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Showing posts with label floating letters. Show all posts
Happy Valentine's Day from Jelly Belly!
When I saw these Jelly Belly Conversation Beans, I couldn't wait to try them out for Floating Letters, so I rushed home to put them in water. After the glaze with the printed logo got wet and started to loosen from the candy, I used a toothpick to gently poke through the glaze and tear off the piece with the letters. A few logos ripped in the process, but "LIKE" held together and floated nicely to the top.
Easter Blue M's?
Easter M&Ms come in such pretty colors that when we got some last year, we were excited to experiment with them. Sadly, the M&M colors were too faint for good chromatography--we could hardly see the colors on the paper, much less any separation. So this year, we decided to concentrate on the m's themselves.
First of all, are these m's made of the same stuff as normal white m's? Experimentation shows at least one difference: these m's seem to dissolve.
What about the speckles on the M&M eggs?
Yes, they float too.
Which leads me to my final question: how do they print the speckles on all sides of an oblong egg? Alas, experimentation can't answer that one.
First of all, are these m's made of the same stuff as normal white m's? Experimentation shows at least one difference: these m's seem to dissolve.
Blue streaks sinking down from the bottom of the m--dissolved blue dye?
That led us to the big question: do the blue m's float? What about all those little bunnies and sheep? Apparently so.
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What about the speckles on the M&M eggs?
Yes, they float too.
Which leads me to my final question: how do they print the speckles on all sides of an oblong egg? Alas, experimentation can't answer that one.
An Emergency Birthday Present
We had a minor birthday party crisis recently when my daughter was invited to the birthday party of a boy she hardly knows. All she could tell me was his reading level ("He won't like chapter books, Mommy") and that he occasionally wears an Army necklace. What sort of present could I provide with so little information? Then we remembered: everybody loves candy experiments.
So we made a candy experiment kit, with POP ROCKS to dissolve, WARHEADS for the Acid Test, Starbursts for the Oil Test, Skittles for floating letters, and Lifesavers for Lifesaver Lights. Brand-new experiment cards contained the instructions for each experiment.
May his birthday be full of acid test bubbles, popping POP ROCKS, and all kinds of candy fun!
So we made a candy experiment kit, with POP ROCKS to dissolve, WARHEADS for the Acid Test, Starbursts for the Oil Test, Skittles for floating letters, and Lifesavers for Lifesaver Lights. Brand-new experiment cards contained the instructions for each experiment.
May his birthday be full of acid test bubbles, popping POP ROCKS, and all kinds of candy fun!
Jelly Belly Beans
I got an email from a mom planning a Jelly Belly birthday party. Did I have any ideas for Jelly Belly experiments? I rushed out to buy a bag; here are my suggestions:
1) Floating Letters
The Jelly Belly logos float, just like M&M m's and Skittles s's. Leave the jelly beans in water, logo side up, for a few minutes and see if the logos peel off. The warmer the water, the faster it goes.
2) Chromotography
Jelly Belly chromatography should be really fun, but since I had to use paper towels (I'm out of coffee filter paper) I didn't get the best results. Green Apple separated nicely into blue and yellow, and the red-brown Dr. Pepper had a nice streak of red separate out from the rest of the dye. Black didn't separate with my materials, but I'll try it again with coffee filter paper, since we've had great luck with black jelly beans lately.
3) Acid Test
Regular Jelly Bellies, it turns out, are not very sour. Only dissolved Green Apple beans gave me any visible bubbles when I poured in the baking soda. I'll try it again when I can get some Jelly Belly Sours; I bet those'll work great.
1) Floating Letters
The Jelly Belly logos float, just like M&M m's and Skittles s's. Leave the jelly beans in water, logo side up, for a few minutes and see if the logos peel off. The warmer the water, the faster it goes.
2) Chromotography
Jelly Belly chromatography should be really fun, but since I had to use paper towels (I'm out of coffee filter paper) I didn't get the best results. Green Apple separated nicely into blue and yellow, and the red-brown Dr. Pepper had a nice streak of red separate out from the rest of the dye. Black didn't separate with my materials, but I'll try it again with coffee filter paper, since we've had great luck with black jelly beans lately.
3) Acid Test
Regular Jelly Bellies, it turns out, are not very sour. Only dissolved Green Apple beans gave me any visible bubbles when I poured in the baking soda. I'll try it again when I can get some Jelly Belly Sours; I bet those'll work great.
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