I'm the first to admit that Halloween isn't my favorite holiday. BUT...our jello worms did turn out amazing. The idea came from Divine Dinner Party, which I found via Pinterest.
Daddy took the kids Trick-or-Treating, while I handed out candy to a fairly small trickle of little neighbors. I opened a huge, Costco-sized bag of chocolate bars just in time for the very last Trick-or-Treater. So, the next day, let's just say, I was less-than-thrilled by the sugar overload around here.
So today, for our morning Mini-Lesson, we did some Candy Experiments. (I'm pleased to announce that we got rid of quite a lot of candy before the kids realized what I was really up to.)
For this first one, you simply put M&Ms or Skittles (the more, the merrier) letter-side up in a bowl of water. Can you see the floating Ms in there? It takes a few minutes for them to separate, but it's very cool.
Then we mixed candy colors.
Yellow candies+Blue candies=
Red + Blue=
And finally, Yellow+Red=
Tastiness, apparently.
Then, we tested tons of candies to see if they sink or float. That was Y's favorite. He must have put 8 packs of M&Ms in there. (Yes!)
Bubs and Welly had a competition. They each chose 6 candies. Whoever had more floaters was the winner. And the winner is...
Bubs did float a few wrappers, though.
It turned out to be a very fun Mini Lesson, made a small dent in our candy (Oh My!), and wrapped up our fun Halloween festivities.
K those jello worms look amazingly real, and I love all of your creative candy experiments. You are such a cute mom. Your kids look darling, and I can't wait for you to have your new baby...Hopefully we will get to see you one of these days:)
ReplyDeleteEmily your kids are darling, you worms are disgusting, and you candy idea is great. Mine are too little yet to get the idea but in a year or two we will so do that! We have WAY WAY WAY too much candy for the three of them to eat even in a year! Gosh!
ReplyDeletehow fun! I'm going to do this too!
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