Kids love to play with balloons so I thought this science experiment would capture Deen’s interest.
All you need to do is:
- Tie a balloon onto a bottle.
- Fill up a dish/container with hot water. (I used a bread pan).
- Fill up a dish/container with cold ice. (I wish I had another bread pan)
When you put the balloon bottle in hot water the balloon inflates. The reason it does this is because there is air in the bottle.
When you put it into the iced water the balloon deflates.
Great idea, my son would love this! Once it’s not 105 outside, we are going to try it 🙂
What a great idea! Thanks for sharing. I love how the experiment changed too, so that you reinforced temperature effects on water, practice pouring, etc.
Great and easy! We found a fun one in a book from the library that’s similar. You use a funnel to put baking soda in your balloon and put some vinegar in the plastic bottle. Do your best to get the balloon mouth over the bottle’s mouth and then dump the baking soda into the vinegar. I don’t think it’s a fun as making “lava,” but we’ve done it three separate times at K’s request.
Thanks for reminding me of this experiment!
I’ve never heard of this experiment! We are planning to do the one with a balloon and baking soda and vinegar, but now I think we’ll do this one as well – thanks for a great idea! Also, Nadia, thanks for the very kind and sweet comment you left for me this week – I appreciated it so much and it made me feel great – thank you!!
Thanks Nicole! Your blog is always so inspiring and I love checking up on it (even though that may not always be as often as I would like). I have still yet to find a way to keep up to date with all my favorite blogs. Checking out blogs could easily take me 30-60 minutes a day (using a blog reader) that I have hardly been checking them and that adds up to more and more posts that are in my waiting list to read.
this I honestly think is great experament.