Today we finally remembered to heat set the crayon with an iron. Every time we play with it he notices the crayon fading slightly because I have been a little slow getting around to finishing it!
(You can color most fabrics with crayon and simply put paper over it and iron with a hot iron to set the crayon/color into the fabric to make it more permanent.)
After hours of fun driving, and hours of entertainment coloring we sat together in the store's class room with the hot iron.
It was a perfect opportunity to discuss Solid, Liquid, and Gas.
Zeru pointed out that "Bama [grandma] puts water in their in the ironing machine."
I reminded him of one of our 'S' words from earlier in the day (Steam) and begun the conversation.
"What is liquid?" and he quickly rambled off all sorts of drinks, and just about anything involving strawberry!
"What is solid?" he figured that one out pretty quickly too.
"What is gas?"
"You know, the stuff we put in the car..." he began!
After a short explanation he understood that water is liquid, but when it gets really cold it becomes solid, and when it gets really hot it becomes a gas. Next will be explaining lava as a liquid rock!
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