Check with a grown-up before you begin.Put 1/4 cup baking soda in a clear container.Then add 1 cup of vinegar.The mixture of vinegar and baking soda will bubble. It's making carbon dioxide.Blow some bubbles into the container and watch how they float on the carbon dioxide. The bubbles are floating where the carbon dioxide and air meet.The carbon dioxide stays at the bottom of the bowl because it is more dense than the air in the bowl. The bubbles float on top of the carbon dioxide because they are filled with air and the air is less dense than the carbon dioxide.This will help explain what density means. Pretend that you had two balloons and you filled one with air, and the other one with the same amount of carbon dioxide. The balloons would be the same size, because the gas in them takes up the same amount of space.But, if you weighed both balloons, the one with the carbon dioxide would be heavier. This means that it's denser than the balloon with air in it.If you still don't understand density, don't worry. There are lots of people out there who can answer your questions. Talk to your teacher, go to a science museum, visit your local library, or ask your parents.
Spray some shaving cream into a disposable baking tray.Smooth out the shaving cream with a piece of cardboard.Now pick the colors that you want your paper to be. The Fun Friends used blue, yellow, and red food coloring.Drip the food coloring onto the shaving cream and then swirl the colors around with a fork.Place a piece of paper on top of the shaving cream and then gently press it into the shaving cream.Then pull the paper off of the shaving cream and place it shaving cream side up on a flat surface.Use the cardboard to scrape the shaving cream off the paper.Let the paper dry. There you have it!
First, make the decoupage jar.Squirt some glue into a cup. Add a small amount of water and stir with the paintbrush.Rip different colors of tissue paper into small pieces.Brush the glue/water mixture onto the jar.Press your tissue paper pieces onto the jar. You can overlap them to make different colors. Do this all around the jar.Brush another coat of the glue/water mixture on top of the tissue paper.Let jar dry for at least an hour.Now that you've made the Decoupage jar, it's time to make the homemade cocoa mix that goes inside.To make it, just mix the cocoa, sugar and powdered milk together and you've got cocoa mix!Now put your cocoa mix in the jar.Make a tag that says, "To make a cup of cocoa, place 3 tablespoons of cocoa mix in a mug and add 8 ounces of hot water. You can add marshmallows if you want!"Use some ribbon to tie the tag to the jar. Now, your gift is ready to give away.There are lots of other things besides cocoa that you can put in this jar, like lots of different colored string for a friendship bracelet kit, or anything else you'd like.
cardboard, the thin kind, like from the back of a notebook or a cereal boxphotos of family, friends or pets. Make sure you have permission to cut these up!
old magazines
glue
thin magnets that you can find at arts and crafts or office supply stores
scissors
WHAT TO DO:
To start, cut out heads from the photos. If there is part of the neck showing, cut that out too.Then go through the magazines and find some bodies for your heads. Cut out the body leaving some room on the sides.Glue the head and body to the cardboard. Let them dry.When your head and body are dry, cut them out of the cardboard, trimming off any excess.Glue a magnet to the back of the cardboard.When it's dry, there's your magnet! You can put it on the fridge or give it as a zany gift.