Sunday, February 27, 2011

Mad scientist

Mackenzie has been learning all kinds of things lately! For Christmas, a family friend gave Mack several different science kits. One of them was making your own marbles! The marbles weren't glass, but a slimey substance that made for lots of fun bouncing.

They started out so tiny but in a few hours, they were the size of regular marbles.


The marbles made the rounds- they got nice and warm on Mack's play stove, were feed to her Zhu Zhu pets, were bounced around like crazy before I finally put them in a plastic bag for squishing before they found their way to the trash. What a fun experiment! Along with making marbles, Mackenzie helped her daddy make root beer ( pics to come) and a batch of daddy's real beer, both great ( and a little advanced but still fun) lessons in science.

2 comments:

Angie said...

Fun, fun, fun! We tried this with little animals and waited days with no change :(

MissyLong said...

Us, too! Ours was a Santa and he never grew. And it was a struggle to leave him sitting in the bottom of a glass on the counter for three days while we waited. lol