science

"Mom, we want to make the volcano out of captain underpants' book."  Sigh, I was really hoping to save this for the weekend with their dad but the never ending questioning lead us to our science fun filled afternoon.
They were both very interested in the experiment and in the true fashion of experimenting kept asking,"well....what happens if we do this, add this or add more of this???"  The questions kept coming, I felt like Isaac was at least learning something and so we continued.  Some of these we did before last winter....and I have been told we will be doing more this weekend so stay tuned.

What started all of this was the activity that I originally had planned for the afternoon or at least (5 min) of the afternoon when working with toddlers melting crayons into new crayons.  We have soooooo many old & broken crayons that it was time to do something with them.  Learning about the melting process and the reformation of a new crayon brought Isaac's mind to his favorite book about captain underpants.  That is how the baking soda and vinegar were brought out of the cupboard.

placing of the crayons

end result: new round crayons

trying them out

baking soda and vinegar volcano

what happens if we put in blueberries.  They settled for cranberries.

answer: nothing, they do not explode which is what they were hoping would happen.

watching soap explode

what happens if we add the soap to the volcano, what happens when we shake it?

making elephant paste: dish soap, food coloring, baking soda, peroxide and yeast

They LOVED this one

It was pretty cool