So, who saw the picture go around Facebook a few months ago about making a glow lantern out of 1/4 bottle of Mt. Dew, a "tiny" bit of baking soda, and 3 cap fulls of peroxide? Well, I just HAD to try it, i mean, come on, if it worked, it would be awesome, would never drink Mt. Dew again, but could be a lot of fun! And if it didn't work, well, we had a failed science experiment.
Mike and the girls made Mt. Dew glow lanterns today for craft time after we got home from Lodi. Well, guess what, it failed, and Snopes.com busted it too. They did not glow at ALL. But, Mike was not to be deterred. He was going to make those lanterns "glow" one way or another. First, they put flashing LED lights in the bottles and ran up to our closet in our room to see them "flash" and "glow." Then they came back down and found glow sticks that the girls got for Christmas and decided to break them and stick them in the lanterns. Personally, I thought that they should have broken them open and poured the contents into the soda bottles, but mike thought that they would be too diluted. But, they glowed, see?
After the kids went to bed, we decided to mix the blue and red glow sticks and see what happened if we added it to water. So, we broke them (and in the process discovered that the thing you break to get glowsticks to glow is actually glass!) and poured the glow stuff into a bottle of water, shook it up, and ran up the steps. We had the PRETTIEST purple glowing water for about 2 minutes until it totally died and no longer glowed. But, I will still take a moment to say: I was right and you were wrong :-p
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