Water Olympics

On Friday the Young Naturalists explored the properties of water in Water Olympics! There were several stations set up at the outdoor picnic tables with different water activities.

At the boat station, campers strategized to fit as many pennies as they could on a piece of aluminum foil without sinking it! Many campers just kept the foil flat; others built it into a boat.


At the eye dropper table, campers were challenged to make the eye dropper go up and down inside the soda bottle without opening the bottle! Some people realized if you squeezed the bottle hard, the eye dropper would go up and down!


Campers tried to beat the record of how many water droplets could fit on one penny. I heard one camper say he got up to 32!


Oobleck was popular as campers got to feel a substance that behaved sort of like water in some ways, and not at all like water in others!