Ice exploration

With the chilly weather we've been having, it hasn't given us a lot of time to enjoy the outdoors.  So you may have noticed we have been bringing the outdoors inside to the children in the form of ice. We had ice to smash a few weeks ago, and recently coloured and dyed ice as an art activity. Something we haven't covered yet was the science of how ice melts and the different ways we can reach this result. At the end of last week we experimented a little and this is how it went.

First group waiting patiently for the ice to be uncovered

The kids concentrate very hard to direct the stream of water to consistently hit the ice in the same spot

At the end of the day everyone helped to rescue the animals from the icy eggs.