Eating the Blubber Glove

Some of the best gifts that the boys received this year were monthly subscription boxes to supplement this year's home school curriculum.  Liam gets monthly letters from a "pen pal" world traveller, Seamus gets a monthly woodworking kit, and the boys get a monthly science kit and a monthly Canadian geography kit that they share.   

One of the first kits they received was all about Weddell seals.  This could not have fit in more perfectly with Seamus' current Science unit about meat eating wild animals.  Part of the kit included a science experiment where the boys explored the insulating effect of a seal's blubber layer against the frigid Antarctic water.  They fabricated a "blubber glove" out of two ziplock bags with shortening mushed in between and then dipped both their bare hand and their blubber insulated hand in ice water to feel the temperature difference.  The boys loved this.  They were totally engaged.

After home school I was tasked with turning one slightly used blubber glove into dessert for dinner.  I was never one to let perfectly good blubber go to waste!  So, rhubarb raspberry pie it was.  I must tell you, blubber glove innards never tasted so good.

Even more exciting than the pie, the boys received their next package in the mail today!  It is all about volcanoes and shifting tectonic plates.  What could be more perfect?  The boys are ecstatic.