Ice Breaker

I took a plastic container and filled it with water, then added some of Gavin's favorite toys/things.

I put in a wine cork, popsicle sticks, paper clips, buttons, dinosaur, pez dispencer, toy cars, etc...

It took about 2 days to freeze.

It looks super awesome!!

Gavin was so excited and confused when he saw it.  It actually made him frustrated because he wanted the toys out that instant! haha.  

I gave him his toy hammer so he can go at it!

I think the next step is to just put it in the bath tub and run some warm water and see what he does 

This was a lot of fun!

Having Fun with Science! Baking Soda and Vinegar!

We had a ton of fun today exploring with baking soda and vinegar!

The first experiment we did:

Glass

Place 1 tablespoon of baking powder in Glass

Then add vinegar!

it creates a cool fizz and rises to the top, and may even overflow like ours did :)

he really enjoyed this one, kept saying "more, more"!  

What I liked about it was that we just kept adding vinegar to keep the experiment flowing

The second experiment we did:

Baking dish

add baking soda

we used a little tupperware dish to add vinegar (then some food coloring)

took a medicinal dropper and filled it up with the red vinegar

and squeezed it into the pan!

another fun fizzing action!

He then pretty much figured out that he would have more fun just dumping the whole cup of vinegar into the dish than being patient with the dropper lol

The last experiment we did was blow up a balloon with this bottle!  (this one is my favorite!)

We took a bottle

filled it 1/3 way with vinegar

filled the balloon half full with baking soda

then when we were ready we tipped the balloon upward to release the baking powder into the bottle

and it grew and grew!

Our Failed Attempt at making homemade Flubber!

So I found this awesome project to make with Gavin..Home made Flubber!

We did one mixture of 1.5 cups of warm water, 2 cups of Elmer's Glue, and food coloring...

A second mixture of 3 tsp of Borax and 1 Cup of Warm Water...

after mixing those separately real well, we put mixture 1 into mixture 2....

and this is our final result!

Does not look like flubber...ugh...we did have fun "making" it...but Gavin thinks it's gross...lol...Maybe we'll try this again in a few years :)

Magnet + Pipe Cleaners Activity

This was a fun and easy activity to do!

We just cut up a bunch of pipe cleaners

added them to a 2 liter soda bottle

Got a magnet

and see the pipe cleaners stick to it!  :)