Aravis and I ran to our dollar store that's just around the corner. She asked if she could get a coloring book and I said yes. Nearby, there was also a display of workbooks for various subjects. She chose a math workbook. I'm not exactly a believer in the learning authenticity of school type workbooks but she LOVES them! So, we spent the evening curled up on the couch doing word problems. Dominick was wandering around the house with a coke bottle and asked me if I knew of an experiment he could do with a glass bottle. I didn't know of anything so I told him to google it. This is what he found.
First, Tanner saturated a piece of yarn with nail polish remover and tied it tightly around the glass.
Next, Dominick (whose hands had not been touching nail polish remover) held it over the sink and set the string on fire. He rotated it slowly and allowed it to burn for about 30 seconds before submersing it in cold water. The glass broke in half! The contrast between the very hot temperature of the fire and the cold temperature of the water concentrated around the string causes the glass to separate in that area.
We had to try it a few times and we never got it to work on the Coke bottle but it worked the first time on a root-beer bottle.
It sounded like ice cracking when it snapped in two
We've been listening to The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane on audio book and I thought it might be fun to make an Edward Tulane paper doll for Aravis to make clothes for. She was very enthusiastic about it when I suggested it, but by the time I finished Edward she wasn't very interested in making any clothes for him so I made him some myself.
She liked mine
playing with Cuisenaire rods
We put a light under some plexiglass and got some very pretty results playing with these rocks and tiles.
Then, we cleaned up and went to bed!
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