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For the second kid date night, Jason took M to dinner.
B and I stayed home with Tatie Kat to do science experiments. Both girls were super, super excited. I think kid date night is a raging success…
We had all our materials lined up on the kitchen counter for three experiments:
First up: color changing milk. We used milk and cream to see which would work faster Basically, we put 2% milk in one shallow dish and heavy cream in another shallow dish. Then we added one drop of each of green, yellow, red, and blue food coloring (around a center point, where each color represented the corner of a square). B loved how a soap dipped q-tip made all the colors go crazy! And we learned that the colors moved faster in the milk.
Here the are in the cream:
Next up: making a tornado using water and some dish detergent. We had three different typed of containers: a Tropicana OJ jug, a 2 liter soda bottle, and a pickle jar, and we asked the question of which container would make the best tornado. B picked the pickle jar and I picked the soda bottle. Unfortunately for me, the soda bottle was tinted green, so it made it very hard to see what kind of tornado resulted. We decided to just focus on the pickle jar, which made excellent tornadoes.
We put a little glitter in the pickle jar to try to help us see the tornado, but our glitter was too heavy. Next time we will use finer glitter.
Last up: exploding bags. A little water…a little vinegar…a little baking soda…a ziploc bag…and BOOM! We did this one until I ran out of vinegar, and even tried it in a gallon sized bag (had to do that one twice because the first time we only but enough “ammo” in to blow it up tight, but not enough to pop the bag).
We had a great time – B loved all the experiments! Both girls have already asked when the next kid date night is…
