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Magic ice cubes

salt

Can you get an ice cube out of water without getting your hands wet? Materials: - Salt - Drinking glass - Water - Length of string - Ice cubes The experiment steps: 1) Fill the glass with water 2) Place an ice cube in the glass 3) Dangle the end of the string on the ice [...]

The Ballybeg Winter Festival

Grandfather Lir with his Autumn Leaves collection

A little preview of Garth & Bev It’s the Ballybeg Winter Festival and Grandfather Lir asks Garth and Bev to find a way of displaying his grand collection of autumn leaves. The children accidentally discover that they can suspend them, frozen in ice. Lir is so pleased he sends them to meet Frank Epperson, who [...]