Rainbows

It's amazing all the projects you can do with rainbows.

You can make a permanent rainbow with water, clear nail polish, and black construction paper:





Then there's the ever-popular color-changing milk experiment:



Window hangings made with yarn and squares of paint chips:



And my absolute favorite, the rainbow cake. I found the idea here, but it seems my round cake pans are on the missing list, so I improvised. It won't be the same effect when cut into, but pretty all the same!

I took some shortcuts. I grabbed one box of white cake and followed the usual instructions (eggs, oil, water).


Separate into six bowls and color with gel food coloring.



I put mine in a regular 9x13 pan.


And baked, using the instructions on the box.


It's still cooling now, but we'll be frosting it tonight. We've got rainbow sprinkles to add the finishing touch!

Weather Week

We had a gorgeous weekend and spent most of the time outdoors, which was wonderful! However, this morning brought with it wind, rain, and snow flurries, so we didn't get out much. In an attempt to get back on track after last week, I've planned out this week to be dedicated to learning about weather. On the agenda today -- clouds.

We spent time this morning online, looking through pictures of types of clouds. Later on, we read books about clouds that we found at the library.



We dipped cotton balls into water to demonstrate what happens when clouds cannot hold anymore water.



We used more cotton balls for our art project today.



I boiled water and let T hold his hands over it to feel the water evaporating because of the heat.



We also poured a little bit of water into a Ziploc bag, taped it to the window in the sun, and watched a mini version of the water cycle as it evaporated, condensed at the top, and eventually fell back down into the bottom of the bag.



I had been planning to do this cloud-in-a-bottle experiment, but I accidentally threw out the bottle I had set aside to use. Hopefully I'll get to it later on in the week.