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    Home » Science Experiments for Kids » Candy Science – Building Towers with Sweets

    Candy Science – Building Towers with Sweets

    June 1, 2014 By Emma Vanstone 2 Comments

    We do a lot of building with LEGO, blocks and boxes and recently built a whole house from fudge, icing sugar and chocolate after testing different foodstuffs for the best cement ( icing sugar won ). Today, our candy science activity was much more simple, but huge amounts of fun, as most activities involving sweets are.

    Candy Towers

    I chose Liquorice Allsorts because the shapes of some of the sweets make them fantastic for building towers.

    I gave the children a pile of sweets and asked them to build towers. While they built we chatted about which sweets were easiest to build with and which helped make the most stable structure.

    Candy towers made with liquorice allsorts

    It’s no surprise that the square sweets were the best for building purposes, but the cylinders were great for adding some style.

    Super simple candy tower built with liquorice allsorts

    This activity is brilliant for getting children to start to link the properties of an object to it’s function, and a fun introduction to simple 3D shapes.

    What sweets would you use to build a tower? We also enjoyed building meringue towers.

    Meringue Towers

    Gummy sweets and toothpicks work well too! The tower below is part of an earthquake investigation.

    Tower made from gummy sweets and toothpicks in a flapjack foundation ready for an earthquake investigation

    More science with sweets

    Find out what makes popping candy pop with this easy investigation using pop rocks.

    Find the best ‘cement’ and use lots of different kids of sweets to build a candy house.

    Learn about changes of state with these yummy peppermint creams.

    Candy chromatography is always great fun too!

    candy towers made from liquorice allsorts

    Last Updated on April 27, 2021 by Emma Vanstone

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