Balloon Science

I am going to do something I seldom do on my blog today. I am going to recommend a website. This website produces tons of science experiments. The experiments are videotaped and explanations are provided for each. You can sign up for one free experiment a week or pay the registration for the whole collection. Not much money and TOTALLY worth it, IMO. But just an emailed experiment a week is great. My friend who recommended this site told me that her idea with her kids is just to plant the seeds so that the remember the experiments when they get older and begin to apply science at their older ages. Then they can look back and remember doing these experiments that are relevent to what they are learning as older children. I liked that. I am stealing that exact thought process this year with my kids and science. We are going to have all the fun and none of the hassle of trying to explain things and have them lose interest. Unless they ask of course.

OK So here it is...http://krampf.com/ Again, this man is great. I highly recommend this for people wanting to dabble in cool experiments with their kids.

Here are Brenda and her cousin as they experiment with the amazing unpoppable water balloons. From this experiment, they filled the rest of the balloons up with water. Some were babies and the game was to see how long they could cradle the baby without popping it. Some were not tied and they sprayed them at eachother. Some were just good ol'fashioned water balloons to be exploded at eachother. BTW if doing this experiment at home, do have a towel or two handy. Brenda made her goal to pop the water balloon. She spent a good amt of time trying to get the fire onto the part of the balloon that had air. And POP went the water.

Talking about POP... he also has a great section about what makes the sound that you hear when something like a firecracker or balloon pops. That was an interesting topic. The whole family learned something that day.

This is the kind of website that can teach the kids how fun science really is.