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September: Fall Fun!

Are you looking for something fun and educational to do at home? Check out these library recommended STEAM activities, programs, podcasts and more! Click the links to visit activities and books.

For more ORL STEAM content visit: www.orl.bc.ca/steam

Cheese Pizza Day: Sept 5

Activities: Making Pizza with Kids: Pizza Dough Science - Preschool What is Yeast? - Elementary Make Your Own Pizza: Kid’s Edition - All Ages

Books to Read: Pizza by Frank Asch Every Night is Pizza Night by Kenji Lopez-Alt Pizza: Grill It, Bake It, Love It by Bruce Weinstein

Interesting Fact about Pizza: Over 5 billion pizzas are sold worldwide each year. Teddy Day: Sept 9

Activities: Bridge STEM Challenge - Preschool Elementary: Growing Gummy Bear Science - Elementary Blubber Glove Project: How Polar Stay Warm in Winter - All Ages

Books to Read: Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear by Alice Schertle The ABCs of Making Teddy Bears by Linda Mead Do Super Heroes Have Teddy Bears? by Carmella LaVigna Coyle

Interesting Facts about Teddy Bears: A Canadian soldier bought a black bear cub from a hunter during WWI, and the animal became a pet and mascot for his troop. The bear, named Winnipeg, later was given to the London Zoological Gardens, where Christopher Robin Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh author A.A. Milne’s son, took such a liking to her that he named his teddy bear after her.

National Play Doh Day: Sept 16 Activities: Button STEAM Activity Challenge for Kids - Preschool Sunflower Activity with Homemade Play Doh - Elementary Easy Play Dough Circuits - All Ages

Books to Read: Building Squishy Circuits by AnnMarie P. Thomas Dough Knights and Dragons by Dee Leone 101 Kids Activities That Are the Ooey, Gooey-est Ever! by Harrington, Jamie

Interesting Facts about Play Doh: 1. Play Doh was first sold as wallpaper cleaner. Before kids were playing with Play-Doh, their parents were using it to remove soot and dirt from their wall coverings by simply rolling the wad of goop across the surface. 2. Since 1956, more than 3 billion cans of Play-Doh have been sold. That’s enough to reach the Moon and back a total of three times. (Not bad for a wallpaper cleaner.) Crush a Tin Can Day: Sept 27

Activities: The Classic Tin Can Telephone - Preschool Tin Can Bird Feeder - Elementary How to Make Star Wars Tin Can Lanterns - All Ages

Books to Read: Tin Boy by Stephen Cole Franklin and the Tin Flute by Sharon Jennings Canning and Preserving for Dummies by Amelia Jeanroy

Interesting Fact about Tin Cans: The tin can was invented in 1810. Napoleon Bonaparte offered a reward in 1795 to anyone who could come up with a way to preserve food for military use. In 1810, French chef Nicolas Appert won the 12,000-franc prize by inventing canning – the process of sealing food or drink in a jar or bottle with the use of boiling water. This discovery cleared the way for the invention of the tin can only a year later. In 1810, British merchant Peter Durand got a patent for using tin plated steel to can food. Tin resists corrosion, making it an ideal covering for relatively cheap steel.