tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18149086206676310152024-03-05T00:54:16.707-08:00Candy ExperimentsLoraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528996429356239139noreply@blogger.comBlogger464125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-71328432588154137182021-11-22T08:08:00.000-08:002021-11-22T08:08:00.142-08:00Happy Candy Thanksgiving!The M&Ms candy shell dissolves in water, but each solution is so dense that the colored fluids push against each other instead of mixing. Meanwhile, surface tension on the edges of the pool hold the water in as the color spreads.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
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Read on to find instructions for three favorite candy experiments with gummy worms.
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<h3>1.Growing Gummy Worms</h3>
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Try this <a href="/2016/11/incredible-growing-gummies.html" target="_blank">growing gummy worm science experiment</a> to turn gummy worms into monster gummy snakes. All you have to do is put them in water for two days. The gummy worms absorb water, and the gelatin in the gummy worms both traps the water molecules and holds the gummy worms together. The result? Two days later, you’ll have enormous gummy worms.
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You can also do this with gummy bears and some fruit snacks, as long as they contain gelatin.
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Shrink candy in this <a href="/2021/11/shrinking-gummy-worms.html" target="_blank" >gummy worm science fair experiment.</a> Prepare different solutions such as orange juice, different concentrations of salt water, and different concentrations of sugar water. Make a hypothesis (prediction) about which solution will shrink the gummy candy most, and test it for your science fair project. You can learn more about the science <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/documents/explorelabscience/Gummy_Bears_and_Osmosis_622469_7.pdf" target="_blank">here.</a>
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<h3>3. Dancing gummy worms</h3>
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For this experiment, slice several gummy worms in half lengthwise, soak them in baking soda water, and put them in a cup full of vinegar. The worms will start floating! (See <a href="https://www.scholastic.com/parents/school-success/learning-toolkit-blog/kid-friendly-science-dancing-frankenworms-experiment.html" target="_blank">this Scholastic article</a> for more details.)
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<h3>Enjoy Your Gummy Experiments!</h3>
Enjoy making gummy worms grow, shrink, and dance. And check <a href="/" target="_blank">candyexperiments.com</a> for more ways to destroy candy and learn science!
</div></div>Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04803070262759614865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-27818827406362821412021-11-15T13:07:00.001-08:002021-11-15T13:07:27.889-08:00Shrinking Gummy WormsShrink candy in this science experiment. You can even do this as a gummy worm science fair project.
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<li>Prepare several cups of water. Measure out salt or sugar and add to each cup. For instance, you might add one tablespoon of salt to one cup, two tablespoons of salt to a second cup, one tablespoon of sugar to a third cup, and so on. (Make sure to write down how much salt or sugar you added to each cup.)
<li>Make a hypothesis (prediction) about which solution will shrink the gummy candy most.
Put a gummy worm in each cup of water.
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Leave the worms in water for up to two days.
<li>Remove each worm and measure it to see how much it shrank or grew.
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You can do this experiment with gummy worms, gummy bears, or any type of gummy candy that contains gelatin.
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<h3>What's Happening:</h3>
<Br>Gummy worms contain water, which is what makes them chewy. When you put a gummy worm in a cup of salt water, the water flows out of the gummy worm into the salt water. This is because water naturally flows from a less concentrated solution (the gummy bear) to a more concentrated solution (the salt water). This process is called osmosis.
<br><Br><I>This experiment can be found in the book <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/p/book.html" target="_blank">Candy Experiments 2.</a></i>
Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04803070262759614865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-74122819917891029172021-10-28T17:51:00.000-07:002021-10-28T17:51:15.858-07:003 Fun Halloween Games<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzjiEatW0OvtNth1K_0iiI3lml1Zbf7tWWq-M8gMmKRA5IYvA6jziQCcZIGufWx9348vqPm_2p_zfN7bS5iOiurs-DbDNb1CE7dAjnpxYcUhjPloxQHe3lorlU-IYveh_NTJTQgfEScO1K/s929/DontEatPete.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="929" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzjiEatW0OvtNth1K_0iiI3lml1Zbf7tWWq-M8gMmKRA5IYvA6jziQCcZIGufWx9348vqPm_2p_zfN7bS5iOiurs-DbDNb1CE7dAjnpxYcUhjPloxQHe3lorlU-IYveh_NTJTQgfEScO1K/s320/DontEatPete.jpg"/></a></div>
Do you plan to skip trick-or-treating this Halloween? You don’t have to skip all the candy fun. This year, switch up your traditions and try some Halloween candy games to get your family together for a night of craziness and laughter.
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Here are three fun candy Halloween activities that will get your whole family celebrating.
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<h3>1. Don’t Eat Pete!</h3>
In the game <a href="https://www.parentmap.com/article/really-scary-how-to-handle-all-that-halloween-candy" target="_blank">“Don’t Eat Pete,”</a>
players get to eat candy on every turn. It’s a way to be silly, make some noise, and eat candy all at the same time.
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To play, draw a 3 x 3 grid on a piece of paper, and put a small candy, like an M&M or a jelly bean, in each square. Have a leader secretly choose a piece to be “Pete.” Then let the rest of the people take turns eating the candy. When someone eats the chosen piece, the leader yells “Don’t eat Pete!” and you start a new round.
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In the M&M Knife Game, each player gets to scoop up their own candy--with a knife! Fill a bowl with M&M’s, then pass around a butter knife and let each person try to scoop up a serving of candy. You’ll have a great time watching the tricks and techniques kids use to keep candy from sliding off the knife blade.
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<h3>3. Guess the Number of Candies--With Math!</h3>
Fill a small glass jar with candies and have people guess how many are in the jar. But they can use math to guess! <br><Br>
Use a scale to weigh an empty jar, weigh the full jar to find the weight of the candy, and weigh extra candy pieces to find their individual weight. Then divide the weight of the candy by the weight of one candy to find how many there are total.<br><Br>
You can also invite kids to count the pieces they see and guess how many more there are, or just guess wild numbers. After the game, give the candy to the winner--or let everyone eat it together!
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<h3>Keep Your Halloween Fun</h3>
This year, turning away from extra Halloween activities can help us turn towards our families instead. Dress up in costumes, carve your favorite Jack-o’-lanterns, and play the silliest Halloween games you can think of. Because Halloween’s not just about candy--it’s about having fun together.
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<i>Need more family Halloween activities? You can find candy science ideas on the <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/p/experiments.html" target="_blank">Candy Experiments</a> page.</I>
Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11033903414462187011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-23061951687961416692021-10-27T18:01:00.013-07:002021-10-28T17:34:54.938-07:004 Great Experiments for Destroying Halloween CandyOverloaded with Halloween candy? It’s time to get your candy bubbling, breaking, melting, freezing, and oozing with candy experiments.
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Here are four great ways to get your kids destroying candy and learning science at the same time.
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<h3>1. Acid Test Station</h3>
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Set up a table with bowls, water, and baking soda so that kids can dissolve candy and mix in baking soda to <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2009/09/acid-test.html" target="_blank">test it for acid.</a> Keep some vinegar nearby to make a lot of bubbles for a final show-stopper!<br><br>
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Encourage kids to tell you what else they notice. What does the mix smell like? What colors do they see? What happens when they mix the colors? Little kids have a lot of fun just unwrapping candy and dumping it in, so give them a bowl and a big spoon and watch what happens!
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<h3>2. Melting Station</h3>
When you melt candy, amazing things happen. Not only do you create beautiful pools of colored candy, you see secret ingredients like <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2009/09/oil-test.html" target="_blank">palm oil.</a>
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<Br>Try melting candy on a microwavable plate to reveal secret ingredients or have melting races. Or cover a baking sheet with aluminum foil and put on several different kinds of candy to see how they melt and which survives the longest!
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<h3>3. Sink and Float Station</h3>
Can you <a href="https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/2013/01/11/density-in-action-can-you-sink-a-marshmallow/" target="_blank">sink a marshmallow?</a> Can you float a piece of taffy? Smash the air bubbles out of a 3 Musketeers bar, or unwrap floating candy to remove trapped air pockets?<Br>
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Prepare this station by pouring out big bowls of water. You may also want to put out a cutting board or mat so that kids can cut and smash candy as they experiment.
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What about all extra candy that no one’s going to eat? Set up a Creation Station and let your kids just play around. They can stick candy together to make art, braid Red Vines, add M&M’s eyeballs, or try <a href="https://teachpreschool.org/2012/01/20/mixing-up-bright-and-colorful-mm-paint-in-preschool/" target="_blank">painting with M&M's.</a>
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<h3>Enjoy Your Crazy Candy Experiments Lab!</h3>
Once you've got your laboratory set up, your kids will have lots of activities to choose from. So get out the candy, stand back, and let your kids go crazy!
Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11033903414462187011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-74090592420412988232021-09-23T17:14:00.000-07:002021-09-23T17:14:09.688-07:00<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left; font-size: small;">Drop a Warhead in baking soda water, and bubbles erupt. Leave a Skittle in water, and the S floats to the surface. Melt a Starburst, and shiny oil spots form. You're doing candy experiments--science experiments with candy.</div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left; font-size: small;">Melt Halloween candy. Dissolve Valentine hearts. Float Easter Peeps. Or let your kids create their own candy science experiments.</div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left; font-size: small;">Candy experiments. All candy. All science. All fun.</div><br /><div><a href="http://candyexperimentsblog.blogspot.com/p/experiments.html" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BY9yX8HTPtA/TI24xGTjDZI/AAAAAAAAAFg/1D2xJv4oNLg/s640/montages+copy.jpg" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; font-size: small;"><i>As seen in Family Fun, Parents, Mothering Magazine, Highlights, the Chicago Tribune, ParentMap, Miami Family, and <a href="http://www.redtri.com/candy-experiments-does-tricks-with-treats" target="_blank">The Red Tricycle</a><br /></i><br /></div><br /><a name="BLOG"></a>Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528996429356239139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-18127759650139512902021-04-03T16:54:00.004-07:002021-04-03T16:55:39.976-07:006 Ways to Destroy Easter Peeps With Candy ExperimentsWhat's more fun than eating Peeps? Destroying them with candy experiments!
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Here are some favorite Peeps experiments from around the internet.
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<h3><a href="https://youtu.be/nMmyQF35e8U" target="_blank">1. Peeps Duel</a> </h3>
Have your Peeps duel each other. Stick a toothpick in each Peeps marshmallow and put two in the microwave facing each other. The first Peep to touch the other with a toothpick wins the duel. <br>
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<h3><a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2010/04/stale-peeps.html" target="_blank">2. Testing Stale Peeps</a> </h3>
What can you do with old Peeps? Well, they won’t win any jousting contests.
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When you microwave marshmallow Peeps, the water trapped inside turns to steam while the gelatin softens, causing the marshmallow to expand. But if the Peeps dry out and go stale, there’s less water to help them expand. That’s why stale Peeps don’t get nearly as big in the microwave--and why they won’t win the jousts.
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Check out this <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/science/a-peep-jousting-experiment/" target="_blank">Smithsonian video</a> to learn more.
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<h3><a href="www.youtube.com/embed/R5nPU7JORRo" target="_blank">3. Smashing Peeps with Dry Ice</a></h3>
Want to smash Peeps with a hammer? Put them in a cooler with some dry ice. The dry ice freezes the water and gelatin, making your Easter candy as brittle as ice.
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<h3><a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2021/03/growing-and-shrinking-marshmallows.html" target="_blank">4. Giant Peeps, Shrinking Peeps</a></h3>
When you put marshmallows inside a sealed container and vacuum out the air, they grow! Let the air out again, and they collapse.
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<h3><a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2021/04/sinking-peeps-and-marshmallows.html" target="_blank">5. Sink a Peeps</a></h3>
Peeps float because they're less dense than water--all those air bubbles spread the sugar out. But if you smash the Peeps to destroy the air bubbles and make it smaller, you can teach it to swim!
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<h3>6. Bleach the Peeps</h3>
Peeps are covered with colored sugar, which dissolves in water. But because the Peeps marshmallow contains gelatin, the marshmallow part doesn’t dissolve. Place the Peeps in water to create stripes!<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirH7U_ZQOqx4aTW-FAVxE5fBwKQIr1-OgGXijbVjVWmpoo5Hfr52sdZci6Px8S1fE9tg2WC5g6iV9dmjMs50aJSwrAzi7at50XijOjl4wOQL-tEAW9oS2JxgNkYhOaUg8nqM4k9-g62NAh/s2048/CandyExp.StripedPeeps.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: left; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="1884" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirH7U_ZQOqx4aTW-FAVxE5fBwKQIr1-OgGXijbVjVWmpoo5Hfr52sdZci6Px8S1fE9tg2WC5g6iV9dmjMs50aJSwrAzi7at50XijOjl4wOQL-tEAW9oS2JxgNkYhOaUg8nqM4k9-g62NAh/s320/CandyExp.StripedPeeps.JPG"/></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<h3>Ultimate Destruction!</h3>
To see how the scientists destroy Peeps, watch <a href="https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2017/04/watch_marshmallow_peeps_endure_1.html" target="_blank">these videos</a> from the <a href="https://greatscience.com/" target="_blank">Great Lakes Science Center.</a> See Peeps dissolve in sulferic acid, vaporize in molten chlorate, and get electrocuted!
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Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11033903414462187011noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-52617307428331421412021-04-03T16:17:00.002-07:002021-04-03T16:36:42.276-07:00Sinking Peeps and MarshmallowsThis Peeps candy experiment sends marshmallows diving to the bottom of a bowl!
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What you need:
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<li>Peeps marshmallow candies
<li>Container of water
<li>Cutting board and cornstarch (optional)
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What to do:
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<li>Smash the Peeps marshmallow by rolling it between your palms or flattening it against a hard surface.
<br>(Hint: sprinkle a cutting board with cornstarch and roll the Peeps in cornstarch to keep it from becoming too sticky as you smash it. You may want to flatten it with a rolling pin.)
<li>Roll the marshmallow into a ball to make it less buoyant.
<li>Drop the smashed Peeps in water.
<li>Does the candy sink?
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What's happening:
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<brWhen you put an object in water, the object pushes down and the water pushes back up. If the object can push aside (displace) enough water, it floats. A marshmallow floats because it's less dense than the water--the air bubbles spread out the sugar so that it's light and puffy.
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To sink a Peeps marshmallow, you must make it denser by making it smaller. If you smash it to remove air bubbles and make the marshmallow more compact, you can make it denser than the water. Then it will sink.
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Play a game with your friends to see who is strong enough to sink a marshmallow. Anyone who manages to sink a marshmallow becomes a marshmallow champion!Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11033903414462187011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-64667423110834023202021-03-31T15:32:00.000-07:002021-03-31T15:32:15.769-07:00Growing and Shrinking MarshmallowsMake marshmallows shrink and grow in vacuum chamber! You should be able to do this with a kitchen vacuum pack gadget such as a Seal-a-Meal.
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What you need:
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<li>Vacuum seal container, such as a Seal-a-Meal
<li>Marshmallows or Peeps candy
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What to do:
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<li>Place the marshmallows or Peeps in the sealed container.
<li>Attach the vacuum.
<li>Start the vacuum and watch your marshmallows expand.
<li>Turn off the vacuum. Do the marshmallows collapse?
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What's happening:
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Marshmallows contain tiny air bubbles. The air inside the marshmallows pushes out, while the air around the marshmallows pushes in. When air is pumped out of the container, reducing the air pressure, the air bubbles inside the marshmallow push outwards and cause the marshmallow to grow.
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As the marshmallow grows, the air bubbles inside start to rupture. When you turn off the vacuum and allow air back in, the marshmallow shrinks back to normal size. But since some of the air bubbles have been destroyed, it wrinkles and collapses even further.Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11033903414462187011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-74094515260414207882021-03-25T11:47:00.000-07:002021-03-25T11:47:20.631-07:00Sugar and MarketingSince I'm so interested in candy's science and history, I both enjoyed and was horrified by the book <i>Sugar: The World Corrupted</i> by James Walvin.
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I learned that the European desire for sugar fueled the creation of plantations and slavery in the Americas. After slavery 'officially' ended in America after the Civil War, the sugar industry continued to use workers in conditions resembling slavery. These included indentured Indian laborers in British colonies; indentured Chinese and Japanese workers in the Carribean and South America, and poorly paid migrant workers in Florida.
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Now our dependence on sugar has caused obesity rates to skyrocket. We're the targets and victims of marketing campaigns whose scope we can hardly imagine.
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Amount of money spent on advertising to the young:
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<li>$792 million on breakfast cereals
<li>$549 million on soft drinks
<li>$330 million on snacks
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"Only the automobile industry spent more money on advertising than the US food industry--understandably, perhaps, when we realise that 12.5 percent of all American consumer spending goes on food."
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<a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/164313230X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=164313230X&linkCode=as2&tag=candyexper-20&linkId=4515fcbba6893ea3c4dd5e770b986272"><i>Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity</i></a> by James Walvin, 2018 Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11033903414462187011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-56033999660593734922021-03-08T16:40:00.001-08:002021-03-08T16:40:05.258-08:00Cotton Candy
After a week in a slightly humid kitchen, this:
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flattens into this:
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which, close up, looks like this:
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Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800100162841966432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-52862027450290415012021-02-13T22:49:00.002-08:002021-02-13T22:49:54.160-08:0011 Fun Valentine Science ExperimentsLooking for a kid-friendly way to enjoy Valentine’s Day? Try some Valentine science activities at home!
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Here’s a roundup of eleven fun Valentine experiments to do with your kids.
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<li><h3>Hearts Bobbing</h3>
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<a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2009/10/dancing-valentine-hearts-candy.html">
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At <a href="www.candyexperiments.com," target="_blank">www.candyexperiments.com,</a> I love playing with candy. That’s why it was so fun to come up with a <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2009/10/dancing-valentine-hearts-candy.html" target="_blank">conversation hearts experiment</a> that makes the candy dance!
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<li><h3>Foaming Elephant Toothpaste</h3>
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Add some pink or red food coloring to make <a href="https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/elephants-toothpaste/" target="_blank">Steve Spangler's foaming experiment</a> a Valentine favorite! Not only do kids get to play with foamy bubbles, it’s an exothermic reaction that teaches chemistry.<Br>
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<li><h3>Foaming Marshmallow Hearts</h3>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2021/02/a-fountain-of-valentine-hearts.html" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: left; "><img alt="" border="0" height="200" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2019" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH_FSJmMzjoGPVldsT678hGdmH82a_bXkMwwe-itJ7L5iGfuGlCLhu3WTQlvCuV7-g0W44s-6sIZv9kWpFB3hWyDmNBRMwgOGV6uH3cDmsJl2IND8GB-CbnL0u_sTeC5F631_WFb2LWy6B/s200/DSC_7637+%25281%2529.JPG"/></a></div>
Here’s another way to make Valentine foam: <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2021/02/a-fountain-of-valentine-hearts.html" target="_blank">microwave marshmallow hearts</a> in a bottle. In just a short time, the melted marshmallow will start fountaining out of the bottle. (Caution--hot!)
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<li><h3>Valentine Slime</h3>
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Need a Valentine experiment that keeps your kids busy for a few minutes? This Little Bins For Little Hands activity shows how to make some <a href="https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/valentines-slime-sensory-play-science-activity/">fun Valentine slime.</a>
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<li><h3>Catapult for Conversation Hearts</h3><Br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://frogsandsnailsandpuppydogtail.com/catapult-science-kids/" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: left;"><img alt="" border="0" height="200" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="528" src="http://frogsandsnailsandpuppydogtail.com/wp-content/uploads/catapult-science-for-kids-can-you-break-my-heart-676x1024.jpg"/></a></div>
Here’s a way to try physics in action from the Frogs Snails and Puppy Dog Tails blog. <a href="http://frogsandsnailsandpuppydogtail.com/catapult-science-kids/" target="_blank">Build a catapult</a> to launch hearts across the room!
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<li><h3>Invisible Valentine Messages</h3>
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Find instructions at Red Ted Art for writing Valentine messages with <a href="https://www.redtedart.com/valentines-day-cards-science-secret-messages/" target="_blank">invisible ink!</a>
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<li><h3>Make Your Own Stethoscope</h3>
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Here’s a creative way from Science-sparks to <a href="https://www.science-sparks.com/make-a-stethoscope/" target="_blank">make your own stethoscope</a> and listen for heartbeats as you teach your kids what a heart really does.
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<li><h3>Raining Hearts</h3>
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Watch hearts sink through different solutions in this <a href="https://inspirationlaboratories.com/raining-hearts-viscosity-experiment/" target="_blank">experiment about viscosity</a> in action from Inspiration Laboratories.
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<li><h3>Test Sour Candy</h3>
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Dissolve your candy and add baking soda to see <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2009/09/acid-test.html" target="_blank">which ones contain acid</a>.
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<li><h3>Find the Sour Ingredients</h3>
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This mom at Inspiration Laboratories let her kid <a href="https://inspirationlaboratories.com/valentine-candy-science-candy-heart-ingredients-experiment/" target="_blank">test each ingredient</a> that makes up conversation hearts to find out which one causes the baking soda to react.
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Poke a pin right through a <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2017/02/pierced-hearts-and-valentine-links.html" target="_blank">conversation heart</a>--without breaking it!
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Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11033903414462187011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-52883909006992800082021-02-13T19:01:00.000-08:002021-02-13T19:01:16.067-08:00A Fountain of Valentine HeartsWith marshmallows, bottle, and a microwave, you can create a Valentine's day fountain!
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What you need:
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<li>marshmallow hearts, such as Peeps
<li>empty plastic water bottle
<li>parchment paper (optional)
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What to do:
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<li>Slide the marshmallows into the bottle. (You may want to roll each marshmallow up in parchment paper to slide it inside the bottle, then pull the parchment paper away.
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<li>Microwave the bottle, watching closely to make sure it doesn't get too hot.
<li>Watch the marshmallow come fountaining out of the bottle!
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What's happening:
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As the marshmallows heat up, the gelatin softens while the air bubbles expand, making the marshmallows grow bigger. Since the marshmallows are trapped in a bottle with a narrow opening, the expanding marshmallow gets forced through the narrow bottle top, creating the fountain effect.
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Good news for chocolate lovers! An analysis of several studies, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, found association between chocolate consumption and a lower risk of coronary artery disease.
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The study pointed to consumption at least once a week, but didn't say what kind. Previous studies show the best benefit comes from eating chocolate that's more than 70% dark. Of course, the sugars and fats in chocolate, especially products like cookies, can lead to worse health, so don't go overboard if you make chocolate your new health food!
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<a href="https://www.nutritionletter.tufts.edu/subscriber-only/more-science-that-chocolate-may-be-good-for-your-heart" target="_blank">"More Science that Chocolate May Be Good for Your Heart," Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter, Jan 2021
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<a href="https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Press-Office/Press-releases/Chocolate-is-good-for-the-heart" target="_blank">"Chocolate is good for the heart," European Society of Cardiology press release July 22, 2020
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<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2047487320936787?journalCode=cprc">"Association between chocolate consumption and risk of coronary artery disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis," European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, July 22, 2020</a>
Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04803070262759614865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-6728008271358387362020-12-01T19:34:00.001-08:002020-12-01T19:34:01.660-08:00Candy Canes vs. Sugar Which melts faster, candy canes or pure sugar? To find out, place a candy cane and a lump of sugar on a foil-lined pan. Then heat in the oven at 300 F for 5-10 minutes. Which one melts first?<br />
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Table sugar melts at about 360 F.Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528996429356239139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-35607902735739269802020-10-30T15:28:00.003-07:002021-11-15T11:43:19.342-08:0011 Favorite Candy ExperimentsDo you need a fun way for kids to celebrate Halloween and learn science? If so, try some of these candy science experiments to get your candy bubbling, spouting, sparking, sinking, and separating!
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Here’s a list of eleven favorite candy experiments from all over the internet.
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<h3>1. Sour Candy Bubble Test</h3>
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Sour candy contains acid, which causes the sour taste. With the <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2009/09/acid-test.html" target="_blank">Acid Test candy experiment,</a>
You can test for the acid by dissolving the candy and adding baking soda to make a bubbling reaction.
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You can do this with any type of candy, but it’s especially fun with Pixy Stix and Warheads!
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<h3>2. Floating M&Ms</h3>
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Need a Halloween magic trick? <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2009/09/floating-ms-and-ss.html" target="_blank">Drop some M&M’s</a>
in a glass of water and watch the letters. In a few minutes, the M’s will start floating!
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<h3>3. Marshmallow Sink</h3>
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Can you sink a marshmallow? Take the <a href="https://www.parenting.com/activities/stem/easy-science-fair-projects/" target="_blank">Marshmallow Challenge
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to find out!
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A marshmallow contains tiny air bubbles, which puff it out to make it less dense than water. To make it sink, you must make the marshmallow denser than water by making it smaller. Smash the marshmallow to break the air bubbles, then roll it into a ball. If you make it small enough, it will sink.
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<h3>4. Life Saver Lights</h3>
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For this experiment, which the Exploratorium calls <a href="https://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/candy/activity-lightning.html" target="_blank">“Lighting In Your Mouth,”</a>
you need a dark room, a mirror, and a pack of wintergreen LifeSavers. Stand in front of the mirror and start chewing the LifeSavers. You will see sparks of light as the energy from the chewing motion rips electrons off of the sugar molecules, then recombines them to release flashes of light.
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This also works with other wintergreen sugar candies, such as Altoids.
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<h3>5. Candy Color Separation</h3>
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<a href="https://www.justcandy.com/pages/candy-experiments-color-chromatography" target="_blank">Chromatography </a>
lets you separate candy colors so you can see what dyes have been mixed together.
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To do chromatography, cut a strip of paper from a coffee filter. Wet a colored candy, such as a brown M&M, and dab a spot of color near the bottom of the paper. Stand up the paper up in glass with a half-inch of water, and watch as the colors rise up the paper.
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<h3>6. Chocolate Bloom</h3>
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When<a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2009/09/chocolate-bloom.html%20" target="_blank"> chocolate blooms,</a>
the cocoa butter begins to separate from the cocoa solids. Eventually the cocoa butter can form complex patterns of white crystals.
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<h3>7. Dancing Gummy Frankenworms</h3>
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For the <a href="https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/kids-science-dancing-frankenworms/" target="_blank">Dancing Gummy Frankenworms experiment</a>, you can make gummy worms dance by slicing them into strips, soaking them in baking soda water, then dropping them in vinegar. The bubbles will hold the pieces up so they dance!
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<h3>8. Giant Gummies</h3>
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Make your gummy worms grow to double their length with the <a href="http://smmartideas.blogspot.com/2013/01/smmart-science-guest-post-loralee.html">Giant Gummies experiment.</a>
Just put them in water and wait for two days to see how big they get.
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<h3>9. Bubbling Pop Rocks</h3>
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To find the secret ingredient in<a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2009/09/pop-rocks.html" target="_blank"> Pop Rocks</a>,
put them in water and watch what happens. As the candy dissolves, it releases tiny trapped air bubbles that float to the surface.
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<h3>10. Melting Races</h3>
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If you really want to see what your candy is made of, cover a cookie sheet with aluminum foil, line up different types of candy, and heat in the oven at 300 degrees to <a href="https://247moms.com/2012/01/candy-experiments-for-the-new-year/" target="_blank">see what happens. </a>
For instance, you’ll see oil spots form on Starbursts, candy bars melt away from their fillings, and <a href="https://boyslife.org/hobbies-projects/funstuff/143815/conduct-7-sweet-science-experiments-with-candy/" target="_blank">taffy turn translucent</a>
as the air bubbles contained inside rise to the surface and disappear.
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<h3>11. Mentos Coke Geyser </h3>
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One of the internet’s favorite candy experiments, the <a href="https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/original-mentos-diet-coke-geyser/" target="_blank">Mentos Coke geyser</a> lets you send coke spouting into the air.
Try it with Diet Coke, and wear clothes that can get wet!
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For more fun ideas on how to experiment with candy, check out the candyexperiments.com <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/p/experiments.html" target="_blank">experiments page!</a>
Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11033903414462187011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-5418314924087321992020-10-13T16:23:00.014-07:002021-11-02T09:30:41.817-07:005 Best Candies for Halloween Candy ExperimentsAre you buying candy for Halloween? Don’t forget to prepare for Halloween candy
experiments! You can do dozens of different experiments if you buy just five types of candy.
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Read on to learn the five best candies for candy experiments.
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<h3>1. M&Ms</h3>
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M&Ms make the perfect candy for color experiments. Try separating brown M&M
dye into rainbows with with <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2010/09/color-separation-chromatography.html" target="_blank">chromatography</a>, or mix colors together to <a href="https://www.mamajenn.com/blog/color-wheel-candy-experiments/" target="_blank">make new shades.</a>
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You can also use M&M’s to explore the <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2011/03/experiment-cold-water-currents.html" target="_blank">mechanics of ocean currents,</a> or <a href="https://eduref.org/lessons/mathematics/prb0005" target="_blank">graph data sets. </a>
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<h3>2. Skittles </h3>
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Use Skittles for candy color experiments, and also for melting
experiments. Float the S right off the candy with <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2009/09/floating-ms-and-ss.html" target="_blank">Floating Letters,</a>
which works for
M&Ms, too. Try chromatography with purple Skittles. Explore density with the
<a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2009/09/density-rainbow.html" target="_blank">Skittles Density Rainbow,</a>
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You can also <a href="https://www.parenting.com/activities/stem/easy-science-fair-projects/" target="_blank">melt Skittles into clamshells</a>
or compare
the difference in dissolving them with <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2009/09/dissolving-hotcold.html" target="_blank">hot or cold water.</a>
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<h3>3. Warheads </h3>
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Warheads make the best candy for the <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2009/09/acid-test.html%20" target="_blank">Sour Candy Acid Test
experiment.</a>You can also
make awesome <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2016/09/diving-warheads.html" target="_blank">candy diving bottles,</a> or Cartesian divers.
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These experiments work with Toxic Waste candy, too.
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You can grow monster gummies in water with the <a href="https://www.parenting.com/activities/stem/easy-science-fair-projects%20" target="_blank">Incredible Growing
Gummy Worm experiment.</a>
Just leave a gummy candy in water for two days, and watch it grow to twice its original length!
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You can also use gummy worms to learn about osmosis
<a href="https://boyslife.org/hobbies-projects/funstuff/143815/conduct-7-sweet-science-experiments-with-candy/"</a>
by soaking them in salt water. <br /><br />
<h3>5. Taffy </h3>
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Taffy has a secret ingredient--tiny air bubbles. You can learn more about
these air bubbles by dissolving the taffy and watching the bubbles float to the
surface, or by melting it to <a href="https://boyslife.org/hobbies-projects/funstuff/143815/conduct-7-sweet-science-experiments-with-candy/" target="_blank">turn it transparent.</a>
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Taffy’s also great for making <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2009/09/sticky.html" target="_blank">sticky candy creations</a>--encourage your kids to mix
up their discards and make sculptures and landscapes.
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<h3>Prepare for Candy Science Experiments </h3>
When you’re buying your candy this year,
don’t just think about what kids like to eat. Get the best candies for playing
with color, density, stretching, and stickiness. You’ll be well-stocked to
create your own candy experiments science lab! For more ideas on destroying
candy for science, check out the <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/p/experiments.html" target="_blank">Experiments page</a>
at www.candyexperiments.com!
Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11033903414462187011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-19307742374937513612020-10-06T13:09:00.001-07:002020-10-06T14:40:43.401-07:00Prepping for Halloween in Quarantine? Try These Halloween Activity Ideas to Keep Halloween Safe--and Fun!
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“Is Halloween cancelled?”
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That’s probably the question on every kid’s mind right now. It’s just not safe to run around the neighborhood
grabbing treats out of shared bowls. So how can you show your kids a good time while keeping everybody safe?<br><Br>
Read on for some fun Halloween activities that will keep your kids excited about the season.
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Join a Costume Parade<br></h3>
If your kids love dressing up, why not <a href="https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/holidays/halloween-ideas/g33796718/quarantine-halloween-ideas/" target="_blank">create or join a costume parade?</a>
All the kids can dress up and march (socially distanced) down the street, through a park, or around a parking lot to display costumes. It’ll give kids a way to show off, and also get out of the house!
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Halloween Zoom Party<br></h3>
Even if you’re not meeting in person, hop online to show off everybody’s costumes! Friends, coworkers, or grandparents will enjoy seeing your family’s fabulous outfits.
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Neighborhood Pumpkin Carving Contest<br></h3>
Invite everyone in the neighborhood to decorate and set out pumpkins for a <a href="https://www.connecticutchildrens.org/coronavirus/ways-to-celebrate-halloween-during-covid-19-even-in-quarantine/" target="_blank">jack-o-lantern contest</a>. Participants can vote for winners online, or just walk up and down the street to admire everybody’s work.
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Decorate Masks<br></h3>
Since the face mask is this year’s new fashion statement, why not make it part of the costume? Try creating a mask that matches your outfit, or decorate a fun Halloween mask to wear on its own.
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If you don’t sew, don’t worry. The <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/how-to-make-cloth-face-covering.html" target="_blank">CDC has instructions</a> for making a quick and easy mask with a piece of cloth and two rubber bands. Let the kids choose fabric and decorate it with fabric pens to make their own Halloween statements.
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(Note: A costume mask won’t protect kids from germs, so the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/holidays.html" target="_blank">CDC recommends</a> making a cloth mask a part of your costume. Don’t let kids wear a costume mask and a fabric mask at the same time, as it can make it hard to breathe.)
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Make Creative Costumes From Household Items<br></h3>
Since your kids don’t have to impress anybody, make this the year to get creative. What do you have lying around the house that someone can turn into a really fabulous costume? Scarves, hats, old coats, letter jackets, cast-off skirts, oversized shirts, and bath-towel capes can turn your kid into a superhero, a movie actor, a monster, or something you’ve never imagined.
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Mad Scientist Candy Lab<br></h3>
<a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/p/candy-experiment-parties.html" target="_blank">Create a laboratory</a> for destroying candy and learning science lessons. <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2009/09/acid-test.html" target="_blank">Try candy experiments like throwing Warheads into baking soda water</a> to make it bubble, stretching out taffy like ectoplasm, or creating slime by microwaving gummy worms and letting them cool. You can melt, sink, crush, break, soak, and stir--who knows what the kids will discover!
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Choose Your Favorite Treats<br></h3>
If you’re not buying 10-pound bags of candy and handing out pieces to every kid in town, why not let your kids choose this year’s treats? This is the year for gourmet chocolate, sour bombs, exotic fruits, or whatever your family really wants. Buying the candy yourself instead of sending kids around the neighborhood also helps you limit the amount of sugar your kids get for Halloween.
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Trick-or-Treat Candy Hunt<br></h3>
If you don’t go out trick-or-treating, make the hunt happen at home instead. Hide candy or prizes in Easter eggs, and <a href="https://www.retailmenot.com/blog/ideas-for-celebrating-halloween-during-covid-19.html" target="_blank">add glow sticks</a> to make them glow in the dark!
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You can also create a scavenger hunt or a treasure map to get kids searching all around the house.
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Old-Fashioned Halloween Treats<br></h3>
Try celebrating Halloween the way your great-grandparents did by making the treats yourselves. Kids can mix and shape <a href="https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/239973/festive-jell-o-popcorn-balls/" target="_blank">Jell-O popcorn balls</a> without having to boil sugar, and <a href="https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/67636/grandmas-taffy/" target="_blank">pulling taffy</a> will get kids involved and teach them about candy chemistry at the same time.
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Keep Halloween Fun<br></h3>
Don’t let the current craziness keep you from enjoying Halloween. If you get creative and plan out some new Halloween activities, you can celebrate Halloween 2020-style and keep the day fun for everyone.
Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11033903414462187011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-76174766810824499842020-10-04T13:10:00.004-07:002020-10-04T13:28:10.331-07:00Where's the Butter in This Tricky Popcorn Label?
One of my favorite "candy experiments" is reading labels to <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2010/09/find-hidden-candy.html" target="_blank">Find Hidden Candy</a> and other labeling tricks like this.
This Healthy Pop popcorn calls its flavor "Butter & Sea Salt," with no artificial ingredients. <br><br>
But where's the butter? <br>
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Because the second ingredient listed in the nutrition label is actually palm oil.
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Apparently it's one of the "natural flavors" allowed under the <a href="https://www.fda.gov/food/food-labeling-nutrition/use-term-natural-food-labeling">FDA guidelines.</a> There's so little of it, they don't even list it as an ingredient!
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<a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2016/09/lucky-charms-sugar-and-general-mills.html">
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And palm oil, though not listed on the front, isn't an artificial preservative, flavor, color, or dye. So this tricky label isn't lying--it's just not telling the truth.
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If you want to see some more misleading labels, check out these examples:
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<li><a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2020/01/cheating-cheesy-cheetos-from.html" target="_blank">Cheating "Cheesy Cheetos"</a>
<li><a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/search/label/nutrition" target="_blank">Yogurt Raisins: A Healthy Airplane Snack?</a>
<li><a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2016/09/lucky-charms-sugar-and-general-mills.html" target="_blank">Lucky Charms, Sugar, and the General Mills Journey
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</ul>
Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11033903414462187011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-31691022144064706352020-09-09T16:37:00.003-07:002021-11-15T11:50:49.080-08:00Incredible Growing Gummies!Gelatin contains long protein molecules that tangle together to trap water molecules. Because gelatin absorbs so much water, candy containing gelatin acts like a sponge. That’s what makes “The Incredible Growing Gummy Worm” one of our favorite candy experiments.<br><Br>
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<i>Soaking gummy candy for two days can make it grow twice as long. As the gelatin molecules form bonds, cross-linking like a jungle gym, they trap water molecules between them. </I>
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To turn a gummy worm into a “gummy snake,” fill a flat dish with water and drop in a gummy worm (or several). Set aside a dry gummy worm for later comparison. Check back every few hours to see your gummy worm growing, since it can continue to absorb water for up to two days.
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Once your gummy worm has grown to its full length, you can perform tests to see how much it grew.
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<li>Use a ruler to measure the length of the giant gummy worm, then measure the dry gummy worm and compare.
<li>Weigh it and compare its weight with a dry gummy worm. Be gentle, because a water-engorged gummy worm becomes fragile and splits easily, like Jell-O. Try moving it by tipping most of the water out of the dish, laying down some plastic wrap, and sliding the gummy worm onto the plastic to weigh it. Then weigh a dry gummy worm and subtract it from the weight of the giant gummy worm. The remainder is the weight of all the water that was absorbed.</ul>
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You can also try this activity with other gummy candies, like gummy bears, fruit snacks, or Life Savers Gummies. Check the ingredient labels to make sure that your experimental gummies do contain gelatin. Gummy candies without gelatin, like Swedish Fish, don’t absorb extra water. Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800100162841966432noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-20783209258101113682020-06-30T16:52:00.000-07:002020-06-30T16:52:19.059-07:00Smart Start cereal versus Froot Loops
What kind of a Smart Start is Kellogg's Smart Start cereal? One with more sugar than Kellogg's Froot Loops!
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Froot Loops cereal has "only" 24% sugar, while Smart Start cereal contains a whopping 36%.
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Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11033903414462187011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-67410092924823240402020-04-30T15:15:00.001-07:002020-05-04T12:15:19.736-07:00Smashing Peeps Candy ExperimentPut candy in a cooler with dry ice, then smash it to smithereens!<br /><br />
When you freeze a marshmallow, the molecules get locked in place and the marshamallow becomes a brittle solid. Smash it, and it breaks into fragments, just like any other piece of ice.<br /><br />
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From <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/p/book.html">Candy Experiments 2</a>Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11033903414462187011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-39209404290678871092020-01-27T12:14:00.000-08:002020-01-27T12:14:27.949-08:00Cheating "Cheesy" Cheetos (from PureFoodKids)Cheetos aren't supposed to be health food. They're just crunchy fun.
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But they're made with real cheese--that sounds healthy, right?
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Actually, there's more salt than cheese. More citric acid than cheese. There's even more yeast extract than cheese.
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There's also more sugar than cheese...what? But the label listed 0 grams of sugar!
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In fact, FDA rules state that any ingredient weights be rounded to the nearest whole number. So if a product contains less that 0.5 grams of something, it can be rounded down to 0. Once serving of Cheetos might contain 0.49 grams of sugar--nearly 1/8 of a teaspoon. That's the same as eating a whole Tic Tac. (which also has a tricky ingredient label listing 0 grams of sugar per piece!)
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So one serving of Cheetos might have as much sugar as a Tic Tac!
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These labels provided by Pure Food Kids. Visit www.purefoodkids.org to learn more
Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04803070262759614865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-21151498683783939382019-12-10T22:44:00.000-08:002019-12-10T22:48:08.796-08:00Nostalgia candy from Newsies!I found some great old fashioned candy on sale at concession at the musical Newsies. Since the show is loosely based on a true story about newspaper boys who went on strike in 1899, the concession stand sells "nostalgia" candy--flavors that parents remember from childhood. I did a few experiments, and also learned some new facts!
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<a href="lwhstheatre.com/disney-newsies">Come see amazing high school singers and dancers perform Newsies</a> at Lake Washington High School in Kirkland, WA, this Friday and Saturday--and get your own nostalgia experiment candy!
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<br><br><br>Zotz arrived in the US in 1968 after being invented in Italy. The center fizzes when eaten, because a mix of baking soda and malic acid starts reacting to form bubbles in the presence of water (or saliva).
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Cow Tales are produced by Goetze's Candy, which started making chewing gum in 1895. Fun fact about Cow Tales: though they look like most caramels, they contain flour, making them closer in substance to Tootsie Rolls.
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Aftershock candy is based on Pop Rocks, which were invented in 1956 by a chemist hoping to trap enough bubbles inside candy to dissolve into carbonated soda. While he couldn't capture enough carbon dioxide to make soda, the trapped bubbles explode and escape nicely when added to water!
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Loraleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11033903414462187011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814908620667631015.post-91977800649846149352019-11-15T11:59:00.001-08:002019-11-15T11:59:37.556-08:00Halloween Chocolate Melting ExperimentsEver wonder why chocolate turns white? It's not getting moldy. In fact, the white stuff is just another form of chocolate crystals, called <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2009/09/chocolate-bloom.html">Chocolate Bloom.</a>
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Cocoa butter molecules stack themselves into many different forms of crystals, and some are more stable than others. (Think of the difference of strength between a single Lego tower and an interlocked Lego wall.) When you melt the chocolate, the cocoa butter cools into crystalline forms that are less stable. Cocoa butter gets pushed out of the chocolate structure and reforms into white crystals.
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Chocolate bar at the end of <a href="http://www.candyexperiments.com/2019/11/the-great-candy-melt-off-november-2019.html"> The Great Melting Race </a><br>
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Chocolate Bloom<br>
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Broken chocolate: notice the fissures where the chocolate has separated<br>
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Cocoa Butter Crystals<br>
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