Hope you are all staying cosy and warm, however if the children need some challenge –

1.

• Take a cupful of snow and time how long it takes to melt in the house.
• Take a second cup of snow and wrap it in a scarf, time how long it takes to melt.
• Take a third cup and wrap it in plastic- how long does it take to melt.
• Take a fourth cup and try and idea of your own to keep the cup cold, and time how long the snow takes to melt.  Remember if it is a fair test everything must be the same except one thing.  So same size cups, same place in the house. the only change is what it is wrapped in.

Let me know if you have any other science ideas.

2.

• Put food colouring in balloons and add water thenleave them out in the snow to freeze, when you cut the balloon off they look like giant colourful marbles apparently! Not very sciency but hopefullyfun!
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3.

• ? Do you have any other ideas?