Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
We are creating colourful sugar crystals. The materials are sugar, water, food colouring and a plate. First, we stirred the sugar into the water until it dissolved. I used lukewarm water to dissolve the sugar more easily. Still Mr K and Ms C took a long time to stir it. We added a few drops of food colouring. Mr K chose blue food colouring and Ms C choose pink.
Today, we tried to make a goo with strange behaviour. This is a very simple experiment. You only need water, cornflour, bowl, plate and spoon.
The children put cornflour onto the disposable plastic plate and added water. After a quick stir with the spoon, they added more water until the goo was thick and creamy. They could then pick up the goo to roll it between the fingers.
Inspired by this week’s Play Fest Twitter on Montessori play shared by @bluebearwood, I decided to have a go at the absorbing science. We went out to a bargain shop to buy some food dye. They were only 37 pence each as were are near the expiry date.
We came back home and the kids were all excited. After I got back home, I realised I did not have the same clear plastic cup and right type of paper towel. We were unable to do a successful absorbing science experiment.
I did manage to show the children how the paper towel soaked up the blue dye. I dropped a few drops of different food dyes into a separate cups of water and stirred them.Then the children mixed the blue dye water into yellow dye water to make it green.
