Welcome to the Love Lab

We celebrated this past Valentine's Day

with our Lemonhead Homeschooling group

by going...

...to the Love Lab.

I set up some several simple scientific activities

for us to do on a card table,

using test tubes and heart containers,

to get the kiddos in a "experimental" kind of mood.

Most of the experiments revolved around candy

in some way,

since V-Day often has us thinking about

chocolates and conversation hearts.

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Activity 1: Death by Chocolate

OK,

it was really anywhere near death,

but I did torture the kiddos' taste buds

with THIS simple experiment

using Hershey Kisses and their mouths.

(Nice, huh?)

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Activity 2: Floating M&M's

After placing some M&M's and Sixlets

into the bottom of a couple of cups...

...we poured water over them and waited.

Sixlets results

M&M's results

(I know it's hard to see, but we DID get a couple of floating

"M's" on top of the water.

You can read all about this experiment

and how it teaches water solubility

by clicking HERE. 

When the experiment was completed,

these two goof balls

dares each other to drink the

candy filled water...

Yum, yum.

;0)

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Activity 3: Unsinkable Marshmallows 

Using mini-marshmallows...

...the kiddos tried to see if they could sink

them in a cup of water.

A couple of them achieved success,

after they did something to their marshmallows,

which you can read about HERE.

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 Activity 4: Dancing Hearts

To make Conversation Hearts" dance,

all you need to do...

...is drop some into some Club Soda.

Here they are in action:

Read about why this works
by going HERE.

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Activity 5:  Funny Putty 

I got these putty kits

from the leftovers of one of our Vacation Bible Schools

a couple of years ago.

The kiddos added a bit of water to the powder

and waited until they had putty.

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Activity 6:  Awesome Apothecary Pouches

Using THIS tutorial,

the kiddos turned matchboxes

into little pouches they could carry

"medicinal treasures" in.

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Activity 7: Mentos- the Fountain Maker

Using Diet Coke, Mentos, and

Steve Spangler's Geyser Tube,

we ended our

time in the Love Lab with a bang...

You can read why this experiment works the way it does
by going HERE.

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I do believe we all developed a deeper affection

for science in the Love Lab!

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Linking up with Science Sunday...