This week she had science camp for four days, 3 hours a day. They did all kinds of things. One of which was to stick a daisy in water with coloring in it to see what would happen. Interestingly enough even I learned something. Wednesday has a thing for mixing colors, so she mixed what looked like all the colors to make black. So of course she was waiting for a black flower to emerge... Well by day four she had a flower with blue stripes and yellow spots. The flower had only picked up random pigments. So, if you ever do this experiment at home I encourage you to mix some colors. I find that a lot more interesting then putting a flower in red water and seeing it turn red. Sadly I did not get a picture of it because by the time it was to be taken home it had broke its stem.
Also in science camp they made volcano. I must share with you this project! Usually when you think of a homemade volcano you think of paper mâché. This was much simpler.
You'll need:
Plastic bottle ( we used a small one)
A strong paper plate
A large bowl
Flour
Water
Cocoa powder
Baking soda
Vinegar
Put the plastic bottle in the middle of the plate. In a bowl mix the flour and water until its a nice dough. Form the dough around the bottle, leaving the hole of the bottle open. After it looks like a mountain then sprinkle some cocoa powder on it for color. Because of the heat I set it outside and once it's dry it's time for eruption! I put a good amount of baking soda on the bottle (the more baking soda the bigger the eruption). Put the vinegar in a container that your child can use to pour it in the bottle. Encourage them to pour it all in at once, pouring it slowly will cause it to erupt inside of the bottle and that is not fun. When it's done, you can pour it out, rinse it out and do it again.
Note: it does not need to be dry to erupt it, some children hate to wait and that's fine. Just know that it will be much more messy, but it should not hurt the volcano.
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