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Nestle Family Summer Block Party: Day 2

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Are you having fun at the Block Party so far? Thanks to all of you who commented on yesterdays post and have strolled to the other sites participating! Each blog is featuring Summer tips with different themes daily, so make sure you visit them to read (and enter their giveaways, too!).

The Not-So Blog

For today’s Backyard Science Project, it’s time to get messy! Who doesn’t love a good volcano, right? I found a great protocol for a backyard volcano from FamilyEducation.com.  Here’s how to get started:

materials

Baking pan, Soda bottle (16 or 20 oz.), Moist soil, 1 tablespoon baking soda, 1 cup vinegar, Red food coloring
and the great outdoors!

Place the baking pan on the grass, and set the soda bottle in the middle of the pan.  Mound and shape the moist soil around the bottle to form a mountain. Bring the soil right up to the top of the bottle’s opening, but don’t get the soil inside the bottle.  Next, pour one tablespoon of baking soda into the bottle.  Color one cup of vinegar with red food coloring and pour the colored vinegar into the bottle. Stand back and watch red foam spray out of the top and down the mountain like lava from a volcano!

GIVEAWAY

Your reward for attending today’s block party?  Another great prize pack from Nestle!  Today’s package includes:

An assortment of FREE coupons from the following brands:

JUICY JUICE®, OVALTINE®, EDY’S®/DREYER’S®, CARNATION® Breakfast Essentials, WONKA®, STOUFFER’S®, NESQUIK®, TOLL HOUSE® Refrigerated Cookie Dough, TOLL HOUSE® Morsels, DRUMSTICK® Sundae Cones and NESTLÉ® Pure Life

How to enter:

1. Tell me what was your favorite science project you did as a child?  Or what has been your child’s favorite science lesson?

Additional entries:

1. Blog about this giveaway and link to The Not-So-Blog and NESTLE FAMILY (10 extra entries).

2. Follow me (@BridgetteLA) on Twitter and Tweet this giveaway. Every time you tweet you get an additional entry! Unlimited! (You must have over 50 Twitter followers to qualify for unlimited entries!)

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7.  Follow the other Block Party Hosts on Twitter and get 4 extra entries! (@OHMommy, @sarann, @ReneeJRoss, @247Moms)

Contest ends at 11:59pm CST on July 21st. Prizes not claimed in 72 hours will be forfeited. Open to U.S. Residents only.

The Block Party is sponsored by Nestle Family.  I was compensated for participating in this series, but all opinions remain 100% mine.

407 thoughts on “Nestle Family Summer Block Party: Day 2”

  1. My daughter is too little for structured science lessons, but last year we ket a tank of tadpoles until they turned into frogs & she loved that. She’d check the tank every day to see if they had grown legs yet!

  17. Last year I helped my youngest son make a rainbow for his science fair project. We had a lot of fun and he loved showing how it worked to his class.
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  29. we actually did a volcano similar to this in school. but noone thought to add the dye (figues) anyway i think i am going to do this with my daughter with the dye thanks for the reminder

  30. we actually did a volcano similar to this in school. but noone thought to add the dye (figues) anyway i think i am going to do this with my daughter with the dye thanks for the reminder

  31. we actually did a volcano similar to this in school. but noone thought to add the dye (figues) anyway i think i am going to do this with my daughter with the dye thanks for the reminder

  42. we did magnet expeirments but I think this is a great idea. would love to try this with my 9 yr old!

  45. My favorite science project was in the 5th grade and I did “Does Water boil faster with or without a lid?” I know it sounds simple enough but I won the science fair that year over my whole grade! It was a great experience!

  47. I think one of my favorite science projects as a child was building a model of the solar system using styrofoam balls. Thanks!
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  64. i like trying to make the contraption so the egg wouldn’t break when falling from the roof
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  86. My favorite science experiment was a class experiment in the 6th grade. Mr. Houseman our teacher was having us put various chemicals into ballons which we were going to go outside and release into the air, and we would see which ones would plummet to the ground first due to getting to a chemical freezing point first. The ballons were labeled and colored so we’d know which chemical was put into each balloon.
    Anyways, and this is no lie, it truly happened. Our teacher opened a bottle of embalming fluid (yep, embalming fluid like for the dead) and was via a flunnel pouring the fluid into the ballon. The bottle slipped out of his hand, and the glass shattered and the embalming fluid spilled on the floor and the flumes started burning everyones eyes and people started coughing.
    A girl a couple of rooms away went into an asthma attack.
    The school was evacuated because of the fumes. Everyone at the elementary school got out for the last two hours of school, so janitors with face masks could come and clean up the hazardous spill and all the windows could be opened up to air the building out for the night.
    There was actually still a smell the next day in our classroom, but thankfully it wasn’t horrid and though cool outside it was warm enough with our coats on to have class.
    That was my favorite experiment because of all the drama and also getting out of school early.
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  94. My favorite science project was building the Solar System. Thanks for the chance!
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  108. This isn’t exactly my son’s favorite science lesson (singular)…but, last year, my son was chosen to attend the Exxon Mobil Bernard Harris Science Camp at up Oregon State University. My son lived on campus for almost two weeks and participated in small group educational activities. It was truly a privilege for him and a wonderful learning experience. My husband is a chemist (now working as an engineer) so hopefully my kids will develop their interest in science.

  114. Favorite science projects were always something to do with the study of nature, even hiked, collected things and kept a journal when I was a teen

  117. My absolute favorite science project as a kid in elementary school was my volcano. My dad helped me make it, and when we turned it on, it ozze fake lava. The class went wild.

  127. I liked it when we got to put different substances together and they either changed color or preferably bubbled up and over the test tubes.

  130. The one my daughter and I always liked to do together was make silly putty, she always had a big supply and it saved me money and was easy to do

  134. What I remember doing for my own project was food coloring with aspirin in flowers, carnations. The food coloring turned the flowers whatever color and aspirin made the flowers last longer.

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  140. I hated science as a child because I wasn’t good at it, but I remember having to make a cooler out of household items that would not melt an ice cube when put in the schools boiler room.

  145. The science project I remember was making the planet earth out of a balloon covered with paper mache. It was a fun project. Thanks.

  146. I loved doing the volcano with vinegar and baking soda! My son hasn’t really done any science experiments yet…we look at a lot of bugs and worms. Maybe I’ll pull out the baking soda and vinegar today…

  163. My kids are young so have not done a whole lot of science projects so far, my favorite was when we learned about plant life by growing our own from seeds and keeping track of the progress. I have always thought those volcano projects were very cool, hope some day we can do one.

  165. I don’t remember doing any science projects but my daughter had to make a toothpick bridge in 9th grade that had to support a can of pop. That was a fun project.

  172. I honestly always hated science but did look forward to our science teacher bringing us out into the woods behind the school to look for frogs, fossels, and such.

  173. I was never much of a science kid, but I remember clearly the day the chick hatched from the egg we had in the classroom. That was amazing and had quite an impact on me.

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  181. I hated, hated, hated science (and I still do), so this is going to be a tough one…I never did a science project, but I more or less liked when we studied clouds and rocks in Earth Science in high school.

  184. We loved doing the volcano project with my daughter in 3rd grade. We’ve also had to do several of egg drop projects! Interesting to see what the kids come up with to encase the eggs and see how they work!
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  201. I remember doing a comparison of bleaches on different kinds of stains for science fair. I didn’t win though.

  207. When I was in school, we didn’t have science projects. However, my son’s favorite was popping various brands of microwave popcorn, to see which one popped the best. He got an A!

  210. My kids loved hatching the butterflies out. We started planting a butterfly garden to attract ‘wild’ butterflies after that.

  220. I’m not sure what my favorite science project was, but I can tell you what it definitely was not: frog dissection. Yuck!

  228. we made a volcano when I was a kid with a old coke glass bottle an tons of melted crayons,thats about all I can remember about it

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  248. My favorite project was making a model of the solar system. So far my granddaughter’s favorite has been making an exploding volcano. She was so happy at the giant mess that it made!
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  255. My favorite science project was when we grew pumpkins in test tubes (until they got too big) to watch the root system!

  266. I did a pretty cool volcano project like in the 6th grade or so. Thanks for the chance to win!

  280. My favorite science project was making the solar system out of paper mache the year we were studying it.

  289. My favorite science project was the egg drop! We all had to construct devices that would keep an egg intact after being dropped off of our 3 story school building. It was a blast! And yes, my egg survived! 🙂 Thanks for the chance!

  308. The little one’s favorite science project was a papier-mache volcano with baking soda and vinegar!

  323. I did a science project where I grew several different potato plants in varying degrees of light and noted how the light affected the rate of growth and the color.

  325. I made a fire ant farm in 4th grade. I got an A+. Mom wasn’t pleased when she discovered they were fire ants. I was supposed to dig up some black ants for my farm 🙂

  329. Made a diorama and I was so proud of it until I saw everyone else’s. Oh the tradegy of childhood.

  333. I honestly despised science and have conveniently forgotten anything I learned in science class

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  340. We did a lesson in 3rd grade learning about how cactus’s survive, and got to plant our own and keep it. Mine lasted years, which was the longest of everyone’s for sure. Mostly everyone’s died within a month. I was proud 🙂
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  349. My son won first place in this year’s science fair after observing rotting bananas for a month. He put them in jars some in water, some with air holes in the dark or light. He came up with the whole thing himself with minimal help from dad. I was so proud of him.

  360. My fave science project when I was a kid was when I incubated chicken eggs and added food dyes with a syringe…then when the chicks hatched they were colored and it was awesome!

  383. I didn’t even do any science projects when I was little! I went to a very very tiny school and we didn’t do anything! I did like dissecting cats but that was my junior year.

  389. Thanks for the giveaway…my favorite science project (8th grade) was breeding fruit flies & mapping the genetic outcomes; back in the mid ’70’s, when giving a kid a can of ether (to anesthetize & study the flies) to play with was considered a smart move !

  399. When I was in middle school, I did a display about evolution, centering on how the giraffe was believed to have developed its long neck. I drew lines on the haunches of one of my model horses to turn it into an Okapi (a short-necked relative of the giraffe). I actually won 2nd or 3rd place in the school science fair and went on to the big tri-county science fair, where I didn’t win, but at least I made it that far!

  402. My son did a science project where we did a survey about whether kids preferred “Kids” toothpastes.

  404. My favorite one was definitely when we made peanut brittle in our beakers in chemistry class. There was a scientific point to it (it wasn’t just to learn how to make peanut brittle in beakers), I just don’t remember what that principle was. I definitely do remember that we got to eat it and it was pretty tasty.

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