Homemade Bubble Wand

Tape several straws together. That's it! Make hundreds of tiny bubbles or blow slowly to create a foamy tube of bubbles. Since we used bendy straws, C thought it would be funny to bend the ends and send bubbles in all directions.

All Purpose Bubble Solution

This is a good general use mixture.

Ingredients:

4 1/2 Cups Water (Distilled Water works best)

1/2 Cup hand dishwashing detergent (Dawn or Joy are best!)

Optional: 1/2 Cup Karo light corn syrup or Glycerin

1. Combine water and detergent. Stir well, but do not shake.

2. For stronger bubbles add corn syrup or glycerin, or more detergent.

*Extension: Make large bubble wands from straws threaded onto string.

Air Moves Things

Materials: Straws, feathers, pom poms, plastic bottles, pebbles, crumpled paper balls, any objects that might move with air.

Place objects on a flat surface and blow through a straw, aiming air at the objects to see which ones move and how much air it takes to move them.

*Extension: Can you find 3 MORE things that air will move?

*Extension: Have air races. Who can move the feather to the end of the room the fastest?

*Extension: Go on a wind walk and observe all the things moving in the wind.

*Variation: Use turkey basters or paper fans to move objects.

*Variation: Create abstract paintings by dropping small amounts of paint on paper and blowing the paint around the paper with a straw.

Mentos in Diet Coke; Cause and Effect

Parents: I recommend your supervision while doing

the following activities with preschoolers.

Here's how I spent 30 seconds of my last science and math class. Have a little fun with cause and effect and drop some mint Mentos into a rolled up paper tube and release into Diet Coke!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_Coke_and_Mentos_eruption

*Variations: Explore the reaction of vinegar and baking soda. Or fill a film canister 1/3 full with water and drop in an Alka-Seltzer. Replace the lid and flip it over, setting it down on the lid. Wait for the POP as it blasts off!