The Naked Egg Experiment - Guest Post

Samantha Williams from The Day Well Spent is back with an amazing, easy, two-ingredient, one-step experiment that kids love!

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The Naked Egg experiment. I found this a few days ago via Pinterest and it certainly caught my eye. I went to the website it was pinned from and watched the video, then I showed the video to Jack and we both decided this was something we had to try. So Saturday afternoon we gathered our supplies and got to it.

Guys this was so much fun. Before we started we happened to mention to grandma what we were going to do and she thought it was so cool that she also did her own naked egg experiment. I think Jack had as much fun watching her bounce her egg as he did his own! This is such an easy and incredibly fun activity that requires basic ingredients most already have in their home. I highly recommend giving it a try yourself!

All you need: An egg, a jar and vinegar.

The experiment takes 12-24 hours so I took a picture every time I noticed a change in the egg.

      

and then finally it was done! Squishy, squishy!

Of course, they will still...break.

If you want to try this yourself, check out this page for all you need to know! how to make a naked egg!

 

Erupting Colors - Contributor Post

Today, Samantha Williams, who now blogs over at The Day Well Spent, gives us a tutorial on how to make the most beautiful paintings ever.

Erupting colors.

What you need:
a pan with edges (a cake or pie pan works well)
food coloring
milk (we used whole milk, my cousin used 1% and the results were not as good)
dish detergent (I recommend basic blue dawn)

What you need to do:

1. Pour milk into the cake pan until the bottom is covered. 

2 Sprinkle several drops of food coloring on the milk.

3. Add a few drops of dishwashing detergent in the centers of the largest drops of coloring. 

4. Watch the resulting eruption of colors. 

5. If erupting slows down, try adding more food coloring and then more detergent. If the experiment wont work after a while, begin again from clean milk and add new drops of color and detergent.

6. When experiment is complete, pan washes easily in warm water. 

7. Take lots of pictures because the results seriously look like art.

To take it a step further, we then laid paper on top of the milk to see if we could transfer the images.

This is the result: