Kids seem to learn best when you play with food. Sitting down with a pencil and a ruler to draw a geometric shape? That’s sooooo boring. But throw in marshmallows in the mix? It’s time to learn geometry like a rock star. Since my kids liked the marshmallow geometric shapes activity so much, I decided …
Coffee filter art is always so fun with the kids. They can draw practically anything they want on the coffee filters, and it will look amazing. After we made the beautiful coffee filter butterflies and fall leaves, my kids are very familiar with coffee filter art. Therefore, they were super excited when I took out …
When I was in high school and college, I used to make origami lucky stars when I had some downtime. You can make hundreds of them, place them in glass flavor jars, and use them as homemade gifts for birthdays and holidays. When we started talking about stars and the constellations during space week, I …
Learn how to make the famous 3 ingredient cloud bread that is so fluffy that will blow your mind! It looks like a pillow and tastes like a sweet sponge!
When it comes to introducing kids to food science, whipped cream is the perfect place to start. Like magic, heavy cream transforms from a liquid into a solid within minutes. We have made homemade whipped cream many times, and every time the kids are amazed. Below you will find explanations on how heavy cream magically …
You may know the light, cream-filled dessert as cream puffs. Some might call it profiteroles. Whatever you call it, the base of the dessert is choux pastry, or pâte à choux in French. And understanding the science behind choux pastry is the key to baking it successfully. The most important rule for choux pastry is …
When you think of caviar, unfertilized fish eggs probably comes to your mind. But in the world of molecular gastronomy, things are not what they seem. Today, we are going to make your favorite fruit juice into little jelly pearls, or fruit caviar. Molecular gastronomy is a subdiscipline of food science that focuses on the …
Do your kids resist brushing their teeth? After this tooth decay experiment with eggshells, they might run to clean their teeth after a meal! Eggshells have a similar chemical composition to tooth enamel, so they react similarly to other chemicals. In this tooth decay experiment, we will explore what stains tooth enamel and what breaks …
The concept of sound waves is not the easiest to teach to kids. For light, you can do experiments like the reversing arrow or the disappearing water trick to show refraction. There are numerous experiments, like the balloon-powered LEGO car, to show motion. But you can’t see sound waves because they are vibrating so fast. …
Water can do some really cool things to light. We saw in the disappearing coin trick that light refraction could make a coin vanish in front of your eyes. You may also notice that when you are at the pool, objects in the water are not really where you think they are when you look …
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