Have your kids ever wondered why frost begins to appear in the morning as winter approaches?
This easyfrost experimentallows children to visually seehow to make frost.
Plus, all you need for thisfrost in a can science experimentare a few simple materials!
So try thiswinter science activities for preschoolersthis January!
How to Make Frost
Do your kids love Frozen or maybe they loved Frozone in the Incredibles?
The ability to create frost and ice at a single touch sounds like an amazing super power.
Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler add this to yourwinter science experimentsto try!
To do this we set up a control, plus our experiment.
Our control consisted of a tin can filled with ice but no salt.
We filled the other tin can with ice and salt sprinkled over all the ice.
Then we sat back and watched.
Very quickly the tin can with the salt and ice mixture started getting colder.
The tin can with no salt was just cool.
There was a significant difference in the temperatures, just no frost.
Frost in a can
Here is a close up.
Ourhow is frost formedexperiment was a failure.
But scientists dont fail, they examine, evaluate, investigate, then experiment again.
We had the tin cans that would conduct the cold.
Having it stick to my fingers was proof of that.
But something was missing.
Its winter here, and winter in our neck of the woods is cold and very, very dry.
We explored a few different ideas for how to adjust this variable in our experiment.
We placed steamy cups of water near the tin cans.
We tried adding water to our tin cans.
We tried blowing on them.
Changing all of those variables failed to produce frost.
Winter science Activities for Preschoolers
We finally created frost!
We had beautiful little crystals and wonderful frost build up on the can.
Weve got lots of fun ideas for you to try!
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