Learn by playing! Eat, enjoying!
1. Ice-cream-ice
In order to make ice cream ice, place ice, salt and your favorite juice (or milk) in a plastic bag. This experiment perfectly demonstrates chemical reactions, and also provides an opportunity to teach children to observe proportions.
2. Common swallow
A wonderful way to show the children the difference between the liquid and solid state of substances.
3. Luminescent Jelly
To get the experiment you need:
- jellies (light shades, for example, lemon or lime);
- tonic (250 ml.);
- plate;
- measuring cup (ladle);
- a small saucepan;
- deep bowl;
- a spoon;
- fridge;
- neon lamp.
Using a measuring cup, pour the necessary amount of tonic into the pan. Bring the tonic to a boil, first placing the jelly powder in a bowl. Then pour the boiling tonic into a bowl (do not forget to warn the children about the safety rules). Stir the powder until the lumps disappear completely. Then add 1 cup of cold water. Place the bowl in the refrigerator for 4 hours. Ta-daa! Glowing jelly is ready! It remains to check the result, having lighted the neon lamp.
4. Clouds ... White-throated horses
At first glance, it might seem that it's very difficult to make such a thing. But, having started the experiment, you will understand that you were wrong. All you need is: jelly blue, whipped cream, a little water, ice and sugar. In boiling water, pour the jelly powder and stir until the lumps disappear completely. Add a few ice cubes, so the jelly will immediately begin to change its consistency. Place the jelly in the refrigerator for about 20-30 minutes. When it is ready, evenly distribute a spoonful of jelly in the jar, and then add the whipped cream with sugar around the edges of the jar. Then again a layer of jelly. A spoonful of cream. A layer of jelly. A spoonful of cream, and you will get wonderful, and most importantly delicious clouds!
5. Crystals
For this experiment, you need even less: wooden sticks (divide them in half), clothespins, glasses, water, kuucha sugar and kuucha patience. Ideal proportions: 10 glasses of sugar for 4 glasses of water. Fill the sugar with water in a large saucepan. Stir on medium heat. After the sugar has completely dissolved, allow the mixture to cool for about 15 minutes. At this time, prepare the sticks: moisten them with water and roll in a small amount of sugar and with the clothespins put them in glasses with a pre-spilled sugar mixture. Make sure that the sticks do not touch either the sides of the glasses or each other - they need space to build up new crystals. All is ready, it remains to wait, wait, wait .. Are you still with us? Wait, wait .. and after about a week you will get the long-awaited result!
6. Journey to the Center of the Earth
How great it is when it turns out to combine pleasant with useful, as in this experiment, demonstrating layers of not only the cake, but also the Earth! By the way, bake cake in a cake and once again in a cake is not so simple. But probably. The inner core is a vanilla cake, the outer core is a lemon cake, the mantle is orange, the bark is presented with a chocolate cream, and the continents are made of fudge and marshmallow. Would you refuse such a sweet "breadboard" ?!
7. Corn
At least once in your life try to make popcorn from a whole cob of corn. Just put the ears in a paper bag and microwave. Children really like the sound of clapping maize!
8. Lemonade mouth
You will need:
- 1-2 lemons;
- 1 tsp. soda;
- water;
- 1-2 tsp. sugar to taste;
- juicer;
- a spoon;
- glass;
- measuring spoon.
Squeeze the juice of one lemon into a glass, add 1 tsp. soda. For greater effect, divide the soda into two parts and add first one and then the other. Stir. Then put a spoonful of sugar. You will notice that the reaction will continue to flow, but less intensively. Lemonade is ready, you can take a sample! Well, what kind of ochucheniya?
9. The Rainbow Arc
What color will it be if you mix red and yellow? Blue and green? Do not worry, what we offer is absolutely safe. So, arrange 6 glasses filled with water, in a circle a short distance from each other. In one glass add food color of any color, and leave the remaining glasses with clean water. One important detail is that it is necessary to use paper towels folded in tubes, folded in half and dropped one end into one glass, and the other - into another. It remains to observe how the color travels from one glass to another, and what shades can be obtained by blending these or those colors.
10. Special-dough
Ingredients:
- 0.5 tbsp. flour;
- 0.5 tbsp. water;
- 2 tbsp. l. salts;
- 1 tbsp. l. baking powder;
- herbs and spices.
Firstly, this experiment is an excellent substitute for plasticine, and secondly it is easy to implement. To do this, you need to mix all the ingredients in a saucepan. Place the saucepan on a small fire and stir the contents until the dough forms a lump. Put it in a plastic bag and cool. The dough is ready! Repeat the procedure with each kind of herbs and spices. Lepish in pleasure!
11. Habitat
If your children are interested in animals and their habitat, then this experiment is right for you. In particular, the cake on the photo shows the habitat of walruses. Do not limit your imagination!
12. Are you weak?
Necessary:
- 1 g of sodium alginate (a product of natural origin extracted from seaweed);
- 5 g of calcium lactate;
- a bowl of water (1 glass);
- a bowl of water (4 cups);
- a bowl full of water.
Add sodium alginate to a bowl of water. Mix everything with a blender. Put the bowl aside. Let all the bubbles formed during mixing be broken. Further, in a bowl with 4 glasses of water, pour calcium lactate. Stir everything with a spoon. Using a large and possibly deep spoon, place the contents of a small bowl in a large bowl. Stir well, but very gently. After 3 minutes, with a spoon, remove the formed balls and place them in a bowl with ordinary running water. Incredible, but you can take a drop in your hand, not being afraid that the water will spill.
13. How is the "Em-and-Ems"
Necessary:
- tapioca grains;
- kettle;
- water;
- if necessary, food colorings.
Quickly and simply: boil water, place tapioca seeds in water, mix, close the kettle, let it brew for 5 minutes. To ensure that the grains cool faster, rinse them under running water.
14. Cookie Mountains
After such an experiment your children will not ask the question: "How are mountains formed?"
Necessary:
- crackers;
- whipped cream;
- a bowl of water;
- plate.
Spread evenly the whipped cream on the plate. Dampen the crackers in a bowl of water (for only a few seconds, if you do not want the experiment to fail). Put the crackers on the whipped cream moistened sides to each other. Start approaching the crackers to each other so that a hillock is formed. Congratulations on your plate formed a mountain! Now you can eat it!
15. Sorbet own hands
Ingredients:
- dry jelly;
- powdered sugar;
- lemon acid.
3 tsp. sugar powder and 1 tsp. citric acid mix in a bowl. You can add a dry jelly. If you know what a sorbet means, then you know the sensations that arise in the mouth when you eat it. Do not overdo it with the amount of this treat, and brush your teeth after the experiment.
16. Insect Walking
"Walking on the shell" - this expression is equivalent to the expression "walking on the blade of a knife", when it means the touching of delicate topics, etc. And try to walk on the shell so that it does not crack. Feel the power of balance. A dangerous but fascinating occupation.
17. Chain of DNA
Liquorice sweets, marshmallow and toothpicks are all that is needed to create a DNA molecule. You "on your fingers" let the child know what it is, and what it is eating.