4-H science fun day

We spent a full day at a 4-H festival ! It was so much fun and we did more science projects in one day than I think I have done the entire school year. Good friends, science, and gooey experiments, What more can a boy ask for right?

Density experiment
What happens when you mix three
liquids together that are all made up of sugar
and water?

Look at those faces as the try to listen to the
instructor and smile for the camera!
They are waiting for water to put in their cups

each cup has a different amount of sugar in it.
hmm what is he doing?

After adding water and food coloring to each cup
they stirred and then poured each color into
one tall glass.

Chase and his partner pouring his liquids together,

Pouring and mixing

Watching the instructor intensly

Stirring and pouring.

Look what happens when you add the
three liquids together?
WHY didn't they mix together?
What is happening?

Density experiment All three
liquids 

After the experiment they got to mix all the colors
together. 

Next table we learned about chemical reactions
this is a bowl of water and pepper.
Tristan is putting his finger in a bowl of dish soap

Look what happens to the pepper when he touches
the dish soap to it!

Pouring a bowl of milk

Adding drops of color

look at his smug face heeeheee :)

Now add some drops of dish soap to the milk

What is going to happen now

Chase's Silly putty

making silly putty

I had to copy the recipe so we could make it again

mixing the silly putty

using physics to make a marble track

Good teamwork Tristan and Spencer

They were concentrating pretty hard on their track
I love their determined faces.

This was by far the cooolest of them all.
Lava lamps.
Spencer waiting for his 6th alka-seltzer tablet
he would have done this all day if I let him.

Water, oil, and an alka seltzer tablet

Tristan watching it fizzle through the oil and
the bubbles were so cool and the brought the
color to the top of the oil.
So cool

Eco Bots
A tiny motor and a button cell battery
attached to a toothbrush and
voila a motorized brush!

Tristan was a little worried that his wasn't working
right but with the help of a new friend he got it working

Chase showing off his eco bot with hit buddy Zachary

Spencer learning how to make plantable paper

Spencer squishing his paper into his tray.
He made the paper, then put some tomato seeds
on one side and folded it over, squished it together
when the paper dries you can plant it in a garden and your
tomatoes will grow!
How cool is that?

Tristan is making a paper horse and stable. Very
cool indeed. 

Chase made a duck tape wallet. 

It was a fun filled busy day and mom needed a nap by the time it was over.