Apple Fractions

Cut apples up to make fractions.

Apple Volcano

Such a fun experiment!!!

Cut a hole in an apple. Fill with baking soda, and then add vinegar. Have fun!!

Why do leaves change color?

Why do leaves change color??

This is one of Harry's favorite experiments. Leaves change color when the chlorophyll is stripped from them.

To do this, you can soak green in rubbing alcohol. By the soaking them in rubbing alcohol, you are extracting the chlorophyll to make the leaves change colors.

Soak the leaves in rubbing alcohol for about 40 minutes. Then, dip a coffee filter in it to find out what color the leaves will turn.

Here's a look at what we did...

The Glowing Egg Experiment!

This experiment is ridiculously awesome!!! Want to make an egg glow and bounce??? Read below.

Harry and I soaked an egg in a glass of vinegar (12oz) for 24 hours. Keep the glass on a table or counter. Once the 24 hours is up, pour out the vinegar, and put the egg into a new bowl.

The vinegar is an acid which reacts with the egg shell. The calcium carbonate in the egg shell dissolves in the vinegar. The membrane inside the shell remains intact, which makes the egg feel rubbery and squishy like a bouncy ball. 

The egg will also glows when you shine a flashlight on it now!! 

We had a lot of fun bouncing the egg, squishing it, and making it glow. Definitely a must try experiment!

"OO" Word practice

Good way to practice "OO" words! Cheerios!! :) :)

How do you clean pennies?!?!

How can you clean pennies??

We tried 3 different ways to clean pennies! 

1. Water 

2. Water w/soap

3. Vinegar w/salt

We placed 3 pennies in each glass and left them in there for about 10 minutes. To Harry's surprise, the vinegar and salt mixture cleaned the pennies the best! :)

Homemade Chicken Nuggets

Harry loves chicken nuggets, so we decided to make our own one night. Cool idea. He had fun helping us too.

Needed:

2 boneless skinless chicken breasts 

2 eggs 

Salt 

Paprika

1 cup rice chex cereal

1 cup cheese crackers 

What to do:

1. Cut the chicken into small nugget sized pieces. 

2. Crunch up the rice chex cereal and cheese crackers into tiny pieces. Place into a bowl.

3. Crack 2 eggs into a bowl.

4. Preheat oven 400°F. 

5. Dip the nuggets into the eggs, and then cover the nuggets with the rice chex and cheese cracker mixture. 

6. Place on a lightly greased cookie sheet. 

7. Bake for 20 minutes.

8. Cool and enjoy!!

 

Galaxy Play Dough

Galaxy Play Dough is fun and messy too!! 

Needed:

2 cups flour

1 1/2 cups water

1/2 cup glitter

Mix together and have fun!!

Puffy Paint

Puffy Paint is a fun and messy art project! What more could you want?! 

To make it, you need paint, glue, and shaving cream. 

Needed:

1 cup paint

2 cups glue 

2 cups shaving cream 

What to do:

1. Mix everything together in a bowl. 

2. Use paint brushes to paint pictures. 

**We made moons with the puffy paint.**

3. Pour onto the table for fun messy art and play!!

Melting Ice

Scoop salt onto ice cubes and watch the ice melt!!

Sink or Float?

Fun experiment for kids!

Paper Plate Banjo

For Wild West Week in my preschool class, we made paper plate banjos. We decorated them first, then glued cardboard pieces for the bank of neck, and glued yarn for the strings.

Fourth of July Crafts and Activities

I did tons of patriotic crafts and activities for the Fourth of July with Harry! He loves flags, so it was fun! We do similar things like this every year too. I also found some worksheets on Google, and we made patriotic cookies!