OOBLECK!

Kids love to learn and they love to try new things and the love to get messy! One of our newest momstown events is our Kids Science Lab! Previously we made volcanoes, which were a huge hit with the kids! This month we made OOBLECK! The mysterious goop that isn't quite sure if it's a liquid or a solid! It's messy, it's slimy... it's FUN! We got the momstown mamas to mix up the coloured water (just a few drops of food colouring to plain old water!) and good old cornstarch. Moms had to get messy here as it's really hard to mix, turning into a solid as you get to the right consistency!! Once it was all mixed up we could dig in! Grabbing hand fulls of the hard mixture only to find out easily it turns to slimy goo!!! The kids dug right in! Some of the kids loved getting their hands dirty.... some weren't so sure about the gooey mess! But the sure moms had fun!!! The trick to keeping it solid it to keep it moving! The constant movement of your hands can keep the oobleck in a perfect ball! But as soon as you stop moving, it oozes through your fingers!!! Even our little scientist got in on the goopy fun!

Volcanos are a Blast!!!

Today our kiddies got their first taste of the fun that can be had with science! Today was our first momstown Science Lab!

Our kids got together and learned about volcanoes. They made their very own cool volcanoes with their own little hands... and the help of some mommy hands too!

It was an experiment that most of us adults have seen done at some point in time, and while quick and easy, the kids enjoyed and amazed at the miracle of science!


We filled their hand made volcanoes with baking soda and food colouring and the kids got to pour in the vinegar to make their volcano erupt!


The expressions were priceless as their volcanoes bubbled and overflowed with "lava".

This definitely was a cool way to end our week, teach our kids a little something and introduce them to the fun of science!