Wednesday, January 23, 2013

How to make snow at home

My hubby was watching the evening news and saw a neat segment from the weather man. It was talking about the extreme cold temperatures we have been having, and that it is great for "making" your own snow outside.

You take a cup of boiling water and throw it in the air; the extreme temperature difference causes it to to turn to "snow" and then you end up with a whole lot of steam.  As soon as he saw this, he wanted to show the boys so we started our activity.

hubby "making" snow - our first attempt

The next time, we tried adding food colouring to the water, but it didn't show up. It did, however, stain the ground/snow with the green!

our 2nd attempt, with the food colouring - although you can't tell

It was really neat to see, and the kids had a lot of fun. Just make sure that it is an adult doing it because of the boiling water!
ETA: Also - please make sure you are not doing it on a windy day, and make sure to throw it AWAY from you. I have just been reading lots of people have been burning themselves by throwing it on windy days


12 comments:

  1. That's fun! We were gong to try it since I posted this -- http://www.mapsgirl.ca/2013/01/boiling-water-to-snow.html

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  2. funny that we both posted about the same thing!

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  3. hahaha my kids do this all the time, it's a lot of fun for them!

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  4. Soooo cool! It's not cold enough here for that but when/if it is we'll be doing this!

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  5. This is def on my list of things I want to do! Thanks for reminding me!

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  6. Ok certainly cold enough here to do this but I've had enough snow in the past two months to hold me over for a while without wanting to make my own ;)

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  7. I have seen this all over the Internet lately; perfect activity for frigid Saskatchewan weather! Love it! :)

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  8. very neat thank you for sharing I haven't seen this before

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  9. I've done this in the past. Its ton's of fun, now how the heck do you create some warm sunshine from a cup? BRRRRRRRR enough of this cold weather already.

    Great fun though.

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  10. What a neat idea! I know my husband is going to want to try this one too.

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