Month: September 2023

So your kid just brought home a baby bumblebee – What do you do? You put it in the freezer for 5 minutes to make it go into a hibernation sleep. Then tie dental floss around its belly (under the wings) and let it warm up in the sun. A few minutes later he’ll be buzzing around tethered to your leash and ready to take for a walk! When he gets tired after 10 minutes of play or so, you’ll be able to snip the line and let him go back to pollinating flowers.

Strollers are boring! Stick the kids in your wheelbarrow and set off for a jaunt. They’ll love it, and you will get one heck of a core workout! We recommend adding a few moving blankets or something of the sort for padding. For loads of fun, meetup with another dad for a kid hauling race!

Many great YouTube videos on this, but the secret sauce to make it viable to do at home is Pewter. Its low melting point (and relative non-toxicity) will allow you to melt a brick of pewter over a fire pit, grill, or stove top. Just use an old pot you don’t mind parting with. Scrape off the top few inches of a big ant hill and slowly pour the molten pewter into the tunnels. Let it cool (duh), then carefully dig it out with a shovel. Talcum powder, or a more aggressive Lysol or bleach spray will keep any pissed off ants from crawling up the shovel.

You throw the ball. The kids fight to be the one to catch it. Okay, hopefully “fight” is too strong of a word, but your kids will learn skills like ‘boxing-out’ that can be used in soccer and basketball, they’ll practice their catching and throwing skills for football and baseball, and you’ll fuel a healthy level of competitive drive, all while having fun together.

All the stuff out-of-towners do that locals take for granted… Bike and Segway tours, zoo’s, aquariums, ferris wheels, planetariums, and museums… Make it extra fun by dressing up as crime fighting superheroes or whatever silly costume you have stashed in the attic.