Big Woods Day 2

Today we learned about Density.  Density is how closely

packed materials of an object are.

Here is a video we found to help the girls understand it better.

And here is a great experiment to go with the lesson.  Of coarse we found

this experiment AFTER they did their own using hot sauce, oil, and

balsamic vinegar

I love this experiment, very colorful presentation

here is one using different liquids and eggs... very cool

The girls choices for the experiment:

Hot Sauce, Cooking Oil, and Red Wine Vinegar

The girls thought that the oil would be the only one

that had less density than water and the other two

choices would have the heavier density.

Lets see if they were right.

This was the Hot Sauce, the pic was taken a few minutes after

the initial pouring so there was a bit of sinking, but at first there

was none.  The girls figured that the less dense ingredients must

have been emulsified with the heavier dense ingredience and

in the short amount of time there was a separation.

There guess about the oil was on target, they added

red food coloring in hopes to see a better difference.

And their guess on the vinegar was correct, vinegar

was a denser liquid than water

We also learned that butter is less dense than water, so why not

make our own butter and find out.  This is an easy and fun experiment. Churning

cream into butter.  All we needed was heavy whipping cream and two jars with lids.

and two girls that have strong arms!

There they were shaking, shaking and shaking. There was a point

that the cream turned to whipped cream and the girls

had to pour the wc into larger jars.  And began

shaking again.

And there it is BUTTER!  They were so excited about 

making butter that they forgot the density experiment.

Instead their minds started turning and remembered the story

Daddy told them, when he was a young boy his Mama would churn

butter and save the butter milk for him.  He would smear the fresh 

butter on some homemade cornbread and pour the fresh 

cold butter milk on top of the cornbread.  So, as a surprise for Daddy

they cooked up some corn bread, poured the butter milk (the left 

over liquid from the butter) in a glass and

put it in the refrigerator, till Daddy came home.

What a pleasant surprise his girls gave him...

Yummy, just like when he way a boy!

We took some of the butter and put it in a candy

mold to make pretty flower butter pats just like Laura Ingalls

Mother did in the book, Little House in the Big Woods.

What an Fun Filled  Day it was!!