After listening to the podcast How To Turn Failures Into Robots from Big Life Kids Podcast S was inspired to create a boat out of a plastic bottle.
So we did a bit of brainstorming & then found this video on YouTube. So S wrote down the materials needed so we would be ready for the morning. Rice, 2 pencil, 2 foam, bottle.
Thanks to our family sending this link for Salt Dough Eggs, we had a fun activity for or week. This was a fun way to combine art, science, & math.
Mix up your favorite salt dough recipe. For this project, I used the following recipe:
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1/2 cup water
Stir together all three ingredients until a dough forms. Kneading the dough a couple times can help make it smoother.
Roll it out (I rolled mine to 1/4 inch thick) and cut out desired shapes.
*Don’t forget to make a hole if you want to be able to hang it. (A straw works great).
Bake at 250* for 2 hours.
A & S had fun helping measure and make the dough.
Today I rummaged through my craft drawers & found elastic and cotton fabric. So I headed over to Cricut’s Design Space program and got to cutting. I followed Lorrie Nunemaker’s tutorial here. Initially I attempted to cut the fabric with my rotary blade but my Cricut Maker was not recognizing it today. (Very frustrating). So I went the other route and cut the template out of cardstock and then A helped me cut out the pattern.
Today’s science lesson is brought to you by ice cream! When you find a box of Rock Salt in your cupboard you say, why not?!I am working on being more transparent with my lessons. So today that means actually spending some time on the science behind Ice Cream & not just saying “cooking is science.” (Note: we did the science aspect at the end after we got to eat it as they were more focused then on learning).The science behind the bag ice cream. Our recipe:
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