Awesome activity :)

[sunnydays]

Just wanted to share a great acitivity we did this morning! Yesterday I filled various containers (yogurt, margarine, etc) with green food colouring and water, put a letter (the plastic magentic ones that go on the fridge) in each container (I made one for each child) and put them in the freezer. Today I gave them each one block of ice in a pastic bin on the table and spoons, salt shakers with salt, little containers of warm water with eye droppers and everntually squirt bottles with warm water and their task was to get their letters out of the ice. The three oldest kids (2.5 to 4.5 years) had a total blast and it took them about an hour. They also enjoyed pouring the water from container to container in their bins and making a fine mess The younger kids enjoyed the sensory experience of holding and touching the ice and then when they started eating it, I gave their ice blocks to the older kids and they went of to play. After we finished this, we did an ice volcano! I had made this the night before too (water in a sugar canister with a glass in the middle. Put baking soda in the glass and mixed green food coluring with vinager in squirty bottles and let the kids take turns squirting into the volcano to make it erupt...they LOVED this! And then we tried other colours as well...everyone was hysterical with laughter each time it erupted Love these kind of science activities Just wanted to share!