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    Home » Early Years Science » Make your own Olaf

    Make your own Olaf

    September 25, 2014 By Emma Vanstone 3 Comments

    Do you remember when we designed a house made of sweets and tried to find the best materials for its construction? We’ve followed the same concept with this fun edible science investigation to make a marshmallow Olaf from Disney’s Frozen.

    Marshmallow Olaf

    What are the best sweets for Olaf?

    Marshmallows were the obvious choice, and we decided three would be the perfect number.

    We knew we wanted the arms to be long and thin so chose candy sticks, although something brown coloured would’ve been better.

    We used segments of chocolate mint thins for his hair and raisins for his buttons.

    What can we use to fix Olaf together?

    We wanted Olaf to stick quite quickly, so decided to try cocktail sticks, marshmallow fluff and icing sugar.

    How can we test?

    We discussed what we needed to keep constant and what needed to change, we kept the number if marshmallows constant and changed the sticky part ( icing sugar, marshmallow fluff or cocktail stick )

    Our test was if Olaf would stand up on his own

    Results

    Icing sugar Olaf didn’t stand up for long, marshmallow fluff was a little better but the cocktail sticks by far the strongest in our tests.

    Extension activities

    Could you try different strengths of icing sugar? Do they hold Olaf together?

    Build and Olaf science experiment for kids #winterscienve

    What do you think? Can you think of any other materials we could’ve used?

    Build an OLAF, fun frozen science experiment for kids. #Ediblescience #Frozenscience #Scienceforkids #winterscience #ChristmasScience

    Suitable for Key stage 1 Science

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    I have a HUGE collection of fun kitchen science experiments you’ll love.

    My book Snackable Science is also jam packed full of easy, edible science investigations for kids!

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    Last Updated on November 6, 2020 by Emma Vanstone

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    Comments

    1. Wendy Finn

      September 25, 2014 at 9:29 am

      This is so cool! No pun intended 🙂 What about Matchmakers for the arms? They’re kind of twig like.

      Reply
    2. Rowan

      January 13, 2015 at 11:46 pm

      I love this idea! I might use it in Science week next week. Thank you.

      Reply

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