Science Rendezvous / Mother's Day Weekend
This weekend Brian was away at a LAN party with his friends. This was two fold. One, for a fun weekend away and two, he needed to get some friends to sign his passport paperwork to get his new passport done.
So, while he was away the kids and I enjoyed a fun day at the University of Ontario in Oshawa. There was 4 fun filled hours of science. While there was so much to do, I will list only a few of the highlights...
The kids had beakers filled with coloured water and dry ice, and placed bubbles on top to make dry ice bubbles. (Fan favourite) They spent some time doing forensics using magnetic powder to see their finger prints. They walked through a mock crime scene where they had to solve puzzles to find out who did it.
There was a biodiversity dig where they discovered different rocks, and looked at cool bugs.
There was a dry ice rainbow that helped them to understand PH levels. Acid versus base. They put their hands on the fun electricity ball where they could watch the plasma follow their hand and even light up an LED light bulb just by them coming close to each other.
We made ice cream with liquid nitrogen, and butter with salt water and creamers and a little shaking.
Easton loved the water rockets that he could set off. We put mentos in diet coke and watched it explode. The kids planted some flowers, and played with oobleck. Hadley had fun with the clothes pins as she used them to pick up small pieces of feathers and other items to make a nest as a bird would. They made structures out of jube jubes and tooth picks. Then there was a fun trivia challenge from the day, and prizes were given out. We only did about 3/4 of what was there. So much fun FREE stuff to explore! It was amazing!
After we enjoyed dinner at McDonalds and this was followed by time at the blue park. I had heard a lot of kids at school talking about it, so I decided to take the kids there, and sure enough... it was like I remember my childhood. After dinner everyone goes to the park. 5 kids from Easton's class were there plus about 10 others from the school that I recognized. Easton thought this was like an ultimate play date! Hadley met Madeline who was visiting her grandma and they really hit it off.
What a lovely day!
Happy Mothers Day!