{"id":4826,"date":"2021-02-11T08:25:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T08:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrineeccmain2019\/?p=4826"},"modified":"2021-02-11T12:49:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T12:49:31","slug":"thursday-11th-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrineeccmain2019\/2021\/02\/11\/thursday-11th-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 11th February"},"content":{"rendered":"

For today’s activity I thought I would show you two experiments that you could try at home.<\/p>\n

The first experiment is a great way to show children the importance of washing their hands. Recently we have been encouraging children to wash their hands more often because of Coronavirus. This experiment will show them what happens to bad germs when they wash their hands.<\/p>\n

Here is a short video about germs:<\/p>\n

Stop Germs from Spreading: Wash Your Hands | Cincinnati Children’s – YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

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This experiment demonstrates the cleaning power of soap and will help you to explain why it\u2019s so important to use soap when washing our hands.\u00a0 The children get to chase away the \u201cbad germs\u201d in their own little bowl.<\/p>\n

Before you start, put some pepper onto a plate and ask your child to dip their finger into the pepper and see what happens. The pepper should stick to the child’s finger – explain that in this experiment we will pretend that the pepper represents germs.\u00a0 (You can wipe the pepper off their finger after showing them that it has stuck to their finger just the same as germs do)<\/p>\n

What you need:<\/strong><\/p>\n