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Tasty Tuesday: Daily Recommendations for Recreation

Take a break, try out recipes, and indulge in food and your health today.

  • Date: 06/30/2020 (all day)

The Department of Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services will be providing recommended activities to do within the comfort of your home through the Virtual Recreation Center.

TAsty Tuesday Activities

Try out new recipes or do activities to improve your health. Here are some recommended activities:

 Link to Activities  Description
Live Online Ricky Roo & Friends Magic Puppet Show

Monday, 6/30 at 10:30 a.m.  

Travel through magical kingdoms and meet funny new friends with a magical puppet show!

 

Ricky Roo & Friends Puppet Show will put on an exciting performance for you and you will be able to ask questions to the puppeteer after the show.

 

Join the webinar here.

Password: magic

 

Please note: Our Zoom account caps out at 500 attendees. If the event reaches capacity, you can watch the livestream on Facebook live: www.facebook.com/santaclaracitylibrary

 

*For the safety of all attendees and staff, attendees will not be able to join the webinar with video and/or audio. A Q&A text section will be enabled.

Furikake Chex Mix

Furikake Chex Mix is a sweet salty Hawaii snack made from cereals and chips, tossed with furikake and a sweet and savory butter-soy sauce syrup. Step-by-step photo recipe included!

 

Furikake Chex Mix Recipe

 

What’s even better than buying Furikake Chex Mix? Making Furikake Chex Mix. (Though we all know that nothing beats being gifted a bag of homemade Furikake Chex Mix.) Below is the recipe we use at home.

 

The Cereal and Chip Mix:

  • 1 box Wheat Chex
  • 1 box Corn Chex
  • 1 box Honeycomb cereal
  • 1 bag (any size) Fritos
  • 1 bag (any size) Bugles
  • 1 bag (any size and shape) pretzels

The Butter-Soy Sauce Syrup:

  • 1 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup Karo Syrup (or honey or maple syrup)
  • 2/3 cup sugar * 2/3 cup vegetable oil
  • 2 tablespoons Aloha Soy Sauce
  • 1 bottle Nori Goma Furikake
Elephant's Toothpaste
At-Home Science Experiments: Elephant's Toothpaste. The foam your kids will create in this experiment resembles toothpaste being squeezed from a tube—just be sure they don't get it in their mouth!
Fruit Carving
3 Simple Fruit Carving Ideas For Kids, Fruit Carving Apple Step By Step
Activities for Pride Month
Celebrate Pride Month with 3 rainbow craft from the San José Public Library.  

Share what you're learning and how you’re having fun at home by tagging our Facebook and Twitter with the hashtag #FlattenTheCurveSJ. We appreciate your input on ways we can keep growing this page!

We all have a duty to stop the spread of coronavirus by staying at home. Thank you for doing your part to keep our community safe. Let's continue to build community through fun during shelter-in-place!

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