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| |  Posted 5/17/2007 1:30:34 PM | |
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| Hi,
Tom and are not completely out of VBS this year because I volunteered to do the Wild Bible Adventure room for the sister church that we have helped the last few years. Our own church is not doing a VBS this year. I've been reading up on things and doing some experimenting.
I have tried two different times to do the onion thing. My first problem is that when I rub onion on my skin I can't smell it. I tried one day and thought maybe I needed a stronger onion. So today I was cutting one up and it was making me cry so I tried again and the same thing. I can smell onion in the room and I am not so old that I can't smell anything :-) but even right after putting it on I can't smell it. I tried cutting it with a lot of little slicing motions so it would give me all it had, but after putting it on my hand and going immediately outside and sticking my hand in Tom's face, he couldn't smell it either.
Have any of you experimented with this? I don't know how I'm going to dab it and dip it and have any noticeable smell to make the point they are getting at when I can't smell it in the first place.
If this doesn't work, does anyone else have a bright idea of how to do something similar that will work and make the point?
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| |  Posted 5/20/2007 6:31:02 PM | |
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| | I recently did an experiment on this myself after reading this. I could smell it but my sister couldn't. After mentioning it to my biology teacher (who goes to my chruch) she told me it was about something we had already learned. You have a gene mutation having to do with ATP - don't remember what ATP was, but I remember how we tested if you had the mutation. If you have a mutation then you can't smell or taste certain chemicals/ingredients, so maybe that's what's up. Just a suggestion, and that's what I would think. What type of Onions did you use?
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| | | Posted 5/20/2007 6:52:39 PM | |
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| Thanks for your response. I was just noticing yesterday that there is a side bar about the onions in the WBA materials that says white onions might be the best. I was using yellow onions, the cheapest ones that are usually available at local stores, and the ones I use all the time for cooking for that reason. :-) I bought a white onion today. I haven't tried it yet, but will soon.
I have never heard this gene thing. I can smell onions, I just couldn't smell it on my hand. I can smell them in the room, but rubbing it on my hand didn't seem to produce any odor on my hand. I can't see your post as I respond, but I think you said you or your sister could smell it and the other couldn't. It's funny isn't it? I am hoping that kids will have sensitive noses, but not sensitive skin. It seems that rubbing a strong onion on a child's skin could irritate, but nothing has been said about that, so I hope not.
Again thank you. Merigold |
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| | | Posted 5/20/2007 9:08:59 PM | |
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| I am also curious, does the spoon rubbing in the stainless steel pot really work? Has anyone tried that?
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| | | Posted 5/21/2007 9:54:59 PM | |
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| | We are already done with AR and yes - this really works! The kids were pretty amazed. |
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| cool!
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| | | Posted 6/29/2007 6:53:40 PM | |
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| | We experimented with the onions, too. None of the onions we tried worked--including white onions. If we can't make it work in our tests, we don't use it in the classroom. By the way, isn't it time-consuming? We only had 20 minutes for each rotation, and often the previous session ran long. We changed the activity. Using a black permanent marker, we had the crew leaders put a black spot on the backs of their children's hands. We assigned the groups different methods for trying to get rid of the black spots. Some groups waved their hands in the air and blew on them. Some groups used a dry paper towel and tried rubbing the spot three times. Some groups dipped their hands in a bucket of water three times. (Some children were able to remove the spot by diligently rubbing at it, but they wanted another black spot later when they found out the second part of the experiment.) Later when we showed the children how to get rid of their "black-spot-itis" we had the crew leaders cover the black spot with a red dry erase marker. Now the black was gone, and they had a red spot. The children then wiped away the red spot with a wet wipe. All of them, kinder to crew leaders, were amazed. We linked the colors to Day 4's lesson. The black reminds us of the sins we do. We tried to get rid of them on our own, but couldn't. The red reminds us of what Jesus did on the Cross; His blood covers our sins. He makes us clean. |
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| | | Posted 6/29/2007 10:55:59 PM | |
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| | I also experimented with this. I did smell the onion , but it wasn't that strong. Try garlic. We may use this. ONe of our workers at church has a severe reaction to onions, so we wanted an alternative. Also, someone gave me two stainless steel"stones" to get the smell off and they work! Blessings! Beach Robin |
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| | Thank you for posting about someone else having a severe reaction to onion. I get the craziest looks when I mention that I am allergic. Not only can I not eat them, but I can't be in the same room while they are being cut- It makes me unable to breathe. I also cannot use a knife that has cut onions until it has been thoroughly cleaned or what ever I used the knife on gives me the reaction. (When I was first married my husband cut an onion-While I was safety away from it- I used the same knife on a tomato- when I ate the tomato slice it caused me the same problems. Any way, onion is not used in my house at all. My husband and kids only have it when we are out somewhere. |
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| | | Posted 6/30/2007 11:09:27 PM | |
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| We used the white onions someone suggested and they were very stinky! I did not refrigerate them before which helps with the smell. Some of the kids and leaders were gagging! Our onions seemed kind of juicy so I wonder if they are too dried out or certain varieties they might not work as well.
He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty. Proverbs 28:19
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