Electric Play Dough 4+ — Victoria Martinez

I’m a prairie kid who loves research. I have a Master’s in economics with a focus on public programs, labour and education. Long before that, I did my undergrad in physics & English with a math minor.

Besides my resume, you’ll find this page full of sewing projects, the odd published poem, and stories about Canadian science.

A note about the blog title: in math and physics, the prefix eigen means one's own. It comes from the german, but mostly I always liked thinking about a particle's eigenvalues, and thought I might apply the same thought to my excursions.

Mar 3

Mar 3 Electric Play Dough 4+

Victoria Martinez

Kids' Science, Science

There's not much I can say here, because the blog world already has us covered with great demos for making electric playdough. See this video for a great demo.

The electricity conducting dough is made using this recipe. Squishy circuits also provides the recipe for insulating dough.

We made lamps with every kind of play dough. Saturday science!

The kids in my class tasted their dough to make further hypotheses about what types of materials are conducting (awesome!), and instead of battery packs we just stuck our batteries together in series.