The crazy antics, short stories & photo shoots of a married 22-year-old mom of a 6.5 year old boy, a 3 year old girl, a Chihuahua-Poodle and cat/small tiger. She drinks far too much caffeine, is willing to spend excessive amounts of money on purses, lives in her pajamas 92% of the time and occasionally finds time to blog.
Science Experiments gone wrong.
Apparently Saturdays have turned into “Activity Day”. Last Saturday, Conner and I made cookies. THIS Saturday, we did science experiments.
SIDENOTE: I bought this Science Experiment kit (complete with 10 experiments for kids 4+, test tubes, beakers, water dropper, etc & ALL the ingredients needed) from TJ Maxx for $7 DOLLARS. I was always under the impression that TJ Maxx was just another ROSS. You know, unorganized. Good deals but nothing really of above-average quality. Therefore, I never went in there because I get a panic attack everytime I walk into ROSS because of the chaos. But Carmen kept getting all these cute clothes & everytime I’d ask her where she got it, “TJ Maxx!” So, finally, I decided to check it out for myself and OHMYGOD I FOUND HEAVEN. TJ Maxx has EVERYTHING. From clothes to shoes to jackets to designer handbags to stationary, a huge toy section, even a section solely for baby shower gifts?! ALL for RIDICULOUSLY good prices?! Uh, hello, wet dream!
Our science table.
The kids were REALLY excited about this.
Especially Conner.
Our first experiment (and failure) was an “Underwater Volcano”. Which was ironic considering there was no actual water involved. You first had to pour some sort of crystals into one of the test tubes:
Then there was shaking involved.
After mixing in the red Cabbage Powder and Vegtable Oil, it bubbled over for about a 1/4th of a second and just made the tube full of different colors. Conner was not happy about this.
Then we mixed Cornstarch and water together to make the “Is It Liquid Or Solid?” experiment. After you mix it together, you grab the Liqlid (That’s mine & Conner’s made up word for Liquid + Solid). You hold and mold it into a ball and it turns into a solid, clay type Liqlid.
And then once you stop pushing it together with pressure, the Liqid turns back into a liquid.
And by “liquid”, I mean LIQUID.
It was probably the strangest thing I’ve ever touched. Seriously.
The aftermath:
I’m pretty sure everyone should have Saturday/Activity Day. It’s worth the mess.
