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Wednesday, 7 October 2026

When Life Gives You Lemons, Make FUN Science Experiments

From the archive. This post was first published on the original Green Eggs and Moms blog and is kept here as it was.

Remember a previous post that said this:

Studies found that kids lose about 2 months of reading skills and 2.6 months of math skills during summer?

That gave some of you a scare.

But hey, cheer up!

Aside from this invaluable list of 20 activities to ward-off brain drain, here are more things you can do with kids to keep their brains working.

LemonsYep. You read right: MORE.

I now present:

FUN, fun, FUN mini-science projects you can do with the ever yellow and tangy lemon.

Head to our latest guest post titled: When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Fun Science Experiments over at Smart Parenting.

Share and comment if you like the post, it will make me smile.

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Creative Commons from Mr Paul Sharits & Mr Tony Conrad

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