Milk Magic

Today was finally the day to try out this "milk magic" activity I stumbled across.  I wasn't so sure about it since I would be "wasting" my precious milk for this acitivity (have you seen milk prices...ridic!)
Anyways I got over it and used about 1cup and it was worth it because the kids went nuts over this experiment. 

What you will Need: 

- A tray of some kind...you just need an edge to keep your milk in

-food coloring

-tooth picks

-dish soap

-milk (i heard whole milk worked the best so thats what we used)

Put a couple drop of food coloring into the milk

then dip the toothpick into the soap, and dip the toothpick into the food coloring spots in the milk

WATCH WHAT HAPPENS!

so coool!!!  the kids LOVED this and after the milk and turned all green and the experiment no longer worked we were done! and the kids were bummed!

I will let the photos do the talking but let me tell you the photos don't show exactly what happened so I say get out the stuff you need and see for yourself what happens!

What simple experiments do you do with your kids?

ICE, ICE, BABY!

It was a HOT one out there today!  So the kids got to take a jump into the pool one last time before all the summer swim stuff gets put away!  While the kids were swimming and I was dying sitting in the sun in all the that heat I remembered I had been making colored ice cubes and they were just sitting in the freezer waiting to be painted with!  So I had the kids jump onto the picnic table and I got the supples!

Again painting is exciting over here, but when its a different method of painting its even that much more exciting! So the children were ready to dive in and begin their masterpieces!



food coloring and water





the kiddos busy doing their ice paintings



After all the paper ran out and there were still LOTS of ice cubes left we took the colored ice to the sidewalk, and when the sidewalk was no longer fun we dumped the ice cubes into the pool and watched them melt and make the color brown!

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