2022 02:12 PM PDT Mapped: Beer Consumption in the U.S. Beer consumption spans almost the entire world, and is a staple in much of the United States. When stacked up next to other alcoholic beverages, beer is America's preferred drink of choice, closely followed by wine and spirits. In fact, it is the fifth most-consumed drink overall in the country, behind coffee, water, soft drinks and tea. At the end of 2021, beer in the U.S. was a $94.1 billion industry. Alongside massive multinational conglomerations, it is also driven by over 9,000 breweries of different types. This visualization, created by Victor Dépré of Hypntic Data, maps the consumption of beer by gallons per capita across the U.S. using data from Top Agency and The Beer Institute. What is Beer? Beer is produced from the fermentation of combined water, malt, and yeast. It was first produced 12,000 years ago with the emergence of grain agriculture. Today, beer is made from several different malted grains: wheat, corn, rice, oats, and most commonly, barley. Hops, a type of flower, are added for flavor, balancing out the malt's sweetness with a bitter taste while also preserving the beer's freshness and giving a good amount of foam. American Beer Consumption By State So which states drank the most beer, and what was their preferred brand? The annual consumption stats come from the Beer Institute’s Brewer’s Almanac report, while the preferred beer of choice was compiled by Data Agency’s 2021 Beer Rankings report, which is based on a combination of surveys combined with Google search analysis from all over the country. Beer Consumption By State (2020) Annual Gallons Per Capita Preferred Beer Alabama 29.1 Budweiser Alaska 26.1 Arizona 27.0 Dos Equis Arkansas 23.9 Budweiser California 24.5 Budweiser Colorado 28.1 Denver Beer Co Connecticut 19.8 Bud Light Delaware 27.9 Dogfish Head District of Columbia 18.2 Florida 25.4 Stella Georgia 23.0 Terrapin Hawaii 26.7 Idaho 25.0 Budweiser Illinois 25.9 Goose Island Indiana 23.6 Miller Light Iowa 31.0 Budweiser Kansas 27.8 Coors Light Kentucky 23.1 Budweiser Louisiana 28.4 Abita Maine 32.5 Budweiser Maryland 19.7 Budweiser Massachusetts 21.1 Budweiser Michigan 23.6 Budweiser Minnesota 27.1 Budweiser Mississippi 31.6 Lazy Magnolia Missouri 26.9 Budweiser Montana 41.1 Budweiser Nebraska 31.6 Nebraska Black Betty Nevada 29.0 Coors Light New Hampshire 41.5 Budweiser New Jersey 20.0 Miller Light New Mexico 27.7 La Cumbre New York 20.2 Budweiser North Carolina 25.8 Bud Light North Dakota 37.5 Fargo Ohio 25.5 Heineken Oklahoma 26.8 Budweiser Oregon 27.7 Budweiser Pennsylvania 24.9 Bud Light Rhode Island 20.1 Narragansett South Carolina 32.5 Budweiser South Dakota 37.3 Budweiser Tennessee 24.2 Budweiser Texas 31.9 Lone Star Utah 20.0 Budweiser Vermont 34.0 Bud Light Virginia 24.2 Budweiser Washington 23.7 Bud Light West Virginia 27.8 Budweiser Wisconsin 33.7 Spotted Cow Wyoming 29.8 Snake River New Hampshire took the top spot in 2020, outdrinking other states with 41.5 gallons of beer consumed annually per capita. In contrast, the lowest consuming state was Maryland which only consumed 19.7 gallons per capita, about half as much. The most popular beer? Despite the growing trend of craft breweries in some states, the most popular beer across the country was Budweiser of Anheuser-Busch, which took the top spot in 23 states. Which State Has The Most Breweries? Each state also has varying numbers of breweries operating within, and there are many different types. Larger breweries, including those run by some of the world’s largest companies, are also called macrobreweries. They are usually defined as having an annual production greater than 6 million barrels of beer, compared to craft breweries and other types of microbreweries which have a lower annual production. Craft breweries are also usually independently owned, and through both positioning and general perception, have come to be associated with specialties and originality, adding unique and interesting ingredients to traditional brews. Breweries By State (2020) # of Breweries Alabama 70 Alaska 68 Arizona 170 Arkansas 73 California 1,466 Colorado 565 Connecticut 163 Delaware 49 District of Columbia 17 Florida 505 Georgia 191 Hawaii 46 Idaho 116 Illinois 406 Indiana 283 Iowa 151 Kansas 83 Kentucky 119 Louisiana 67 Maine 201 Maryland 177 Massachusetts 304 Michigan 611 Minnesota 291 Mississippi 26 Missouri 215 Montana 130 Nebraska 74 Nevada 73 New Hampshire 133 New Jersey 188 New Mexico 154 New York 680 North Carolina 514 North Dakota 31 Ohio 497 Oklahoma 91 Oregon 431 Pennsylvania 642 Rhode Island 50 South Carolina 135 South Dakota 59 Tennessee 196 Texas 532 Utah 54 Vermont 106 Virginia 425 Washington 633 West Virginia 37 Wisconsin 364 Wyoming 52 California has the highest number of breweries in the country, more than double any other state, at 1,466. On the flip side, Mississippi has the fewest breweries, with the most recent Beer Institute’s 2021 almanac only listing 26 in the entire state. Beer Sales During the Pandemic Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, commonplace items saw massive spikes in sales across the world. As lockdowns were implemented and people were forced to stay at home, household items like toilet paper, soap, and pastas began to disappear from store shelves at alarmingly fast rates. Beer was no exception, and sales have continued to increase, going up by 8.9% in the U.S. since 2020. This is a worrisome fact to many researchers, as it could be a strong indicator that alcohol was used as a coping mechanism against anxiety and isolation felt during the pandemic. This rise could be a result of increased consumption, but may also indicate increased stockpiling. Regardless of why beer sales increased, it will be interesting to see which way the trend swings with the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions and the attempted return to normalcy in the months to come. The post Mapped: Beer Consumption in the U.S. appeared first on Visual Capitalist.

Why Investors Tuned Out Netflix Posted: 29 Apr 2022 10:27 AM PDT Why Investors Tuned Out Netflix Netflix shares have enjoyed an incredible run over the past decade. Subscriber growth seemed limitless, profitability was improving, and the pandemic gave us a compelling case for watching TV at home. Things took a drastic turn on April 19, 2022, when Netflix announced its Q1 results. Rather than gaining subscribers as forecasted, the company lost 200,000. This was the first decline in over a decade, and investors rushed to pull their money out. So, is there a buying opportunity now that Netflix shares are trading at multi-year lows? To help you decide, we've provided further context around this historic crash. Netflix Shares Fall Flat Over the span of a few months, Netflix shares have erased roughly four years worth of gains. Not all of these losses are due to the drop in subscribers, however. Prior to the Q1 earnings announcement, Netflix had lost most of its pandemic-related gains. This was primarily due to rising interest rates and people spending less time at home. Still, analysts expected Netflix to add 2.7 million subscribers. After announcing it had lost 200,000 subscribers instead, the stock quickly fell below $200 (the first time since late 2017). YTD performance (as of April 29, 2022) is an abysmal -67%. What's to Blame? Netflix pointed to three culprits for its loss in subscribers: The suspension of its services in Russia Increasing competition Account sharing Let's focus on the latter two, starting with competition. The following table compares the number of subscribers between Netflix and two prominent rivals: Disney+ and HBO. Date Netflix Subscribers Disney+ Subscribers HBO & HBO Max Subscribers Q1 2020 182.8M 26.5M 53.8M Q2 2020 192.9M 33.5M 55.5M Q3 2020 195.1M 60.5M 56.9M Q4 2020 203.6M 73.7M 60.6M Q1 2021 207.6M 94.9M 63.9M Q2 2021 209.2M 103.6M 67.5M Q3 2021 213.6M 116.0M 69.4M Q4 2021 221.8M 118.1M 73.8M Q1 2022 221.6M 129.8M 76.8M Disney+ was launched in November 2019, while HBO Max was launched in May 2020. HBO (the channel) and HBO Max subscribers are rolled up as one. Based on this data, Netflix may be starting to feel the heat of competition. A loss in subscribers is bad news, but it's even worse when competitors report growth over the same time period. Keep in mind that we're only talking about a single quarter, and not a long-term trend. It's too early to say whether Netflix is actually losing ground, though the company has warned it could shed another 2 million subscribers by July. Next is account sharing, which according to Netflix, amounts to 100 million non-paying households. This is spread out across the entire world, but if we use the company's U.S. pricing as a benchmark, it translates to between $1 to $2 billion in lost revenue. Growth is Everything In the tech sector, growth is everything. If Netflix can't return to posting consecutive quarters of subscriber growth, it could be many years before the stock returns to its previous high. "We've definitely seen that once you get to 70, 80 millions of subs, things really tend to slow down. We saw it with HBO, and we've seen the same issues with Disney. They're hitting the upper limit on the big growth." – David Campo, NYU Regaining that momentum is going to be difficult, but Netflix does have plans. To address password sharing, the service may charge a fee for out-of-household profiles that are added to an account. The specifics around enforcement are vague, but Netflix is also considering a lower-priced subscription plan that includes advertising. Only time will tell if these strategies can stop the bleeding, or perhaps even boost profitability. Rampant inflation, which might persuade consumers to cut down on their subscriptions, could be a source of additional headwinds. The post Why Investors Tuned Out Netflix appeared first on Visual Capitalist.

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