​One day, as my child got off the school bus, she carefully  hold a small cup and got off. It was filled with soil. She told that had planted cones inside her cup at the school. She said these cones would later sprout and grow so that the corn would open up. Maybe she was taught about seeds and plants in school. Then she quietly spoke to me. Here, she secretly planted a goldfish snack together.

​In the United States, among the snacks children eat at snack time or lunchtime in the school, Goldfish is a famous snack. It is a very small and cute goldfish-shaped snack common and well-known in Americans like an apple pie. It comes in various flavors such as cheese, bezel, and rainbow and is not sweet at all, but children like it, so it is well known as a healthy snack that mothers can safely feed their children. Of course, our kids love Goldfish too. 

 If the child planted a goldfish snack in the soil, she said later it would become a goldfish tree, and she would be able to pick it up and eat it without  mother going to mart to buy it.
The goldfish snack tree will already be open in the child's mind.
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I tried to work with Photoshop while thinking of the child's imagination.

 Joseph Beuys said that every child in the world is an artist. I agree with his opinion. He was right. Children's imagination is unlimited, very creative, and gives us bright and happy energy. But I had to explain the differences between seeds and snacks for educational reasons, why goldfish snacks couldn't be a tree. After she had listened to it, she answered me. "It may not become a tree, but the Goldfish Snack will be a good nutrition for the corn."

  ​After talking with the child, I wondered if there were actually goldfish trees, so I searched the Internet. There were no trees, but there was a plant called Goldfish plant.

Goldfish plant (Columnea) is a genus of ca. 200 species of epiphytic herbs and shrubs in the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae, native to tropical America and the Caribbean. The tubular or oddly shaped flowers are usually large and brightly colored – typically red, yellow, or orange – sometimes resembling a fish in shape. A common name is flying goldfish plants (see the related Nematanthus) due to the unusual flower shape. (by Wikipedia)

  ​The creative ideas of the children helped me to learn the goldfish plant and to work on the related drawings. And in the future, I really hope that trees like this will open and give hope to people suffering from hunger anywhere in the world

  Native American Day is a holiday observed in several states in celebration of Native American culture. In California and Nevada, the holiday is designated on the fourth Friday of September, whereas in South Dakota and Wisconsin, it falls on the second Monday of October. 

 Last week I got a letter from my second child's school telling me they were having a parade to celebrate Native American Day. For this parade, students will have to transform their t-shirts to create native American clothes.
First of all, the school delivered pictures of Native American pictograph, as shown below, and instructed the students to practice and draw on T-shirts. I posted how to transform this image file into a vector file on the info post. I taught my kids how to convert images and change colors by converting them to a computer, and they love it.
First, draw a picture with Sharpie marker (or fabric markers) like the one below on the t-shirt.

 And then we fringed the bottom of the shirt and the sleeves like below. 

 ​Then, around the neck, we  made a knot with three pretty threads and sewed it.

 ​As shown below, we made a belt and attached it, and there was a pink feather, so I sewed it around the neck.

Below is the final result.