Here’s a cool chemistry experiment we did- reigniting a flame using hydrogen peroxide! So how does this work? Hydrogen Peroxide is H2O2- there are two hydrogens and two oxygens. When yeast is added to hydrogen peroxide, it speeds up the process of decomposing H2O2 into H20 (or water). You are able to see the oxygen […]
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For our art lesson today, we made snakes 🐍 out of tissue paper squares. The lesson was inspired by our Get Into Art: Animals library book. I also gathered our books about reptiles- snakes specifically- so we can learn more about them and recreate a snake that’s their favorite with of course some modifications due
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My oldest son loves chemistry. I started to introduce it into our homeschooling curriculum last year since he wanted to learn more. That’s one of the greatest things about homeschooling- we get to choose what we want to learn about based on interests, and then delve into that topic as much or as less as
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What do you use to clean coins? For this experiment, we used several solutions that could clean our coins. We used baking soda and water, vinegar, soap and water, ketchup, and orange juice. We let our coins sit for about 2 hours as we ran errands. I also setup a mini baking soda vinegar surprise
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To go along with our books about the ocean, I set up an oobleck activity that represented the 5 layers of the ocean (I made five colors of oobleck 😅) and added in our mini figurines from @safariltd to go along with each layer 🐋 🐠 🐙 🦈 🦀. My youngest really enjoyed this theme! As he
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There are days when the kids just don’t feel like doing school. And that’s totally okay! We play games instead and they truly don’t believe it’s school work, but it totally is!•Here’s a brief overview of the games for today’s post:•Sequence Numbers– this is an awesome game for addition and subtraction facts. Each player is
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What are minibeasts? Butterflies, dragonflies, scorpions, spiders, ladybugs, and praying mantises are all considered minibeasts and today we are going to start learning about them! My boys are definitely interested in bugs 🕷 and this was a perfect opportunity for us to learn about new topics that I haven’t introduced formally. We started first with
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Have you ever made a density tower using only sugar?!? Read on to learn more about this interesting science experiment! So to start off, this one took a lot of patience and it required you to measuring very accurately, but the outcome is so beautiful and it’s totally worth it! It took us about 30
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We are going to learn about oceans this week! One of my favorite things to do is set up a simple tray of sensory items for play. We are using play dough, play sand, seashells, and ocean themed figurines. To make it more education, I found a few of our ocean themed books to read
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Have you ever made a rain cloud in a jar? We love doing this science experiment! Usually it is done with shaving cream, but because we made soap soufflé with a bar of soap, this was the perfect “cloud” to put in a beaker and make it “rain”! What is soap soufflé? The best part
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