Swollen Gummy Geckos

More gummy fun with the gummy gecko my 7-year-old begged me to buy (at the hardware store of all places!) With all of that gelatin, our gummy gecko absorbed lots of water. Though it didn't double in length like a gummy worm, when we left it in water it sure swelled up! (One interesting thing: since this gecko floated, unlike our gummy worms, it still had a few areas on the spine that didn't actually get wet. See the knobbly back breaching the water like a prehistoric aquatic dinosaur?)