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Rain Cloud in a Jar

Materials:

  • Clear glasses
  • Food coloring
  • Shaving cream
  • Small bowl or container for holding 1-2 ounces
  • Water
  • Eye dropper or pipette

Instructions:

  1. Start by filling the small containers with water. The less water you use (so the more concentrated the food coloring), the faster your “rain” will drop. But on the other hand, the more water you use, the more rain you’ll be able to make.
  2. Add different colors of food coloring to each of the small containers. My containers held about 1 ounce of water and I added about 10 drops of food coloring.
  3. Fill a clear glass with water about 2/3 full.
  4. Top it with a generous amount of shaving cream.
  5. Use the eye dropper (or measuring spoon) to drop the different colors of water onto the shaving cream cloud. The closer you squirt to the edges, the faster it will go through the shaving cream and come down as rain.

Note:  You can tell your kids that the water is like the air, and the shaving cream is like the clouds. And as the clouds get saturated with water, they produce rain.