It was so quick to do and like most of our experiments we had everything we needed in the kitchen already. Once again, I found this experiment at my favourite site - learning4kids.net
All you need for Dancing Sultanas is a fizzy drink (lemonade is good because you can see through it easily) and some Sultanas.
All you have to do is drop a couple of sultanas - one at a time - into the glass of lemonade. After a few seconds the bubbles push the sultanas up and it looks like they are dancing!
The boys laughed every time this happened - and is by far their new favourite party trick - they show this to all of their friends when they come over and are just as excited as the first time they did it. We added a few dried apricots in there as well (we had sultana and apricot packs) but they were too heavy to dance.
Even this experiment provided many wonderful learning opportunities - they questioned why the sultanas were dancing, they were taking turns putting the sultanas in the glass, and E even questioned how the bubbles were in the water. These experiments are so simple, yet the children are having so much fun! I love it!
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