Milk, Milk, and MORE Milk!

We did this project two weeks ago, but my kiddos are STILL talking about it so I wanted to post it here.

We had been doing the letter Mm this week, so naturally we went to the Library and got all the Mm books that we could find. For some reason Aiden has LOVED this book called The Milkman, we've read it over and over, so doing some milk projects sounded like a good idea.

We started off with this milk experiment:

Materials Needed:

Milk

Shallow Baking Dish

Food Coloring

Liquid Dish Soap

Instructions: Cover the bottom of the dish with milk. Add a few drops of food coloring to the milk (do not stir) and then add a few drops of liquid dish soap. Watch what happens to the colors!!!!

My kids LOVED this project!! We had to do it with every color of food coloring that we had!

milk

milk and food coloring (do not mix)
add a drop of dish soap (no mixing needed)

Next I took out every type of milk I had (evaporated milk, condensed milk, powdered milk, box milk, and whole milk). We talked about all the differences and tasted each. We also talked about and tasted different things that are made from milk (sour cream, yogurt, cheese, ice cream).

Then since I didn't just want to waste all those open cans... we finger painted with the condensed milk! Just add a little CM to small cups and a drop or two a food coloring to each cup. Then let the kiddos finger paint on paper. The funny thing is that they didn't want to mix the colors so they just licked their fingers in between dips, YUM. It was alot of fun for them and the gooey sticky texture was very different from normal finger paints. Of course they had to be washed up very well afterwards.

No doubt that we also just HAD to make milkshakes since we were talking about milk!! Actually ours were more like smoothies since I don't have any ice cream. They each added to the mixer; frozen fruit, a little honey, and milk. It made a very nice treat!! It was just a MilkTastic Day!!