The Snowman Experiment

The Lil Divas have been begging to build a snowman.

This is pretty impossible in Florida.

Or is it?

By freezing 3 water filled balloons (1 small, 1 medium, 1 large)

we were able to make our very own Snowman (or should I say Ice man?)

The Snowman Experiment

This was the perfect opportunity for a bit of scientific observation

& after our fabulous Mad Science Theme - 

the Lil Divas are very excited about all things science!

Here's What We Did:

1. Freeze 3 water filled balloons (preferable over night)

You will need 1 large, 1 medium and 1 small balloon for your snowman.

2. Peel the balloon off your frozen ice balls

3. Using a bit of salt to adhere them, stack your ice to form a snowman.

4. We used some felt to make the face and buttons -

Tip: Wet the felt and add just a pinch of salt to stick them on!

Since the Lil Divas have been so interested in science lately

I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to introduce them

to some scientific terms & processes - on their level.

We discussed what we were going to observe during this experiment:

The Experiment - 

1 Snowman would be put outside & 1 left indoors.

We were going to observe which would melt the fastest.

Each Lil Diva made a prediction about which would melt the fastest

and recorded their observations both before and after.

5. We placed one snowman outside & left one inside in our kitchen.

Both snowmen were placed in bins to collect any water.

Here's What Happened:

 After 3 hours our snowmen had visibly begun to melt.

The Outside Snowman had quite a bit of water evident in the bin

and was smaller in size from when we first put it outside.

The Indoor Snowman, although his head had toppled, 

had much less water in the bin and was still considerably large in size.

Approximately 8 hours later we found that 

the Outside Snowman was nearly completely melted.

The Inside Snowman was still pretty large and mostly intact.

A side by side comparison of the 2 Snowmen:

We ended the experiment a bit prematurely 

as is was soon to be the Lil Divas bedtime but I think 

the results were pretty conclusive about what the final results would be.

The Oldest Diva wrote down our results & her final observations 

at the conclusion of our experiment.

It was a fun experiment 

& we got to build our very own snowmen,

 even in Florida!

Books We Read:

The Snowman Experiment was inspired by this pin on Pinterest.
I changed it up a little to suit our needs but that was my inspiration!

Check out my Winter Board on Pinterest - so many wonderful ideas.

Interested in more fun & easy science ideas -
check out our other science experiments.


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