Candy Experiments

Have you heard about candyexperiments.com? I read about it in a magazine, then told my sis about it, and she went directly into the kitchen to try to find some candy. A mom started the website after trying a few experiments with her kids. They had so much fun that the next year, the kids picked out a few pieces of candy to eat, then happily donated the rest to science.

The one we tried is the M&M experiment. You put an M&M (or Skittle) in a bowl of water for a couple of minutes, and the "M" peels off completely intact, and floats to the top. Crazy!


The candy coating also dissolves and floats to the top, looking really gross.



Our kids loved it! They started trying all sorts of candy, whatever we could find. Jacob was content to suck on a peppermint, then spit it into the water, then suck on it for awhile, then spit it out again. Loads of fun (ilch!). We're excited to get some Tootsie Pops or Lemonheads from Halloween, so we can try some even cooler experiments.