- What is it gonna turn?
- [Both] What is it gonna turn?
- [All] What is it gonna turn?
What is it gonna turn?
(upbeat music)
- Good morning everyone,
today we are going to be doing a science experiment.
Are you guys excited about it?
- Science!
- Science! - Science!
- Science!
- So a lot of parents right now are
considering homeschooling their kids
or trying to figure out different ways to
do education from home and
so we're gonna start doing some
videos about how we homeschool.
And one of the things we like
to do is hands on science experiments.
We use-
whoa what are you gonna do?
(swoosh)
Okay there it is.
One of things we use is Kiwi Crates
and we did a sponsored post for them a while back.
We like them so much we actually purchased these ourselves.
- Yes and there's a spray bottle in there in this thing.
- Yeah, we're gonna open it up and find out what's inside.
- Yeah, and this gots to.
- But these are great and there are
kits like these that are really great.
They're hands on, they give a lot of information
on the science behind it,
they help the kids learn the scientific process,
of like coming up with a hypothesis
(swoosh)
and testing their results and all that stuff,
so it's really, really cool.
There are different boxes for different age groups,
we've talked about this company a lot,
I will being putting a referral link
in the description below,
because a lot of people have been asking about it.
Let's open this up and do some science.
- Yes, science!
- Let's see what's inside our box.
Ooh! (gasps)
- Oh, there's bowls.
- There are bowls.
- Oh, I took out something.
- What is this, this is like food coloring,
and we've got some olive oil.
- Olive oil?
- Ah, good, good, good, good, good.
- So we can eat this stuff?
- That's a Popeye's reference.
And a little spray bottle.
- Spray, spray, spray, spray.
- Ooh, this is really cool.
This is like a thing to form your bath bombs.
We got some protective gloves, we've got some bowls,
we have Epsom salt, we have citric acid,
we have baking soda, and we have corn starch.
And Jessica just brought us some project trays,
so that we don't get our table all messy.
- And I get the yellow one, OMG.
- We'll need some scrap paper,
and some water, and a large bowl.
Ready, one, two, three, go get it.
So while I got you alone here,
I'll kinda show you the manual, which is pretty cool.
It's got a messiness level one here,
so that parents know, oh this one's is a messy one,
apparently, which is good,
that's why Jessica brought out these trays.
And then the grown up involvement level is also on here,
so sometimes when I'm working on another project
or something and I don't have time to sit down
and focus on it, I'll choose something with a low-
Thank you, oh that's perfect, that is a big bowl.
I'll choose something with a low level
and let them work on that, usually that's coloring
or something along those lines
and when it's like medium or high,
then I get a little bit more involved.
- Hey dad.
- Yeah.
- This has to be here.
- Okay, that's perfect.
So the first thing it says,
is to cover your work surface with paper from home.
So since we have these trays,
the trays kinda help us out a little bit,
but we'll put this down on the table
just in case we spill outside the lines a little bit.
Okay, so we're gonna put on some kid gloves here,
which came with the kit.
Put this on your right hand.
Very nice, you figure out the fingers.
And it didn't come with these adult size gloves,
but I happen to have them for when I do guitar work.
- Hello, (laughs) my hand.
- Put your fingers in there, put your thumb in there,
and your fingers, yep, yep, there you go,
and then work your fingers in there.
Nice looks good buddy.
- Hey dad my-
You took yours off?
- Yeah.
- They wanted black gloves, so now we're all matchy matchy.
A chemical reaction is when two or more things
combine to make something new.
Bath bombs are made of three main ingredients,
citric acid, baking soda, and corn starch.
When a bath bomb touches water,
the citric acid and baking soda
start to dissolve and break down.
In the water, the citric acid molecules
and baking soda molecules are free to float around
and react with each other.
Together they create something new, carbon dioxide gas.
That's what bubbles up and creates all the foamy fizz.
Do you know what else has carbon dioxide gas in it?
Can you think of something that when you open it up,
it fizzes a little bit?
- Yes! - Yes!
- What?
- Sparkling water.
- Sparkling water, yeah, exactly.
So we need the baking soda.
- Baking soda.
Are these edible?
- No they are not edible, we are not gonna eat these.
Pour it in.
- All of it?
- All of it, whole thing, okay.
You pour all the corn starch in there.
- It is edible, but we're not gonna eat it.
- It is not edible, it will not be edible, don't eat soap.
Citric acid.
- [Duncan] Hey dad, I-
- And then we have Epsom salt,
not for food use, do not consume, Parker.
Pour that in there.
Very nice, okay now step two, put on gloves.
I think we went a little bit ahead of schedule there,
and mix the dry ingredients using your fingers.
So only with your glove hand,
you can reach in and mix it up.
Don't spill any.
- [Parker] My hand is all soap.
- While I mix it, you're gonna pour in the olive oil.
Okay, go ahead.
Don't pour it on me, pour it in.
Okay, that's good, that's good, that's good.
Okay now give it to Parker.
Good, good, okay.
- [Parker] Can I do it?
- Yeah you can mix too.
A lot of hands in this bowl.
(laughs)
Okay now we're gonna divide the mixture
evenly into three bowls.
One. - [Duncan] One.
- [Chris] Two. - [Duncan] Two.
- [All] Three.
- Pour it out into each bowl.
Try to make it as even as possible.
Even as possibowl.
Get it, cause they're bowls.
Choose a liquid color and add six drops
of it into one of the bowls.
I'm gonna let Parker choose first.
Parker what color do you wanna do?
- Yellow.
- What color do you wanna do?
- This one.
- Red?
- Yeah.
- Okay and I'll do blue.
- [Duncan] One.
- [Chris] Ooh, good counting.
- [Duncan And Parker] One, two,
three, four,
five,
six.
- Now I mix it with my fingers, like this.
And I rub the little specks together.
It's kinda like, you remember in
The Cat in the Hat, when they were making pink snow?
- Mm-hmm.
Cat in the Hat Comes Back,
that's kinda what you're doing here with your spots.
You're gonna make it one big pink spot.
- [Parker] Can I go next?
- [Chris] Get all of your snow.
Okay, yeah, go ahead.
- [All] One, two, three, four,
five,
six.
- Okay, now mix it together.
Go real slow, real slow, don't squeeze it too much.
Ooh boy, okay, that's probably enough actually.
Whoa boy it's bubbling, it's bubbling.
- [Duncan] Yeah.
- [Chris] Get it mixed up with your glove hand.
Oh boy, so we have a pastely yellow, pastely blue.
- Yeah and pastely red.
- Good, okay, excellent.
So now you're gonna spray one spray into your bowl.
- Let's see what happens.
- [Chris] Okay, good, now mix it together with your glove.
Spray it into your bowl.
Good, good, good.
Now mix it with your glove hand.
So you spray it and then you mix it
and you try to clump it together
and if it holds really well.
See how it's kinda coming apart?
It's not ready yet, so I need to mix it
really well and then spray it one more time.
- We're doing good.
- We're doing great, this is excellent science.
- Ahhh, daddy.
- Ooh that's looking good.
It's looking good, do you think yours is ready?
- It's taking apart.
- No.
- Yeah, it's getting there, it's getting there.
Part B.
- Part B!
- Pick a design disk.
Do you wanna do the penguin or the seal?
- This one.
- Okay, so now we go a little penguin in there.
A cute little penguin.
So we're gonna put different colors in here
and we're gonna pack them in as much
as we can with our fingers.
So what colors do you want to go in here?
- This one.
- Okay, so we'll put some of this in here.
- [Duncan] No, no, this one!
- [Chris] You wanna put this one in first?
- [Duncan] Yeah.
- Okay so we'll put that one in, pack it down.
Can you pack it with your finger?
You just poke, poke, poke.
Poke, poke, poke, good.
- Which one do you want next?
- That one.
- Ooh, you want some yellow.
Can you put some yellow in there?
Very nice.
Now we're gonna take this and we're gonna
put paper on top and flip it around
and we're gonna push down as hard as we can.
So can you push down on that?
Hard as you can.
Oh, good.
Parker, do you want a turn?
- Yeah.
- Whoa, using some gymnastics skills here.
Okay, we don't want to bend it, that's good, that's good.
Then we're going to go like this.
And we should see.
Aah, it didn't pack in enough.
It got close, it got close.
- [Duncan] Yeah.
- [Chris] But didn't get all the way packed in.
So what we'll do is we'll put it back in
and we'll pack it even harder, okay?
Let me put it back in, try this one more time.
- And if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
- Then we'll have to do some thinking
to figure out why it didn't work.
Good push and we'll give it a good squeeze.
(gasps)
Oh boy, it kinda worked, kinda worked.
That's our first one, Parker wanted to do
the little sea lion, seal thing.
So that's what we're gonna do now.
Blue's next.
- [Duncan] No, no, after that one, you want this one?
- [Chris] Whoa, whoa, make sure it all gets inside there.
Go ahead and give it a push.
Okay that's probably good.
Okay,
now carefully.
(gasps)
There you go, there's a little seal.
- Oh, it looks beautiful.
- Okay now I get to do one.
Let me ask you a question Duncan,
what is your favorite color?
- Orange.
- Duncan has been learning about colors
and he has learned that red and blue make and yellow
are primary colors and you can mix these three colors
to make the other three colors,
which are called secondary colors,
like orange, and purple, and green.
And Duncan, what's your favorite color?
- Orange.
- Orange, okay so which two colors
would we mix together to make orange?
I'll give you the first guess.
And Parker will pick the second one.
So you pick one color, which color do you think we mix?
Yellow, okay.
- And I think red.
- Red, okay so we're gonna mix yellow and red
and see if we get orange.
(whimsical music)
Okay Duncan, so look what we've made.
It's not red, and it's not yellow.
(Parker sneezes)
Whoa, Gesundheit.
It is sorta a peachy-orange.
Yeah we did it.
Okay for mine, I'm gonna a take a little bit of blue,
put it right up here,
little bit of blue, right up here.
Scrap of any extra and then I'm gonna
let it go back down and fill it up with the orange.
Loud day.
- [Duncan] Yeah.
- I have another question for ya, you ready?
- Um-hmm.
- Okay if I took some blue and put it in this bowl
and I mixed in some red,
what color do you think I would get?
- Purple.
- You think it's gonna be purple?
Let's find out.
- I think it's gonna be purple.
- Let's mix it together and find out what we get.
- What is it gonna turn?
- [Both] What is it gonna turn?
- [All] What is it gonna turn?
What is it gonna turn?
- It almost looks like the same color as my shirt.
Look at that.
Making a nice little purple.
Set it right here, give it a push.
- [All] Yeah!
- I like that, it looks great.
Okay, let the bath bombs dry for at least half a day,
then drop one into water and watch it bubble.
So through the magic of editing,
right now we're gonna skip ahead six hours into the day.
All righty we are back and now it's time
for the results of our bath bomb experiment.
We've got a tub of warm water here.
You guys ready for an experiment?
- Yes!
- Okay you wanna see what the bath bomb looks like?
- Yes!
- Okay I'll be right back, stay right where you are.
Here we go.
This is what they look like.
- Oh.
- Look at it.
- Wow.
- Whoa.
- Wait, what?
- So I put them in the sun,
so that they would dry out sooner,
and they turned more into more like bath bomb cookies.
(laughs)
So they totally melted.
You can see them there, totally melted.
Whoops, but I think we can still try the experiment
and see if we get a chemical reaction.
What do you guys thinks?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, but how do we get them off of there?
- Which one should we do?
- This one.
- You wanna do this big one.
All right let's see if can.
- Cut them.
- Oh it's just crumbly, very crumbly.
- Like cookies.
- Oh, that's a crumbly cookie.
Okay well here we go, we've got some crumbles.
One, two, three.
- Only a little bit of bubble.
- Only a little bit of bubbles, it's starting to bubble.
Yeah we're getting a little bit of bubblage.
Oh, here we go, here we go, they're starting to bubble.
Here we'll put that in there, see what happens there.
So the corn starch is starting to break away
and allow the molecules of the
baking soda and the citric acid to work together
and create bubbles.
It woulda been more exciting I think
if it was a more successful bath bomb, but still fun.
Still a fun experiment and we're
still getting a chemical reaction, which is very important.
- We got a chemical reaction.
- There's also a really important lesson
for parents out there, that your science experiments
or your lessons don't have to go exactly
how you have them planned in your head,
they don't have to be exactly perfect
in order for you to learn something
and to get a good experience together,
as a family, so it's good stuff, right?
- Yeah, we can just shout our bath bomb cookie
out of the place and put them in the bath tub.
- Yeah, shoot them out of the place,
put them in the bath tub.
And this is one of things you learn in science.
Sometimes your experiments
don't turn out how you hypothesized, right?
- Yeah.
- Anyway, thank you guys so much for watching today's video,
if you would like to learn more
about how we educate our kids,
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