Brilliant use of Valentine's, Easter, Halloween, and other holiday candy! Fun, colorful, and full of surprises, Candy Experiments will have kids happily pouring their candy down the drain and learning some basic science along the way.
Candy is more than a sugary snack. With candy, you can become a scientific detective. You can test candy for secret ingredients, peel the skin off candy corn, or float an “m” from M&M’s. You can spread candy dyes into rainbows, or pour rainbow layers of colored water. You'll learn how to turn candy into crystals, sink marshmallows, float taffy, or send soda spouting skyward. You can even make your own lightning.
Candy Experiments teaches kids a new use for their candy. As children try eye-popping experiments, such as growing enormous gummy worms and turning cotton candy into slime, they’ll also be learning science. Best of all, they’ll willingly pour their candy down the drain.
Candy Experiments contains 70 science experiments, 29 of which have never been previously published. Chapter themes include secret ingredients, blow it up, sink and float, squash it, and other fun experiments about color, density, and heat. The book is written for children between the ages of 7 and 10, though older and younger ages will enjoy it as well. Each experiment includes basic explanations of the relevant science, such as how cotton candy sucks up water because of capillary action, how Pixy Stix cool water because of an endothermic reaction, and how gummy worms grow enormous because of the water-entangling properties.
Our Thoughts
What are you going to do with all that Halloween candy that is just sitting in a bag? Are you going to let your kids gorge themselves? Are you going to let them ration it throughout the year? Are you going to take it to work with you to share the wealth with your co-workers? Or like some of us, are you just going to throw it out?
You don't have to wonder anymore with Candy Experiments. It takes the most popular candies and helps you make them into a fun science experiment! My kids absolutely loved doing weird things with their Halloween candy and can't wait till Easter to do more!
This book is a great idea for the kids in your life between the ages of 3-90. Yes, I did say 90! Even though the kids had fun with this, so did my husband!!
Check out the book on Amazon: Candy Experiments
***Please note that I received no form of monetary compensation for this post. The opinions expressed in the review are my own and were not influenced in any way.***
I'm so glad you enjoyed the experiments. One of the reasons we wrote the book was because we loved doing all the crazy things with candy--glad your family likes them, too! Have you tried the cotton candy slime yet? That's one of my favorites.
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