Water beads (again!)

It is a while since the children played with water beads, and as J is now older I thought it would be a nice idea to really spend quite a bit of time discussing and investigating the beads before adding water, just after we added the water, and then hours after adding water. J was very excited about our experiment.


The dry beads were tiny and very hard, and they stuck to our hands!

We added water and within half an hour the beads had started to absorb the water and swell up - they were squishy!

Even the older children found it therapeutic playing with the beads!

After the beads had absorbed all the water, I added some containers and spoons etc from the children's kitchen and the children had lots of fun scooping and spooning the beads into various containers.  There were beads bouncing everywhere!