Have you seen the adds for I’m The Chef Too? Kiddos love edible science. I tracked down a few ideas: Eat Your Science, which has butter in a jar, popcorn in a bag, ice cream in a bag, etc.—all traditional kitchen science experiments. Create a file of recipes or instructions for summer. Whenever your kiddos need a fun break, try an edible experiment. I like to write the name of the activity on to craft sticks; the kiddos pick an activity by pulling a craft stick at random. Hide the bin of supplies, such as pop rocks, in the back of the pantry. Declare the bin forbidden. Build excitement for these fun, edible experiments.
1. Geode Cupcake Toppers, Candy Agate, or Rock Candy are all guaranteed hits. Make Crystal Egg Geodes or alum geodes which are NOT edible and bake cupcakes for the edible geode toppers. I buy a bag of geodes to smash, too. This is would a great birthday party for a budding geologist.
2. A Pop Rocks Volcano is edible. The volcano can be made from a cupcake or rice cereal treats. How about Exploding Cupcakes?
3. Layered Lemonade and Color Changing Lemonade (Galaxy Lemonade) go well with Galaxy Iced Cookies. Try Slurpee Science.
4. Weelicious Bubble Tea for kiddos unlikely to choke on the tapioca pearls (DIY)
5. Making a Mug Cake in the microwave has the science explained here.
6. Look at this Oreo Catapult! Here are STEM Cookie Projects, with Oreos. You’re going to need a big bag! Sweet Science: STEM Experiments You Can Do with Chocolate Chip Cookies is similar. You may like Cookie STEM Challenges.
7. Dig your own fossil cake or make a Fossil Feast. Add on salt dough fossils (less edible), Fossil Casts, or Fossil cookies (very edible).
8. For a tremendous treat try HST ‘s Baked Alaska Edible Science.
9. Make pretzels or bake pretzels. There is a great deal of Science Behind the Pretzel.
10. Be inspired with Kid-Friendly Kitchen Experiments with Spherification. You do need sodium alginate and calcium lactate. Use either a pipette or syringe to make the little balls. Try different recipes: Tiny Juice Balloons, Edible Spheres with gelatin, or Basic Spherification.
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