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DIY Giant Bubbles

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Big Bubble Bash, Fridays @ 4pm until the end of the school year!

If you've been to any of our outdoor events around Brooklyn, you've probably seen our giant bubbles. Since we are sheltering in and not having big events, we're sharing our secrets for our giant bubble recipe and DIY giant bubble wands.  Join your neighbors for a Big Bubble Bash Fridays to celebrate the end of another week of remote learning!

Bubbles

Giant Bubble Recipe

10 oz “Simply Dawn”  (NOT concentrated—important!)
1 TB baking powder
1 1/4 tsp J Lube Powder* (this will last you years!)
3 1/2 quarts water - 14 cups             

MIX carefully, not makig too many bubbles on top.

Note: Better if you make it a day in advance

 

DIY Giant Bubble Wands

Wooden Dowels or sturdy fallen tree branches/sticks

String (buy cotton string). 

OPTIONAL --- Rubber Bands (to connect string to wooden dowels)

OPTIONAL Washer (not necessary if the string is heavy enough)

  • Cut 2 strings, one about twice the length of the other (e.g., 60”and 30”).
  • Tie strings together leaving room at the ends to connect to dowel
  • Attach the strings to the sticks

NOTE:  Amazon has this telescopic bubble wand* that works dang good!  

Dip wand into the bubble juice, lift up and let the wind make bubbles. Close the bubble before it gets so big it pops!

We are working on a video!  Stay tuned!

 

If you buy from our links, PSP gets a little bit back. THANKS. (Oh, and the Jlube has some crazy reviews-- just giving you a heads up!)

 

PSP Update: We made it through April! Let’s keep going!

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Hey All,

We made it through April (and its showers), and May (and tomorrow) looks to be beautiful! Everything we’re hearing from the experts is that we’re doing the right thing by sheltering in place. With that, we’re seeing more talk of “What’s next” and “When can we….” The answer is this: for our community’s health and our family’s well-being we must stay on course and continue to pause even though we may want to get back to “normal.” Cuomo talks about having 14 consecutive days of decline in new cases before we start thinking about opening things up, and that sounds like a good plan to us.

That said, we’re ready to start having more conversations about planning for re-entry and navigating the new normal. That means conversations about daycare, summer camps, preschools, and nannies. We’ll be reminding you to vaccinate your kids, get your mammograms, and get your checkups. Stay tuned for more on that!

There are a few updates and things that have been swirling around my brain. There’s lots to tell you about, so grab a cup of tea, spa water, or fun drink and simmer on these thoughts.

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Local resources for all your quarantine photoshoot needs

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Hey All,

The Front Steps Project has raised $500,000 for lots of wonderful projects. Not everyone has a front porch, however, but there are some creative (yet safe) ways to get photos taken even without a porch. Here’s a photo of my family taken by Shrutti (https://www.thebabyphotographer.net/the-front-step-project).

If you’re in South Slope, you can find our big rainbow if you are on 7th Ave and 12th Street and look up 12th Street toward the park on the right.

Check with photographers, as many are doing these photo sessions for free in exchange for your donation to a great charity like a food bank!

Vanessa Ryan: Facebook
Vanessa McDonald Ryan: website / Facebook /
Leslie McQueen: website
Shrutti Garg: website
Adina Lerner Photography: website
Marc Goldberg: website
Sarah Lockhart: Instagram
JDZ Photography: website
Marj Kleinman: website

 

Susan Fox

Founder, Park Slope Parents

 

Homeschooling during Coronavirus: Top Tips for Staying Sane

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“Been homeschooling a 6-year old and 8-year old for one hour and 11 minutes,” Shonda Rhimes wrote on Twitter at the start of quarantine. “Teachers deserve to make a billion dollars a year. Or a week.” And that was on March 16—now more than a month in the past, although to many parents struggling to adapt to the demands of remote learning, it feels, much, MUCH longer. We hope these tips and words of advice sourced from the PSP community will help you maintain your sanity, or at the very least, feel a little less alone during these baffling times.

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Relationship Tips for Maintaining Harmony During COVID-19

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What a strange new world we are living in when a Google search for “love in the time of coronavirus” returns over one million results! Scroll through, and you’ll find endless tales of love during COVID, whether budding (see: the couple who went on a virtual date via their respective rooftops) or breaking apart (divorces in China spiked following the end of the lockdown). Most relationships, however, fall somewhere in the middle of that spectrum, and if you’re simultaneously feeling grateful for your partner’s company and also ready to jet off on a month-long solo vacation after all of this is over, you are not alone. The stress of self-isolation together, combined with heightened financial concerns, health worries, and general distress over the state of the world, can be a recipe for tension. We hope these tips will support the health of your relationship during the pandemic—and maybe even help you come out the other side with a stronger bond than before.

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  1. THE BIG LIST OF SOCIAL CONNECTION RESOURCES
  2. Do you have a Family Plan for COVID-19?
  3. Book Recs for All Ages from the PSP Community
  4. [Special] An Update from PSP Headquarters
  5. Top Tips for a Memorable Birthday in the Time of Coronavirus
  6. The Nuts and Bolts of Paying Your Nanny in the time of Coronavirus
  7. FAQ for Employers of Domestic Workers during COVID-19
  8. Employee Rights in the Time of COVID-19

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