DH brought some dry ice home last night from work. He put it in a bowl and added some water, the kids awwed at the smoke it made and the carbon monoxide bubbles. Then he put a little bit in a plastic water bottle and added water and capped it and tossed it in the far part of the yard, the kids watched it expand, and EXPLODE. The kids also wanted to see what it would do to leaves..... only made them really cold, they didn't shatter. (I think its liquid nitrogen that does that). :lol: Anyway it was well into my dinner cooking time and the kids were still in awe at the fog it was still making (added hot water several times). IT was fun for them.
Isn't it great to get to do these things with your children? I love all the little lessons we can pick up just around the house. Everything from the corn beginning to pollinate to why those bugs can walk on water, it's all fascinating. I'm glad to have the priviledge of teaching these things to my children. My children and I were going through some books we had picked up from the local library by David Attenborough. My husband said to me, "You guys are learning a lot from that little library." (We live in a REALLY small town, so our library is really small, too). I told him that I think it would be a shame to live on this wonderful planet and not learn everything you could. Children just have such a wonderful, natural love of learning, don't they? We're scientists from birth. Glad you're having fun with them... You never know what these little experiments will spark in them. Malissa in Texas
