Cascarones and Spring Experiments

I'm just going to post a whole bunch of our classroom activities in no particular order.  It been a crazy end of year, and now there are only 2 weeks left!  Whaaaaaa????!  I know!!!  I can't believe it either!

Cascarones

 This year we chose to color our eggs using permanent markers.  Naturally, some eggs will get smushed and some will fall and break, so have extras available!  

After the children draw on them, they fill their eggs with confetti and tape the bottom.  I fold and cut colored tissue paper and give it a fringe on one side.  Most cascarones then fold the tissue over so that the fringe is more ballooned, but for our sake it's easier to leave it folded.

We gave the children pre-made cones to glue the tissue paper around.  They really loved playing with the cones and thinking what they could be used for! 

Then we applied glue fringe side up and attached the tissue paper by rolling the cone over the tissue. 

When they were finished we glued the eggs inside the cones.

"Eggs-periment" 

How many books can you place on four eggs before they crack?

The eggs were cut and taped on the bottom before hand.  And we counted as we placed book on top of book.  This was really exciting and fun!

  

The answer?

43

Dying Flowers

Pretty self explanatory.

Add food coloring to water and watch flowers turn colors.

Not sure how the multicolored flowers got so many different colors on one flower?  They were bought this way.  The kids thought they were so cool!