Science Fair

The papers came home. Yep. That's right! Lulu's school is having a science fair this year and she has to come up with a project idea.

I'm not the biggest science fair fan. It's just that science fair projects have lots of rules and are a whole lotta work for not a lot of fun (in my opinion). Well, as an adult I would like to participate, but it was never fun for me as a child.

Last night we/I reminisced my science fair projects from my childhood.

Let's see. There was the time that I dropped objects out of the barn hayloft to answer the question: Does the weight of an object affect its freefall to the ground?











The next year I hid my science fair paper and ended up growing mold on bread at the last minute.












After that I added different types of manure to plants to see which one worked best for plant growth (which is really cool for a budding tween-ager - thanks Grand Matriarch). I added horse, rabbit, and goat manure to my plants. If I remember correctly, the rabbit manure worked the best.



My middle school project was inspired by copied from someone I knew who was a few years older than me. It dealt with acid rain. I won for my grade level, in my tiny school, and went on to the county science fair. At the county fair, I was most embarrassed when one of the judges asked me what the acidity level was for the rain in my area and I didn't know. The judge just looked at me and said, "Well, ask that guy over there." That guy was a competitor standing across the aisle. Great!

And there ended my science fair adventures.

Lulu wants to test "if age affects the areas where certain tastes are detected on a tongue." She came up with this all on her own. We have a week to change our minds.

Do you have any favorite science fair projects from your childhood? Please - do share!