This activity is always enjoyed by my kids, mainly because they get to eat candy!
What you need:
- heart shaped dish (we used one from Target)
- warm water
- pipette
- Skittles
- warm water
- pipette
- Skittles
How it works:
Once the initial and very much necessary taste test is complete, let your kids enjoy making a colorful pattern of Skittles around the outside edge of the dish. This is great for color recognition and vocabulary, as well as working on those all-important fine motor skills.
Once the pattern is complete, add some warm water to the middle of the dish using the pipette. Watch as the color from the candy gradually seeps into the middle of the dish!
Big bro's carefully made pattern looked really cool! Baby sis had gone for a more 'throw it all in' approach and it still looked pretty cool too!
After the experiment, I provided some spoons and let them both investigate how the warm water had changed the Skittles. They enjoyed trying to see if they could flip the Skittles and add more warm water to make all of the color disappear on each Skittle.
This is such an easy little experiment to set up and it really does engage kids because of the candy-factor! The patterns always come out so pretty too.
Once the pattern is complete, add some warm water to the middle of the dish using the pipette. Watch as the color from the candy gradually seeps into the middle of the dish!
Big bro's carefully made pattern looked really cool! Baby sis had gone for a more 'throw it all in' approach and it still looked pretty cool too!
After the experiment, I provided some spoons and let them both investigate how the warm water had changed the Skittles. They enjoyed trying to see if they could flip the Skittles and add more warm water to make all of the color disappear on each Skittle.
This is such an easy little experiment to set up and it really does engage kids because of the candy-factor! The patterns always come out so pretty too.
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