Leprechaun Pudding

Today we connected Saint Patrick's Day, our Solids/Liquids theme unit, and our procedural writing unit together into one very fun experiment! We made Leprechaun Pudding! Students started with a small bag of Jello brand pistachio pudding mix (which looks white when dry), added a little milk, and watched it turn green with little gold nuggets from a leprechaun (the pistachios)! The children observed, discussed, and recorded the way mixing a solid with a liquid created a liquid with different properties from either of the two original ingredients. They also learned the new science word, "viscous," as they squeezed their bag of pudding and watched it become thick and sticky! Ask your child about it and they should be able to explain the changes they observed during the experiment as well as what "viscous" means! After recording their science observations the students ate their pudding then wrote a "how-to" (procedure) explaining the ingredients and steps used to create it. What a great morning! I truly enjoy the slideshow of our work below!

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