YEAST!

As part of school, learning about different plants and animals, we had an experiment with Yeast.

We added some honey ( we didn't have sugar in the house ), warm water and yeast into a water bottle,  and watched it start to froth.

We added a balloon over the top to be able to actually see what the frothiness was doing.

And boy, did it froth.

You were quite tickled to see the balloon start to get rigid and get bigger.

We transfered some of the mixture from the bottle onto a makeshift slide and used our trusty little microscope to look and see what we could make out.

It was way better than I could have hoped for.

We could see the little yeast cells - not in much detail, but we could tell that they were the yeast cells and if we imagined a little, we could see BUDDING, even.

And then after a while, the CO2 started taking over and all we could see were massive ( well, relatively speaking ),  were bubbles that got bigger as we watched.

Woohoo, SCIENCE!