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Kentucky Down Under is located by the Horse Cave exit (exit 58) off I-65 halfway between Louisville, KY and Nashville, TN.
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Ph: 1-800-762-2869 or
270-786-2634
Fax: 270-786-2636
Kentucky Down Under
PO Box 189
3700 L&N Turnpike Road
Horse Cave, Kentucky
42749-0189
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Click here to download detailed Kentucky map
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Cows, like the Jersey, can walk up stairs but not back down again – their knees won’t bend the right way. If they want down, they have to jump!
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COOL ACTIVITIES
Do Try This At Home!
Use your imagination—what would the perfect animal look like? Design an animal that would be the best designed to live in the Australian Outback. Remember to ask yourself questions like the ones below:
- What is its habitat like?
- What does it eat?
- What features will it have—legs, wings, a beak, claws, a tail, etc.?
- How are you going to put these features together?
- What body covering will it have?
Use a variety of things to produce your animal- Draw a picture, use clay, collage with magazine clippings, wallpaper scraps, feathers, etc.
Be creative!
When you're done, you'll have something to vote as "most Beautiful in the Bush"!
Materials:
- Plastic Bowl
- Pieces of charcoal, brick, tile, cement, sponge, etc. (just something porous)
- Water
- Salt
- Liquid bluing (at the grocery store in the laundry section)
- Food coloring
- Measuring spoons
- Place pieces of porous material in the bowl.
- Pour 2 Tablespoons water, 2 Tablespoons salt, and 2 Tablespoons of bluing over the base material. Set somewhere where air can circulate around your project.
- The next day, add 2 more Tablespoons of salt.
- On the 3rd day, pour into the bowl (NOT on top of the base), 2 more Tablespoons each salt, water, and bluing. Add a few drops of food coloring to each piece of base material.
- Crystals should form by day three. If not, you may add 2 Tablespoons of ammonia (Adults only!) to help the growth. To keep your formation growing, simply add water, salt and bluing from time to time.
Coral polyps in the Great Barrier Reef use calcium carbonate to form the crystals that create the stoney cup that protects their bodies and forms the reef just like your water, salt and bluing formed crystals!
Bats are a lot of help in keeping insect populations down. Build your bat friends a house of their own, hang it up in a safe place in your back yard and watch them come out at night to eat up all those mosquitoes!
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| Supplies: |
Wood- Rough, untreated, and unpainted (old barn wood, cedar,
etc.) Bats need to have rough wood to hold on to!
10 ft. of 1" x 8" and 11 in. of 1" x 10" for the roof
Nails- About 30 six-penny galvanized nails
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| Cut Pieces: |
Roof- 11" x 10"
Back- 8" x 22"
Front- 8" x 17 ¼"
2 Sides-8" wide x 22" long at back edge, 17 ¼" long at front edge
3 Inside Partitions-- 8" x 11" ; 8" x 12" ; 8" x 13"
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| Assemble : |
- Build an open box using the back, front and 2 side pieces. Nail
the side pieces, angled edge up, to the outside edges of the
front and back pieces.
- Nail the inside partitions to the roof. 2 ¾" from the front edge of the roof, center the 11" long partition and nail to the roof.
The 12" partition is nailed next, ¾" from the first partition and
centered on the roof. The 13" partition is next, 1" away from
the second. Turn entire assembly so partitions point down and insert into box. Nail roof to edges of the box. Bats fly in from
the bottom and roost between the partitions.
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Materials: Index cards
Scissors
Pencil
Pattern
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- Cut out boomerang patterns and trace onto file cards.
- Cut out boomerangs. Bend tips gently upward.
- To fly: Lay on the edge of a book and tip the book slightly upward. The book is the launching platform. Flick with your finger to make boomerang spin and fly. It should return to you. If not, bend blades upward a bit more.
Happy Flying!
Patterns
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Click here to download the KDU Coloring Book
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