The Science Fair

Let's be honest and say my parents are gamers. They came over a couple weeks ago and helped Nate with his science fair project, appropriately titled, "Do You Taste With Your Eyes". Nate is pretty much the boy version of Amelia Bedelia and wanted to let everyone know that NO you do not. However, the point of his science experiment was to find out if just because food looks different, does it taste different.

And so, we had a declicious meal of blue turkey burgers. This is the final "plated" meal. I thought the presentation was class A. Yes, we did make green and red french fries.

The second part of the experiment involved putting coffee, sugar water, salt water and vinegar on various parts of your tongue to see where the taste was the strongest. This was a blast. Opa refused to participate, but seeing as Oma puts vinegar of her nasty vegetables (like spinach and brussels sprouts ick) she didn't mind this part at all.


Mmmm...red food dye. How bad is this stuff for you?

Here's Nate, mixing it up.

Jack also did an experiment on electromagnets. First he made some battery powered thing that was supposed to spin. It didn't work. Then he made telegraphs. It didn't work. Then he made a magnet using a battery, a nail, and some wire. That DID work and it was a great segue to talking about how sometimes, even when we work super duper hard on something it doesn't always work out. And that was okay. We made that part of our display and results board.

Oma keeps saying that coming over for the taste test was fun. Based on that first photo, I'd say that my parent's definition of fun has been warped since they became empty nesters. Next thing I know they'll be sitting there making spoon jewelry and macrame plant holders.......