The Big Bang Fair

Today started a little sadly as we'd booked to attend this event with Madi's BFF, who is now attending school. However, there was so much to do at the Big Bang Fair we didn't have time to think about that, and were quickly grabbed by the stalls, events and activities....

Madi particularly enjoyed the Harry Potter potions session we had booked, which covered some simple chemical reactions that I had covered with JK before but are so much more fun accompanied by Snape and Hermione!

From her own notes....
Volcano
White wine vinagar (sp!)
Wash up liquid
Food colouring
Baking soda
Beaker
Half fill beaker with vinager (sp!) . 1 squirt of wash up liquid. 2-3 drops of food colouring. 1 teaspoon of baking soda.

Clean coins
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons lemon juice
coin
Disolve (sp!) salt in lemon juice. clean the coin.

"No Title!"
pinch shredded red cabbage
add 1/4 cup water
mush it up
add lemon juice

Blobs in a Beaker (AKA Lava Lamp)
one cup
1/4 cup water
1/2 cup oil
few drops food colouring
1/2 alka seltzer tablet

mix it together and add half the alka seltzer tablet. you can do it again later with the other half.

But as you can see from the pictures, there really was SO much to do, and I'm glad we didn't book any more activity sessions as there was still plenty more to see in the main arena.  The only downside to an amazing 'free' day was the cost of parking, and the sheer number of people in a the venue (but particularly unaccompanied groups of secondary pupils and primary school teachers,  who appear to have very little respect for others, let alone manners!)