An Eggciting Experiment

This super simple experiment making butter is as tasty as it is fun! With just a few “ingredients,” you can level up your morning toast with something YOU made. Take a look at the video, and when you’re ready, check out the instructions below so you can do it yourself at home!

This experiment might need the help of adults, so make sure to stay near your kiddos. Oh, and please be sure to remove the marbles before you enjoy your mixture!

Experiment Instructions

For printer-friendly instructions for this experiment, click HERE to download the lesson plan.

What’s the STEAM?

With this experiment, kids will get their hands busy doing some food science and basic chemistry. By shaking the cream vigorously for a few minutes, the fat molecules in the cream shake out of place and clump together. This becomes the butter that we all know and love to eat! Oh, and you’ll get the bonus of having buttermilk with the leftover liquid from the heavy cream!

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Is it really possible for pepper to defy gravity? Well, with static electricity it is! This is a super simple experiment that will teach you little ones about electrical charges. Take a look at the video, and when you’re ready, check out the instructions below so you can do it yourself at home!

In this experiment, we used towels fresh out of the dryer because we knew they would hold a ton of static! Have you ever shocked yourself grabbing a load of laundry out of the dryer? That was static electricity too!

Experiment Instructions

For printer-friendly instructions for this experiment, click HERE to download the lesson plan.

What’s the STEAM?

So, what’s the science behind this experiment? According to Dictionary.com, static electricity is a stationary electric charge, typically produced by friction, which causes sparks or crackling or the attraction of dust or hair.

When we rub the balloon on the towel, an electric charge is transferred from the towel to the balloon. With the balloon now “charged” we were able to attract the pepper. If we rubbed the balloon on an object that didn’t have a charge to transfer, the balloon didn’t charge and did not attract the pepper to itself. Charges are either positive, negative, or neutral. Positive and negative charges are attracted to each other while neutral charges neither attract nor repel. In science, a positive charge is called a proton, a negative charge is called an electron and a neutral charge is called a neutron.

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