A House Full of Mixtures!

You can use many things in your home to experiment with mixtures! With help from your family, look around your home for objects that you can mix together.


A chid with his mother at a table with mixing bowls.


Have an adult help you find objects around the home to mix together. For each mixture that you make, list the two objects that you are mixing together. Make notes about the two objects. Write whether the objects were hard or easy to mix together. Describe what your mixture looks like. Next, mix different solids with water make the same observations and notes for each mixture.


What did you like mixing together? Do you think that your mixtures can be separated? Why or why not? Can you think of things at school that you could mix together?