Science Day

I bought an Easter lily a couple of days ago, telling Kevin that some of the blossoms will open before Easter and he can watch it happen. He noted yesterday that one was ballooning and might open soon. He checked it first thing today and discovered this --

Less than an hour later, we could see it had opened a teensy bit more.
Kevin enjoyed a chocolate chip pancake for breakfast.

Today we went to a Science Centre with Melanie, her son Teo, and our Rotary Club's exchange student from Brazil, Bruna. The trip there was an experience in itself, since we were held up for an hour on the highway by a truck accident. Fortunately, we went in Melanie's car which has videos for the kids!!!


Bruna and Kevin manipulating a space vehicle.

Kevin pushed Teo around to the delight of both!

After watching an IMAX movie on the Hubble telescope repair, we found a papermaking demonstration. The guide showed how to blend (in a kitchen blender) water and scrap paper, the process for transferring it to a screen then drying the sieved mixture resulting in a sheet of paper.

Each child had the opportunity to create a piece of paper themselves. Kevin is inserting the screen into the paper mixture,

then lifting the screen creating his sheet to be transferred to drying layers.

The guide handing Kevin's homemade paper to him.

The guide allowed one of the children to add glitter to the paper mixture. It doesn't show in the photo, but is very nice.

We sought out the electricity demonstration after seeing this picture on Greg's Facebook yesterday when he was a boy in St. Louis.

The guide asked for a volunteer from the audience, and he chose Kevin!!!!



Outside was a sound tube.




When we returned from our day's activities, he spied --