Week 20

So this week we worked with play dough. We made play dough, we played with it and then we learned a valuable Godly lesson from play dough! This has been a great week.

This is some play dough that we got from Chuck E Cheese. This was our standard play dough that we used to compare play doughs that we made. 

This picture shows our first experiment. These ingredients were the ones that we used to cook the play dough. Flour, salt, water, food coloring.

This week we learned about math through measuring our ingredients. Pouring flour.

Pouring oil.

This was our cooked play dough after we heated it up on the stove. It turned into a ball.

Tater playing with the play dough!

We read some words with our play dough!

Tater and Jr Bug playing with our play dough. Long after school was officially finished! Fun times were had!

So the next day we made another batch of playdough. 

This batch of play dough was made using cornstarch, hair conditioner, and food coloring.

Tater measuring the corn starch. More measuring, counting, and science added in.

This is what the play dough looked like before it was mixed together!

Tater and Jr Bug both mixing the play dough up! Stir baby stir!

Tater and Jr Bug playing with the play dough they made.

Since we made play dough with conditioner we used our senses to smell the fragrance of the playdough! Very flowery. Then we compared the smell to the first play dough we made to see the differences. 

Then after we made both play doughs we had a discussion on the differences between the two. How we made each one. How they were the same and how they were different. We talked about how they looked, felt, smelt. 

After we discussed those things, we talked about how God uses our differences. God used this science experience in a supernatural way. In our first experiment we cooked the play dough. In our second we did a non cook method. The difference came in the way the play dough was made. The end result was play dough. But to get the play dough we used different ways. Just like God uses different experiences to get us to Him. The method may be different but the result is the same...we draw closer to God. This lesson is reinforced when we compare our lives to each other. We have different experiences but  God  should always get the Glory. Your story isn't my story, but both stories should honor God. Just like there were differences in making our play dough the end result is that there was play dough.

We are now on our two week break. I will be receiving my service dog and we are taking a much needed respite. When we get back, we will jump right back in. Stay tuned for our next adventures at The Vine Academy!