I hope that everybody had a great holiday weekend staying safe at home. Erin and I were enjoying the weather last week and thought it would be great to do some painting outside, which we decided to turn into a science experiment. Instead of paper we filled balloons with water and put them in the freezer overnight. After observing what happened to the water once it had been in the freezer, we peeled off the balloon and it gave us ice which is a great surface to paint on. Erin particularly liked it when the ice balloons started to melt and the colours all mixed together, giving us another science experiment to observe. To join in with the science fun we were having we tried to dig out the toys we had frozen inside a couple of the balloons by using salt water to help us melt the ice. Ice melts faster in salt water because salt water has a lower freezing point than fresh water, so the ice cube will have to absorb less heat in order to melt in salt water than in fresh water. Let’s see your science experiments; why don’t you try painting on a different surface from paper? Do the colours mix like they did on the ice? Also how quickly can you melt ice with the salt and rescue your toy inside?