Monday, no school, candy experiments!

This morning we got out the leftover candy we didn't hand out and the candy Alex traded in and started experimenting! Alex was most interested in the simple tests - does it float or sink? Will it crumble or dissolve? What will it look like when all the color comes off?

We got our ideas from this article and a little google work on our own.

I haven't had luck with the chromatography yet but once I am done here we are going up to give it another try.

We had lots of fun with the color density rainbow! Pouring the colors together without mixing them was tricky but we worked out a system.

We even started a lab notebook to document our findings :) Alex tells me what results to write down.

We've been surprised by how much wax is in candy.

Nerds were really fun to dissolve because the color and wax comes out and pretty much leaves clear sugar crystals.

We find ourselves now wishing we would have bought different trick or treat candy, or maybe visited a few more houses....not because we want more treats to eat but because we haven't gotten a really good acid test result and we don't have any really sour treats to try out and we only got two small bags of skittles so we can't try and make a brighter better rainbow!