#Fantastic4Science Fun Over Holiday Break

Last week we tackled these fun and entertaining activities courtesy of Fox Home Entertainment and in honor of the Fantastic Four.  We tried Mr. Fantastic’s Stretchy Slime, The Human Torch’s Combustible Candles, The Invisible Woman’s Invisible Ink, and The Thing’s Clobberin’ Candy. 

The Slime Science Kit, a.k.a. Mr. Fantastic’s Stretchy Slime, had recipes and most of the ingredients to tackle six different slime projects.

 We attempted Sewer Slime first with the enclosed guar gum and borax, but that didn’t seem to set up for us.

Here is Flip-Flop Slime (cornstarch and water).

and Power Putty (white glue, liquid starch, and water)

also Wiggly Wonder (white glue, water, and borax).

 

We didn’t have skim milk in the house to tackle the last one titled “Glooze” (skim milk, vinegar, baking soda).

Then we tried to grow rock candy crystals, a.k.a. The Thing’s Clobberin’ Candy.

There was a powder solution enclosed, which was a bag of sucrose.  I boiled water and added the sucrose until it was dissolved.

Then the solution is poured into the enclosed glass jar.  It is recommended to wait a week for the crystals to grow on the “seeded” sticks.  There were five sticks included, but one hole in the lid and the instructions said to only use one stick.  With three kids and needing to wait about seven days for a good amount of crystals to form, we made additional holes in the lid for the remaining sticks and took our chances.

Here it is exactly seven days later.

The sticks had conjoined together with crystals forming on them.  We had to reheat them in the glass jar to be able to remove them.  My bad.

More recently, we tried the Wax Art Candle Kit, a.k.a. The Human Torch’s Combustible Candles.  There were five different colors of wax beads and eight glass jars with lids and wicks.

The wicks were trimmed back after this picture was taken.

Then we lit a few to burn.  My children wanted to have green wax so they combined a layer of blue and yellow wax beads.  As we watched them melt, it became a pool of blue.

It was also fun putting the candles out for the night.

The candles have many hours left to burn.

Our last experiment was The Invisible Woman’s Invisible Ink.  This uses a fluorescent ink that is “ultra-violet” and out of the range of light we can see.  These neat pens contained the UV ink and also had black lights built into the top of them to shine on the creations.

I have something written on this notepad.  Can you see it?

Here it is – <3 U.  The black light excites phosphors of the UV light.  The phosphors convert the energy from the UV light into the glowing light, which is visible to the human eye.

Thanks so much to @FHEInsiders and @FoxHomeEnt for giving us these special products inspired by the super powers of the Fantastic Four and experimenting with #Fantastic4Science!