Through Ophelia in Hamlet, Shakespeare explores the meaning of many flowers. While floriography was all the rage in Victorian times, it goes back to earlier eras and can be found in the literature and daily life of many cultures. Floriography, or the language of flowers, required floral dictionaries but allowed couples to say what society deemed inappropriate to express in words. We send private messages to our friends and lovers today via text, but the Victorians sent nosegays to convey secret thoughts and desires. While we enjoy our flowers for their beauty and lovely scents, few of us still use them as a form of clandestine communication. Some of us have taken to our home gardens, too, hoping for peonies, daylilies, sunflowers, and roses. Toddler science experiments are always so memorable.The Language of Flowers by Stephanie WhetstoneĪs the weather in Princeton finally warms, the campus has come alive with flowers, leafy trees, and lush green plants of many kinds. Not only did this activity get us through a good chunk of our day morning, but it was a riot for my kids and oh so memorable.

Science – chemical reaction and the scientific method.

Kids learn so much with a simple toddler science experiment: We restarted this toddler science experiment 3 times!Ĭan you think of all the things a toddler learns with this experiment? With the excess vinegar gone, it reveals the unused baking soda and the fun can begin again. See why I used one of those? Sure it keep things clean but it also helps us restart the activity. They wanted was to do this activity again and the best part is – I could make their wish come true without adding any new baking soda.Īll I had to do was tip the muffin tin over and let the excess vinegar run into the storage container. Forget the kids, it’s magical for adults to watch this chemical reaction! Who wouldn’t be?! This activity is magical for toddlers. It was an exciting 8 minutes in their life – and it kept on going from there.īut the fun didn’t stop there! Get ready for this cool trick to keep the activity goingĪfter the first “pass” through the muffin tin, my kids was itching to do more.

It took my kids about 8 minutes to work her way through the muffin tin of colors. You’ll never guess how long they played with this experiment for! Not only were they blown away by the fizzing chemical reaction of the two items but they was SHOCKED at the colors!! They’d yell them out each time and giggle with excitement and pride (I couldn’t stop laughing at my daughter calling this activity “stinky bubbles”). The first thing we did was look at the set up and talk about it: What was this white stuff and what was in that squeeze container?

Genius, right! They had NO IDEA there was a hidden color under each pile of baking soda, and different colors at that. To do that, I put a drop of food dye in each cup of my muffin tin and then a teaspoon of baking soda over it to hide the coloring. Remember, my goal was to make this an activity not a fizz and done sight. Read more about these links in my disclosure policy. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. I added a hidden ingredient that upped the wow factor for my kids.īusy Toddler is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program. What did I do to make this activity special? I wanted this experiment to be something extra fun. I’m not anti-volcano – but my toddler just doesn’t have any frame of reference for that so I needed another vehicle for my ingredients.Īlso, I wanted this to be an activity, not a 2 second “ooooh it fizzes” and my kids just walk away type thing.

To make things just that much more interesting, I didn’t want to go the volcano route with it. I know it’s not some genius idea to do this experiment but I wanted to introduce the old “baking soda + vinegar” trick to my toddler something fierce. RELATED: Looking for more quick learning activities to try each day? Check out Playing Preschool – my easy home preschool program.Ĭheck out the magical mystery I add to this activity!

It is the absolute gold standard best.īut this science experiment is so much more than just a one and done baking soda and vinegar moment. Who doesn’t love a good toddler science experiment? Science is basically magic in early childhood and nothing is better than the good old baking soda and vinegar experiment. You’ve got to see this fun twist on an easy toddler science experiment!

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