Marissa's Mommy Moments: Rain in a Jar

Today we did a really neat science experiment. It didn't turn out exactly the way I thought it would based on the pictures and instructions we followed, but it looked super cool and Moneky loved it!

I found the idea here: http://www.growingajeweledrose.com/2014/02/rain-clouds-in-jar-experiment.html?m=1

This is a great blog for all sorts of activities but I especially love the sensory ideas.

Supplies: shaving cream, glass jar, food colouring, droppers, plastic containers

First we made the cloud. I filled the jar 3/4 of the way with water, then topped it off with the shaving cream.

Next we got the water ready to fill up the cloud. We had four small plastic dishes which I filled with water. Monkey added s few drops of food colouring to each one.

Now we were all ready to go. We used the droppers to fill the cloud with the coloured water.

We had to stick the droppers right into the shaving cream, otherwise it mostly just ran down the sides.

You can kind of see in the pictures that the food colouring was sinking down through the cloud and into the water. It took some time to get enough into the cloud for this to happen, just like real clouds filling up with water before they rain.

It looked awesome!

Once we were done with the cloud, Monkey was itching to get his hands into the shaving cream. So I transferred everything to our sensory bin and told him to go nuts!!