Frozen Balloon - Experiment

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You can drink water. Or you can put it in a balloon and you have made a water balloon. What happens when you put the water balloon in a freezer?

Materials

  • balloon
  • cold water tap
  • freezer
  • dishwashing tub
  • 10 minutes on day 1
  • 15 minutes on day 3

Step by step

  • day 1
  • Step 1. fill the balloon with tap water
  • Step 2. let all the air escape from the balloon
  • Step 3. tie up the balloon
  • Question 1. What do you think that will happen when you leave the balloon in the freezer for two days?
  • Step 4. put the balloon in the freezer
  • Step 5. wait two days
  • day 3
  • Step 6. take the balloon out of the freezer
  • Step 7. remove the rubber layer
  • Question 2. What has happened?
  • Question 3. Why do you think this is?
  • Step 8. fill the tub with water
  • Step 9. put the contents from the balloon in the tub
  • Question 4. What happens?
  • Question 5. Why do you think this is?