Marbles Flour Crater

Small rocks marbles or other weighted objects for making craters astronaut figure for sensory play after the crater making activity round baking pan any shape will do but a circular one gives it a moon shape look.

Marbles flour crater. 1 2 cup of cooking oil. Meteorites are huge rocks that crashed into earth and the moon at high speeds a long time ago. Discuss with your child how and why the craters are forming. Does it make a difference if you drop the balls or marbles from different heights.

The book also suggests using different materials to make layers like sand flour and cocoa. When dropped from a given height the greater the volume the larger the crater. Gather some marbles and balls of different sizes and weights. Simulate what happens when a meteor hits the moon using flour and marbles or small toys.

Add 4 cups or so of any baking flour to a bowl. Drop them onto your moon surface. Repeat steps 2 and 3 a few times so that you can see several craters. Fill the pan about 2 cm deep with flour lightly sprinkle the drinking chocolate to cover the entire surface.

Marbles and different sized balls. Do different balls and marbles make different kinds of craters. You can experiment with dropping the marbles at various distances from the moon s surface. You can just drop them to start and if your child has good aim feel free to throw the marbles into the flour.

4 cups of baking flour. The greater an object s velocity the larger its impact crater. Fill a tray with sand or flour. The sizes of the craters depends on the sizes of the marbles or toys and the drop height.

Don t pack it down the surface should be powdery like the moon. When dropped from a given height the greater the mass the larger the crater. Look at the crater the marble stone has made. Then compare the different craters formed by the marbles.

Making craters with marbles. How to make moon dough.