Wednesday 11 November 2015

"I'm spinning around, move out of my way..."


I like to squeeze as many little activities as I can in to each day. The boys had their friend Keira round for the afternoon and they were playing indoors because of the rainy weather. They wanted to make strange concoctions with their test tubes and pippets so I sorted out some ingredients and bowls and let them get on with it. The rain soon stopped and inevitably they wanted to get straight outside on bikes and scooters which gave me the idea to merge the two activities together to show them how a centrifuge works.


I explained what a centrifuge was and how they are used and then we got started on our experiment by filling two small jars with oil, vinegar and mustard. We then turned Seth's bike upside down and attached one of the jars to the reflector. We then peddled the bike by hand as fast as we could. We had to start the experiment again when I realised we had filled the jars up too far but the second attempt went perfectly and the ingredients separated which the kids found really interesting.


There is so much time in a day, you can squeeze all manner if interesting little activities in to keep the kids entertained and we all love a mini science experiment.



2 comments:

Anners said...

This is such a brilliant idea! I'm totally stealing it when Ty gets bigger!

Loved meeting you guys 😊

GiftsFromThePirates said...

steal away!!! it was awesome meeting you guys too. I hope you guys had an amazing end to the holiday
are you on fb? add me, Pauly Saucil xx