Friday December 18th, 2009
Friday, December 18th, 2009
Today’s Activity:
Fill up your buckets part way with water. Leave them out for the night to freeze. Sorry but this will take two days and I didn’t realize it until I tried it today.
THIS is what you will do tomorrow…after the water is frozen fill it up the rest of the way (not to the top though, we all know water expands when frozen). Once you have filled it with water take your plastic cups and fill them with rocks until they are sturdy on top of the layer of ice and then freeze them again. Once it is frozen remove the cup. This may be hard because it WILL be frozen into the ice. I recommend using a paper cup if you have it because you can use a blow dryer to melt the ice around it and plastic may melt. If that doesn’t work, just bring it inside and wait it out…you could possibly fill the cup with hot water to help control where the ice melts. Then remove the chunk of ice from the bucket and set it on your porch with a glowing tea light in it.
Option 2:
This is also a drawn out activity but I did this today as well. I ran into a cute Gingerbread House kit at Costco and Max has been begging to make one so we did that today too. Although I did most of the decorating (I know, it looks like a kid did it) the kids enjoyed watching me get very messy as well as eating the leftover frosting and candy.
Note:
Take the opportunity to teach your kids a little bit about the science of water turning to ice.
Evaluate:
Like I said above, this is going to take longer than I thought but other than that it was fun to do with the kids and I’m excited about it. Mine aren’t done yet and they won’t be until Saturday but I have seen these and I think they are AWESOME!
