Do Pumpkins sink or float – Scary Halloween Pumpkin Science

Posted on 8 October, 2013 by Chrissie — No Comments ↓

October is one of mine and the girls favorite month. We love Halloween and thought it would be fun to do a whole bunch of experiments with pumpkins, like Pumpkins sink or float. We started this whole adventure by going to our favorite Pumpkin Patch and the girls had a blast picking out 8 pumpkins. Buy some pumpkins and follow along with as we learn pumpkin can sink or float grow a pumpkin plant with out Continue reading →

Magic Science Experiments

Posted on 6 April, 2013 by Chrissie — No Comments ↓

Magic Science Experiments I have four apprentice magicians that wanted to combine magic and science and this is how we made our magic science experiments. We took out our magic ingredients of citric acid, a base ( baking soda), vegetable oil, zinc sulfide, polyacrylamide, golden paper, water, and a magic wand to make different potions, and we even made things disappear. Our first experiment was to make a magic wand… This took an hour to Continue reading →

Magic School Bus -Water experiments

Posted on 4 January, 2013 by Chrissie — 2 Comments ↓

Today we had fun with a friend who came to spend the night. We decided to do water experiments from our Magic School Bus kits. Rylee wanted to do experiments about water. Water Experiments 1- 3 …. were to see if an item would sink or float. Each girl had to pick 2 items they thought would sink and 2 items they thought would float. The 4th water experiment was to see if 4 different Continue reading →

birds, electricity books

Posted on 28 December, 2011 by Chrissie — No Comments ↓

This morning McKenzey read the bird book to me while Isabelle listen and then we did a couple of video to actually show we were paying attention. Mac was so so excited about what she learned about birds. I love it when its their idea and they pick what we learn about and enjoy learning about it… After we read the bird book the girls begged me to let them do some more experiments with Continue reading →

Experiments – Magnets

Posted on 14 November, 2011 by Chrissie — No Comments ↓

Who doesn’t love to play with magnets, so we got this book at the library along with a lot of other – but more about that later. I made the girls sit and listen while I ead a couple of chapters – gave up on that and went right into the experimenting… I got both girls notebooks (which we almost lost twice) so they could write down their hypothesis and conclusions. first experiment … WHAT Continue reading →