Today we had a very special visit from Katie at Science Buddies, who came to deliver a very important (and fun!) workshop on the importance of washing our hands. For our first experiment we added some “germs” to a Petri dish filled with water. Then we added soap to our fingers and when we touched the water we were amazed to see the germs ran away! This showed us just how important it was to use soap when washing our hands to chase away those nasty germs! Then we rubbed a special cream which contained “germs” (glitter) into our hands and used a UV light to see how many germs were there, before washing our hands and using the UV light again. After washing our hands with soap we could see that all those germs had disappeared! Now we know just how important it is to always use soap!🧼
For our second experiment we made bath bombs! We created a special mixture, which we made sure would be safe to use on our skin and then added some colouring and a scent of our choice. We could choose between bubblegum, candy floss or pear drop – they all smelt delicious so it was very hard to chose! The children were all very excited to take their bath bombs home and try them!
