Elasticity and Blankie Crisis

A few weeks ago, Madelyn came into the kitchen to explain "electricity" to me because she had learned from Sid the Science Kid why some balls bounce and other objects don't bounce. I asked her if she meant "elasticity" instead of "electricity", which she confirmed was the word she had a hard time saying. Lucky for these girls, they have a dad as a scientist and a mom who taught science, so we decided this morning to do an experiment on elasticity.

We gathered all of the balls in our house after determining that things like eggs, even though they looked like balls, didn't have elasticity and just made big messes.

The girls stood on chairs, raised their hands to about the same height and dropped their balls on 3 (sometimes).

Maddy made a hypothesis about which ball would bounce the highest (have more elasticity).

 

After dropping all the balls once, they picked one ball that had more elasticity and a second ball that wouldn't bounce as high (less elasticity).



Getting ready for the experiment to test their hypothesis

 On a different note.  Callie spilled on her blankie earlier this week requiring a wash.  She survived the washing process, but the move from the washer to the dryer was too close to nap time.  The poor kid sat in front of the dryer watching it go "round, round" and crying inconsolably until it was dry.  I tried to distract her with other things and bring her out of the laundry room, but she refused to be distracted.