Kris and Meredith went out earlier in the week by themselves. Kris dropped Meredith off at a friend’s house, and then went on to take our honey supers to have the honey extracted. (He came home with 60 pounds of honey! From a hive we have only had for 4 months!) This left Fiona, Guinevere and I home for the afternoon. Since Fiona loves science experiments as much as Meredith ever has, and had been asking for a new one, I decided it would be the perfect time to do one that we have done a couple of times already with Meredith but that I was pretty sure Fiona wouldn’t remember. Kris took the good camera with him, so these were all taken with our camera we bought right before Meredith was born over six years ago now.
First, I filled some jars with vinegar and water (I didn’t double check the recipe, you’re not actually supposed to add water; it seemed to work fine though besides being a bit slow to start), a squirt of dish soap, and food colouring. Fiona chose the colours and squirted in the food colouring. Then she scooped in the baking soda…
And was thrilled to see the foam rise up and out of the jars.
I think she really loved having a chance to do this on her own. We have been doing lots together as a family, but often now they are geared more towards Meredith’s age and not always things Fiona can do without help.
Afterwards, she used the spoon to play around in the bubbles, swirl the colours together, and scoop the foam.
I am going to have to think of some more (or go back through my old blog posts) for other times when Meredith isn’t around.
We have been so busy. Almost every single day this month there is something going on. So much for home schoolers not being social! I have lots to blog about, and not enough time to blog it. But I do want to make a habit of blogging more and seem to be keeping it up much better again. I love having this record to come back to and look at what’s going on in our days.
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