Archive for the ‘Experiments’ Category

Horse Craft

22
Mar

A couple of weeks ago Hailey came up with a bunch of topics that she wants to learn about.  The first one she picked is horses and ponies.  So, this week she is learning all about horses and ponies.  We started out by getting all sorts of books at the library.  I had a hard time coming up with art activities to do for horses… so here’s the first thing we did:

Hailey painted this page from DLTK.

Then she painted a toilet paper roll brown.

The completed horse from the side so you can see his tail.

Another view of the horse.

Then since horses eat grass- we planted some grass.

Hailey in our shed getting some dirt for our grass.

Adding just a little bit of grass seed 🙂

Day one of our grass growing experiment.

Hailey loves mazes- so I found some horse mazes for her to do.

Stop back to see what else we do this week.

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Fun Soap Experiment

18
Mar

I saw this over at Housing a Forest and we had to try it!

You’ll need a bar of Ivory soap and a microwave.  Before we did the experiment we tested to see if the Ivory soap would sink or float- it floats.  Then we tested the soap we usually use (Lever) and it sinks.  In case you are curious- Ivory soap floats because it has air pumped into it while it is being made.  But if you cut it in half you won’t find any air pockets.

So, get ready to stand by the microwave and watch this!  Put it in for 2 minutes.  Right around 20 seconds ours started to bubble.

This is the soap in the microwave.  It isn’t smoking, that’s just the reflection of light on the microwave door.

Hailey watching.  It had been in there for almost 2 minutes at this point.

When I opened the microwave door it shrunk a little bit, so it was actually a bit bigger than this.

This was such a fun experiment!

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More Shamrock Fun

17
Mar

Here are a couple of activities that we did with shamrocks:

We wanted to try making a crystal shamrock and thought it would be fun if we could make the crystals green.  I boiled 3 cups of water and we added 1/4 cup of borax (you can find it in the laundry aisle).  We used a green piece of water coloring to turn the water green because we were all out of green food coloring.

Then we used white pipe cleaners and shaped them (as well as we could) like shamrocks.  We tied them to a pencil and put them in the borax/water mixture.  I put it where it would not be disturbed and left it until the next day.

The crystal shamrock.  It did not end up looking very green (or a whole lot like a shamrock!), but it was fun anyways.

Then we made another shamrock.

Cut up some yarn- we used 2 different colors of green.

Then I mixed 1/2 cup of water and 1/4 cup of corn starch.  Put it on the stove and slowly heat it.  It starts out looking kind of milky and then it gets thick very quickly.  Once it is thick, remove it from the heat.

Mix your yarn into the glue mixture.

Ideally we would have used a shamrock shaped cookie cutter, but I could not find one anywhere.  So I used a sponge and did my best to cut out a shamrock shape.  Take the yarn and wipe the excess glue off using your fingers (this part is messy so be ready with some paper towels!).  Press into your shamrock shape.  I have it laying on wax paper.  Then I took another piece of wax paper to hold on the yarn while I removed the sponge.

Let it dry over night.

Our finished shamrock shape.

Shamrock Fun

15
Mar

This was definitely a project that was more about the process than the product.

I gave Hailey a shamrock shape and had her put glue all over it, however she wanted it.

Then we covered the glue with salt.

Then Hailey dipped a paint brush into green food coloring and touched it to the salt.  The green spread to all the areas near by.

Then she took the bottle of food coloring and put drops onto the salt.  It was really neat to watch it spread very quickly the areas around it.

The finished shamrock.  I definitely want to try this again but with a variety of colors of food coloring, allowing the colors to run together and mix.

We also did this counting activity from Musings of Me– Hailey had to count and then put the clothespin on the correct number.

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