This was such a cute little book we done back int the spring!
Warm as Wool
by Scott Russell Sanders
Wool Experiment #1
You will need some:
wool
2 pop cans
1 plastic bowl that is larger than you cans (I used a cool whip container)
hot water
2 thermometers
Boil the water and fill the pop cans 3/4s full of the hot water.
Put one of the cans in the plastic bowl and pack wool around it. Leave the other sit to the side. Put thermometers in both of them. Write down the temperature of them ever 30 minutes for 2 hours. Compare the temperatures of them at the end. Our insulated one was 86 degrees, but our non-insulated one was 64 degrees. This experiment shows why sheep's wool is so important to us and keeping us warm!
We practiced carding our wool. For this I used 2 dog hair brushes and had him use them working them against each other. Make sure you start off with a small amount of wool. This takes time!!
The next step was to use a cotton ball and have him SLOWLY pull and twist on it to form yarn.
This was off of one cotton ball!! Take you time!!
Blessings!!
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