Candle making

Earlier this week I got to spend some good time with the little girls making candles! Their teacher did not come to school (a not so uncommon thing unfortunately) so they were sent home. Instead of going straight to playing we decided to do something somewhat educational first! Using one of those chemistry kits, we learned about solids, liquids and gases by taking solid wax, and crayons, melting it to make a liquid, dipping a string and making it solid again, then burning it to form a gas! Yay! Anyways, we had fun with it, and it was nice to spend some time with just them and no distractions from the babies, or big kids :)

The equipment:

The girls: