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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:
Jamie wants to march in the St.Patrick’s Day parade with his big brothers. They think he is too young. Jamie gets up early St.Patrick’s Day morning and sets up to prove them wrong. He takes his brother’s flute and heads up to the parade ground with the family dog to show them he is big enough.
Jamie more than anything proves to himself that he can do it. Along the way he greets and meets the other early morning risers in his town. Some even give him an orange soda, a pastry, an egg, and a small Irish flag. By the time he reaches home he has accomplished his task and left a reminder for others to see that he made it there and he made it first. There at the top of the hill is a soda bottle with a small Irish flag.
What did we do?
Experiment
We added food coloring to the water in the colors of the Irish flag along with white carnations. The carnations were slow to change in the large glass vases. The carnations JDaniel requested we try in blue (his favorite) color changed overnight.
I love these vases. I won them as a door prize last month. They were perfect for the experiment
If you look carefully, you can see a little green. We will let them soak up food coloring and see what happens.
Thank goodness JDaniel wanted blue flowers!
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Great projects! I’ve been meaning to do the flower project for some time =)
Those vases are so cute. And those are some very blue carnations!
Looks like you had a great day!!
I totally forgot carnations do that, such fun projects!
I remember doing the carnation project when I was small- and always loved it! I bet it was just as memorable for JDaniel!
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Love the carnation project…..very cool!
What a great project. Thanks for being part of the read-along.
how fun! we LOVE science and all things experiment-y. and your flowers turned out SO BLUE! wow! just linked up this week. thanks!
-shawnacy
Emily did the carnation experiment her first year for her science project. I love those bright carnations you can find at the store…I just love all the colors.
I made a rainbow cake with a pot of gold. It looked really pretty but wasn’t as moist as I would of liked. I will post it on Wednesday with the Leprechaun traps.
Great book and activities! I always loved making and eating crescent rolls – great childhood memories! The blue carnations are gorgeous. I’ve read that you have to use a lot of food coloring for the experiment to work well – it hasn’t worked right for lots of people otherwise. Deb @ LivingMontessoriNow.com
I love the flower project! I always try to do that with a little food coloring at home with the last of the good flowers in a bouquet. So fun! : )
All we did was put green food coloring into most of our food for supper. 😉
Thanks for the idea about that book; I’ll have to keep my eyes open for that one!
Thank you for letting us link up!! I am loving your blog and ALL your great ideas!
Annie
http://moffattgirls.blogspot.com
Those little crescent rolls sound to.die.for. Nothing better than cinnamon and butter on fresh crescent rolls. Yum!
I do love the vases! I haven’t dyed flowers yet with my youngest two – or at least while they have been old enough to remember. Will have to do that. We read that book this week, too!
The carnations turned out so well! I’ve done this before and they didn’t turn as deep of a color! Thanks for the nice comments about our bird and a nest project! The book is really great! Each page uses real yarn to build a nest little by little until the nest is complete!
Love your Read.Explore.Learn concept. Tying in activities with books is a great way to help kids learn and understand.
At 2.5 years old my son loves science experiments. He’s certainly his Daddy’s son.