February Nature Seekers 4 H Meeting

The theme of this month's meeting was Winter STEM activities.  I had four activities planned but we only had time to do three of them.


Our first activity was snowstorm in a jar.  This was really easy to do.  We filled a jay 3/4 with baby oil.  In a separate bowl we added a teaspoon of white paint to a cup of water and stirred and then added the paint water to the jar.  Next we were supposed to add a pinch of glitter, but if you know me, you know I do NOT do loose glitter, so we left that out.  We added three drops of blue food coloring, and then a broken alka seltzer tablet. 

Our next activity was to make homemade snow.  The recipe was 3 cups of baking soda and 1/2 cup white hair conditioner.  This was really easy and it worked!  It felt kind of cold, looked like snow, and the children could make some some snowballs and snowman out of it.

Last we made snow structures out of marshmallows and toothpicks.  I thought they would build igloos, but they had some other ideas.  I was impressed with what they came up with!