Huff and Puff

One of the books that girls currently enjoy is The Three Little Pigs.  Every day Lila will point out things that a wolf could blow away and assure us that we were all safe in our house because it is made of bricks.  I took this as an opportunity to talk about the force of air and how it moves things.  We did a couple of different things to explore this. 

Here is what we used in our first experiment......

I gave them each a post it with "yes or no" on it.  They had to guess if it would blow away or if it wouldn't.  Each of them had a straw and used it to try to blow objects away.

A filled up balloon moved easily

A balloon that was not blown up did not move easily

Lila determined that things that were heavy would not move when we blew air on them.  Things that were light traveled far.

An empty cup moved all over!

A cup with water did not move.

The final sort of what moved and what didn't.

Will paint move?  Lila was a bit skeptical.

The thicker the paint, the harder it was to blow around.

I added a bit of water to thin out the paint and the fun began.

Balloon races!  Who is the fastest?  We used straws to blow the balloon to the finish line.

Obsessed with winning

We ended up ditching the straws.....

Feather racing

Cotton balls-Sophia decided to call it quits by then.

 It was a pretty fun morning for us!