Try It Tuesday
Try It Tuesday
For Try it Tuesday, I wanted the focus to be on experiments and science. My sister is a doctor and her husband a trained engineer, and I know the oldest of their boys is very interested in different STEM concepts—especially dinosaurs.
There were no dinosaurs in our experiments, but there were a few science concepts introduced.
Try it Tuesday Craft
This craft was a combination of safety education for the boys while we were at the lake that week, and age suitable finger painting.
It was painting with sunscreen!
I brought a slew of black construction paper up and then gave them a tube of sunscreen and let them finger paint. Then, while we worked on other projects, we put them out in the sun…it was a little cloudy that day but still worked alright. At the end of the morning, we went out and scraped it off to see how it stayed darker than the paper where there was no sunscreen because their painting spots were protected…like their skin!
Try It Tuesday Snack
For the snack for Try it Tuesday we practiced our experimental process at a preschool level. No lab reports for these kids, just try it and then reflect.
I bought a yellow apple, a red apple, and a green apple and sliced them up. Each of the boys got a handout similar to this one at Keeping My Kiddo Busy. They were able to color the apple. We had them describe them on the original sheet – which I didn’t save. However, without reading and writing abilities the above printable may be a little more appropriate. Once they had rated the apples – they could eat the one they liked!
Try It Tuesday Book
A good book to read would be a version of Johnny Appleseed. There are many versions, of course, or you can just retell it! My family sings the Johnny Appleseed song as a prayer before meals, so it is especially fitting.
Try It Tuesday Activity
It was typical July in Minnesota the year we were at the lake. It had been cloudy when we tried to do the sunblock painting earlier, so we looked at how clouds and rain worked with our experiment that day.
We made our experiment very simple. We took a glass of water and spread a layer of dish soap on top. Then we took food coloring droppers and watched how the drops filtered through the layer of soap into the water, or atmosphere, because they are heavier.
We did it pretty simply because we were traveling, and I didn’t want to haul everything to the lake with me.
Another take on this activity is a rain cloud in a jar. It is the same idea, except instead of dish soap you create a “cloud” with shaving cream.
Either way, it is a quick little lesson in how rain falls but not the cloud!
To finish off the day, speaking of clouds, we went outside to find our sunblock paintings and scrapped off the dried parts to see how the sun had protected that part of the paper.
Then, knowing even if it was cloudy we needed to wear it, we slathered up and went to the pool!
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