Category: Food Science
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Make Your Own Color Changing Butterfly Pea Tea

This delicious, beautiful, color changing sweet tea is sure to be the highlight of your kid party this summer. Butterfly pea flowers have a special property that makes them great pH indicators. The flowers pigment changes color depending on the pH of whatever it is mixed with. You can make…
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Chocolate Covered Strawberry Science!

Happy Valentines Day, friends! Let’s heat up the kitchen… check out my latest post on incorporating science while making chocolate covered strawberries with the Great Lakes Science Center! Also, check out my short video on Instagram!
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DIY Solar Oven: Fun Summer Science Experiment

The kids might be back in school but there is still time to squeeze in some last minute science experiments. The girls and I made our own solar ovens! The best part about this end of summer experiment is that kids can set it up before school and see the…
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Fun Fall Experiments for Preschoolers

Disclaimer: These are fall science experiments for kids. They were provided in an article for the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The article can be found here. It’s fall! And if you have participated in apple picking or have some apples at home, try out these fun fall…
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The Skittles Rainbow Experiment – Learning the Art of Chemistry!

If your kids love skittles as much as mine do, this experiment is a must do! Your little chemist will study and learn about diffusion! While they are at it, they can also experiment and make some fun art!
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Introducing Science through making Ice Cream

We’ve had some unusually HOT days this fall, which made for a great excuse to make and EAT some of my favorite dessert – ice cream! This turned out to be a really fun activity to do with the kids and I highly recommend using SCIENCE as your next excuse…
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Become a Food Chemist this Easter and Experiment with Peeps

DISCLAIMER: I am an Amazon Associate and may earn from qualifying purchases made from the links in this post at no additional cost to you. Young children love experimenting… their entire day truly is just experimentation – so less structure is better and it’s more fun when introducing new concepts…
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Halloween Candy Experiments

Halloween is here! If you are like me, we always have tons of candy that lasts us weeks on end. Did you know that you can use leftover Halloween candy for experiments? I love Halloween. Seeing the smiles on my children’s faces when they finally pick out the PERFECT costume,…
