Just scrambled eggs with a little red food coloring, to make a nice orange concoction that shines like taffy.
Laffy Taffy experiments or Halloween breakfast?
Just scrambled eggs with a little red food coloring, to make a nice orange concoction that shines like taffy.
Solar Jack o' Lantern Power!
How did you celebrate last week's partial solar eclipse? We flipped a pair of binoculars to project the eclipse onto paper, and turned the glowing crescents into jack-o-lantern eyes!
Smaller than an M&M
It's not an M&M logo, and it's not an insect. This display from the Pacific Science Center's current exhibit of Ripley's Believe it or Not shows a life-sized model of a Amau Child Frog. As you can see, it's smaller than an M&M!
Candy Experiments 2
I just got my advance copy of Candy Experiments 2, and it's beautiful!
My oldest daughter is disappointed that I didn't give her credit for inventing one of the best experiments, how to use food coloring and a secret ingredient to turn a red and white gummy worm completely blue. So for the record--that one was her idea!
My oldest daughter is disappointed that I didn't give her credit for inventing one of the best experiments, how to use food coloring and a secret ingredient to turn a red and white gummy worm completely blue. So for the record--that one was her idea!
Twist on sink and float (always something new)
At one of my library activities this summer, I invited kids to sink a marshmallow by squashing it to make it denser than the water--I try to explain to them that to make something more dense you either have to make it smaller or make it heavier. Then I invite them to experiment with water displacement and float a piece of taffy by shaping it into a bowl. One of my students made the should-have-been-obvious leap and wrapped the taffy around the marshmallow to make it float!
Road Tripping Signing
I'll be at the University Bookstore in Bellevue on Thursday, July 31, at 6 pm to share ideas from Road Tripping. Come hear some of our crazy travel stories and talk about ways to make road trips easier! (I can also tell you a little bit about Candy Experiments 2.)
Bloomed and Unbloomed
My husband gave me this: a chocolate bar that had melted and cooled in the car. (He knew I'd love it.) Most of the surface bloomed, but patches stayed dark and shiny. Were these sections protected by the wrapper? Did they fail to melt? Or was there something else going on?
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