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Super Science Activity: Rabbit Wranglers
Super Science Saturdays are sponsored by PA Cyber and Tender Care Learning Centers, a proud partner of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.
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Super Science Activity: Whipped Cream Eggs
What You’ll Need
- Hard boiled eggs
- White vinegar
- 3 cups whipped cream/whipped topping
- Assorted food coloring
Directions
- Fill a bowl with white distilled vinegar, and place your hard boiled eggs in the bowl for about two minutes, making sure to cover the eggs completely.
- Remove the eggs, and dry them thoroughly.
- In a baking dish, spread your whipped cream evenly, about a half inch deep.
- Drop single food coloring drops about one inch apart, using whatever colors you choose. Then swirl the dots around with a toothpick or something similar trying not to make the colors run together too much. You’re looking to create a marbled effect.
- Roll the hard boiled eggs you let soak in vinegar in the whipped cream and let them sit for 10 to 15 minutes.
- After 10 to 15 minutes, rinse the eggs thoroughly and let the eggs dry completely on paper towels.
Super Science Activity: Dino Hatch Eggs
What You’ll Need
- One Quarter (1/4) cup baking soda
- 10-15 drops food coloring (optional)
- Two (2) Tablespoons cornstarch
- Two (2) Tablespoons dry citric acid (optional)
- One to Two (1-2) teaspoons water
- Small dinosaur toy
- Gloves (optional)
- Whisk
- Large Bowl
- Plastic Easter egg (for mold)
- One Quarter (1/4) cup vinegar (to help dissolve egg)
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Super Science Activity: Make a Bird’s Nest
What You’ll Need
- Paper plate
- Crayons
- Markers
- Brown paper bag
- Scissors
- White glue
- Craft paper
- Wrapping paper
- Easter grass (or paper strips)
- Cotton balls
- Cotton swabs
Directions
- Use crayons or markers to color the sky on your paper plate (or whatever you’ve chosen as the base of your nest).
- Cut the paper bag in half, crinkle it, and glue it to the edge of the plate.
- Let the glue dry and cut off the extra paper.
- Use cotton balls and white glue to add clouds. You can also add a sun and rainbow or another decoration.
- Fill your nest. The example in the photos use Easter grass. You can use craft paper, markers, and colored cotton swabs with the ends cut off to add color and texture.
- Use white glue to attach everything
- Add whatever you’d like to your nest! Make some bird eggs, add some flowers, get creative!
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Super Science Activity: Spring-o Bingo
Happy spring! Take a look outside your window or go for a walk with a grown-up. Check off anything you see and try to get bingo!
You can document evidence of nature like this as well as seeds, animals tracks, and more in iNaturalist for City Nature Challenge as well!
Super Science Activity: String Eggs
What You’ll Need
- Balloons*
- String or yarn
- White glue**
- Water
- Wax paper/plastic wrap to dry eggs on
*If you don’t have balloons, follow these same instructions and use an overturned bowl to make a string basket instead.
**Cornstarch and flour can be used if white glue isn’t available
Directions
- Thin out the glue so that it’s not too thick, but still sticky enough to soak string.
- Boil 1 ½ cups water (This is a job for grown-ups.).
- Mix in 1 tablespoon of flour and 3 tablespoons of cornstarch
- Let cool before using
- Put the string in the glue mixture and make sure it’s even coated (make sure to keep your workstation and yourself tidy!).
- While the string soaks, blow up balloons into an egg shape.
- Choose a bowl to use and flip it upside down
- You may want to cover the bowl with plastic wrap for easier clean up
- Wrap your string around your balloons, leaving the tied end of the balloon uncovered
- Use a few strands to make an edge where the top of your basket will be before wrapping the rest with string (there is no right or wrong way to do this, just have fun!).
- Set them on your wax paper and let them dry overnight.
- Using a needle, pop the balloon (This is a job for grown-ups.).
- Pull the popped balloon gently out of your egg.
- Display and enjoy your new string eggs!
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