If you’re a regular here, you know that we’ve been studying clouds lately. We had so much fun with our earlier experiment, creating a cloud in a jar, that the kids couldn’t wait to make it rain with their very own shaving cream rain cloud the next day. Materials Needed to Create Shaving Cream Rain Cloud: Clear […]
How to Make a Cloud in a Jar
We’ve started a weather unit in homeschool, and this week we are focusing on clouds. After reading about how clouds form, we decided to do our own experiment and make a cloud in a jar. It was so much fun the kids begged to do it several times. Ready to impress the kids this week? […]
Dissolving Candy Experiment
As I mentioned in an earlier post, we have been having fun learning with candy! Since science is always a hit here, we’ve done several candy experiments. The easiest candy science experiment we have done this week was seeing which candy would dissolve first. We chose four candies to test: Skittles, Smarties, […]
Candy Learning Activities
This year Halloween was cold and wet! The kids wound up with tons of candy, though. (I think the weather made people extra generous.) Instead of letting all that candy go to waste (or eating it all at once), I’m planning a homeschool unit full of learning activities using candy. Over the past […]
2 Simple Science Experiments: Exploding Milk and Exploding Pepper
Kids love doing science experiments. (Ever let yours play in a Mad Scientist Lab?) Here are 2 experiments your kids will love: Exploding Milk Experiment and Exploding Pepper Experiment. Exploding Milk Experiment Pour a small amount of milk into a shallow container. Then have your child put a few drops of food coloring […]
