Lily's Science Fair

This year, for Lily's science fair at school, she decided to do a project based on water. We were watching a Pioneer Woman episode one day and her kids did a little experiment called "Walking Water" where they placed the end of a length of toilet paper in a cup filled with colored water and then placed the other end in an empty cup to watch how the water traveled to demonstrate capillary effect. Well, Lily thought this was really cool, so she decided she wanted to do this experiment, plus a couple of other fun ones, to enter into her science fair at school. These experiments tied in with the scripture verse we chose also - John 4:14 "But whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life." One of the requirements of the science fair is that we incorporate a bible verse or teaching into it as well.  he also chose to do a rain cloud experiment! with shaving cream and water. She put shaving cream on top of a jar of water and dripped blue food coloring onto the shaving cream until it was saturated and started to drip into the water, showing how rain clouds work. The last one she did was an experiment showing how different things float in different environments (oil and water).

Lily's science project won this year!! She was so excited that her project won, but I think she was even more excited to talk about her experiments. I love that she loves to learn!