Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Blood

We made BLOOD! OK, not really blood...but we used some stuff from the kitchen to represent the different components of our blood.

*Yellow liquid=plasma

*Cheerios & red food color drops=red blood cells

*White marshmallows=white blood cells

*Purple pompom balls=platelets

*Salt=salt and other minerals in blood

We talked about the job of each part of our blood & the Reese helped me put each item in our jar. It ended up looking pretty gross at the end :) but he had a great time putting it together!

3 comments:

Chandra said...

Gross, but SUPER COOL!!!!

Savor The Days said...

It may look gross but little boys LOVE gross...and that's what will make it stick in their memories.

Quirky Momma said...

Brilliant. I love it and will use it with my preschoolers! I bet we can replace the pompoms with vanilla wafers and the "yelloo water" with apple juice so the whole drink is edible too!