Minnesota, it’s so cold that… you can light up your sidewalk walkway with ice lantern luminaries. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
If you’re looking for some fun ideas for ice decorations for your Super Bowl party, try making these luminaries out of ice .
Minnesota Cold Part 19A shows you how to make Ice Glasses and Ice Bowls.
Minnesota Cold Part 19B shows you how to make Ice Candle Holders, Ice Bowls, and Ice Vases.
Minnesota, it’s so cold that… you can make candle holders, bowls, and vases out of ice. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
If you’re looking for some fun ideas for ice decorations for your Super Bowl party, try making these ice orb candle holders made out of ice, bowls made out of ice, and vases made out of ice for your frozen flowers.
Minnesota Cold Part 19A shows you how to make Frozen Ice Glasses and Frozen Ice Bowls.
Minnesota Cold Part 20 show you how to make Ice Luminaries for your winter party.
Minnesota, it’s so cold that… you can make glasses and a punch bowl out of ice. . Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
If you’re looking for some fun ideas for ice decorations for your Super Bowl party, try making these frozen ice glasses and punch bowl. I also show you how to make the slushy punch to drink with it.
Minnesota Cold Part 19B shows you how to make Ice Candle Holders, Ice Bowls, and Ice Vases.
Minnesota Cold Part 20 show you how to make Ice Luminaries for your winter party.
Minnesota, it’s so cold that… you can test out extreme heat versus the extreme cold. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
Materials:
Large Knife
Blow Torches
Old Minnesota Cold Experiments
Hot Water Experiment (2 liter bottle, funnel, boiling water)
Hot Chocolate (cup of hot chocolate)
Frozen T-Shirt (t-shirt, hanger, bowl of water)
Towel Sled (small towel, 2 small cans)
Snowman Pinata (balloon, paper towels)
Human Snowball (Wubble Bubble Ball)
Watermelon Bowling (frozen watermelon)
Instant Slurpee (2-liter bottle of soda pop)
Frozen Banana Hammer (frozen banana, nail, board)
Icicles
Steps:
Freeze the item from the Minnesota Cold Experiment.
Heat up the knife until it gets red hot.
Attempt to cut the item with the knife.
See whether the extreme heat or extreme cold wins!
Minnesota, it’s so cold that… if you don’t have a sled, you can make one out of frozen Orbeez. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
Materials:
Two large storage containers that will hold about 8 gallons each
One cup of dry Orbeez
Two sleds
LED Christmas lights with battery back
Water
Strainer
Bricks
Hill to sled down
Cold weather
Steps:
Measure out 1/2 cup of Orbeez for each container. Add about 7-8 gallons of water to each container.
Let the Orbeez sit overnight to soak up the water.
Use the strainer to scoop the Orbeez into the bottom sled.
Put the second sled on top of the first. Use the bricks to weight down the top sled.
Wait for the Orbeez to freeze (this will take much longer than you expect).
Bring the sled with the frozen Orbeez to a hill. Tip it over and pop out the frozen Orbeez sled.
Sled down the hill.
Repeat if it doesn’t break into pieces.
Helpful Hints:
Use plenty of LED lights so that if the Orbeez sled breaks, it will still be held together.
Make sure that the temperature is very cold so it freezes more quickly.
01 – Metro Escalator02 – Metro Car03 – Washington Monument04 – Ronald Reagan Center05 – Metro Station06 – National Archives Pillars07 – Metro Station08 – Roosevelt Memorial Fountain09 – Ice Cream Truck10 – Library of Congress11 – Washington Monument12 – US Capitol13 – US Mint14 – US Capitol Fountain15 – Jefferson Memorial16 – Washington Monument17 – Metro Car18 – Air and Space Museum19 – Air and Space Museum20 – Air and Space Museum21 – FBI Police Car22 – The White House23 – US Capitol24 – Tidal Basin25 – Union Station26 – Natural History Museum27 – Annoyed Kids at Tidal Basin27 – National Archives Stairs29 – National Archives Stairs30 – National Mall Lincoln Memorial31 – Washington Monument Elevator32 – Supreme Court33 – National Mall
See her original dance featured on entertainment TV:
The Disneyland Dancing mom recently took her dance to Hawaii. She did the dance in 36 different locations around the Big Island of Hawaii. Here are pictures of all the places she did her dance:
001 – Ocean in Kona
002 – Waipi’o Valley
003 – Pu’uhonua Honaunau
004 – Rainforest near Kilauea Crater005 – Lava Tubes near Kilauea Crater006 – Black Sand Beach near007 – Palm Trees near Ahalanui Warm Spring008 – Bridge near ‘Akaka Falls009 – Road to Waipi’o Valley010 – Snorkeling at Kahalu’u Beach011 – South of Hilo012 – Outside the Lava Tubes near Kilauea Crater013 – Dusk near ‘Anaeho’omalu Beach014 – Waterfalls at Kolekole Beach Park015 – Dusk at ‘Anaeho’omalu Beach016 – Pu’uhonua Honaunau017 – Tree Roots near Ahalanui Warm Spring018 – Ocean in Kona019 – Tiki Lights near ‘Anaeho’omalu Beach020 – Kilauea Crater021 – No Life Guard Stand at Ahalanui Warm Spring022 – Waterfalls in Waipi’o Valley023 – South Point024 – Zip Line in Umauma Falls025 – Tipped Over Tree near Ahalanui Warm Spring026 – South Point027 – Sunset in ‘Anaeho’omalu Bay028 – Sand Dunes and Ocean near Makalawena029 – Rainforest near Kilauea Crater030 – Black Sand Beach in Waipi’o Valley031 – Pu’uhonua Honaunau032 – Ocean at Kolekole Beach Park033 – Lava Field near Makalawena034 – Kilauea Crater035 – Alii Drive in Kona036 – Sunset in ‘Anaeho’omalu Bay
See her original dance featured on entertainment TV:
Minnesota, it’s so cold that… if you throw a pot of boiling water off a seven story building, it vaporizes before it hits the ground. Watch and subscribe to the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: http://www.youtube.com/nziegler . Special thanks to Steve Carlisle for his assistance in this video.
Materials:
Pot of boiling water
A very high building
A really cold day
Steps:
Boil a large pot of water on the stove or on a burner. (You may have to reheat it when you get to the top floor.)
On the roof of a very tall building, carefully approach the edge.
Throw the pot of water off the edge of the building.
Helpful Hints:
Make sure that it is a building that people do not walk next to. If not all of the water vaporizes, you may burn someone with the boiling water.
Have someone watch it from below (not directly below). That’s the best view.
Minnesota, it’s so cold that… if you forget your flowers outside, they’ll freeze overnight and shatter in the morning. Special thanks to Chicago-Lake Floral in Minneapolis for the donation of the flowers. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
Materials:
Flowers
A hard surface outside to shatter the flowers
Cold weather
Steps:
Pick up some flowers from the local flower shop.
Set the flowers outside for several hours or overnight.
Smash the flowers on your sidewalk for a great effect.
Helpful Hints:
Ask your florist for flowers that they are going to throw out for the weekend (you might get them for free).
Flowers that have begun or have already opened, work the best.
Minnesota, it’s so cold that… you can make a human snowball out of frozen towels and roll it down the hill with someone inside. Special thanks to Hugh Brown for going into the human snowball and Steve Carlisle for helping shoot some of the video. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
Materials:
Large inflatable ball
Thin towels
Camping chairs
Watering can
Knife
Large hill
Cold temperatures
Steps:
Inflate a large inflatable ball. Start in the house, then move outside.
Cover the ball with layers of wet towels.
Cut a hatch in the towels so you can get in and out.
Pour water over the towels until a thicker layer of ice has formed (about 15 times).
Cut the hatch back open and bring your human snowball to a large hill.
Put someone inside of the human snowball (with a helmet), then cover the hatch with a wet towel.
Push them down the hill and help them get out if the ball doesn’t break.
Repeat if the ball isn’t crushed.
Helpful Hints:
Make sure it’s really cold. The towels and layers of ice freeze much faster that way.
Don’t inflate the ball too much or else it will pop.
Minnesota – It’s so cold that… you can make maple syrup candy in the snow. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler
Materials:
Tall Pan
100% Pure Maple Syrup
Candy Thermometer
Snow
Steps:
Pour a cup or two of 100% pure maple syrup into a tall pan.
Turn the heat to medium-low.
Slowly simmer the syrup until is reaches 235 degrees F (113 C) . This takes about 25 minutes. See the video for how the bubbles change as it nears that temperature.
Bring the pan outside and pour into the snow in long strips.
Lift from the snow and enjoy!
Helpful Hints:
Don’t use a short pan. Don’t set the stove to high. (See the video for what happens if you make this mistake.)
Minnesota – It’s so cold that… you can freeze your trampoline and jump from your garage to break it. *** Warning. Please do not try this one at home. *** Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
Minnesota – It’s so cold that… you can freeze your trampoline. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
Materials:
Trampoline
Water Hose
Water
Steps:
Take the safety net off of the trampoline.
Wait for it to get cold enough then shovel off the snow.
Hook the garden hose up to your utility sink with an adapter.
Cover the trampoline with a layer of water mist, then let it freeze (bring the hose back inside).
Add a second layer of water to the trampoline.
Jump backwards as high as you can onto the trampoline.
Helpful Hints:
Make sure to jump with your back to the ice so you don’t cut your face with the ice.
Bring the hose inside each time or else it will freeze solid.
Our Christmas tree was just too tall. The only option I could think of was to bring it back to the tree farm. So back it went. Music used with permission: Jingle Bells Calm and Jingle Bells 3 by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Had some fun with the kids and the first snowfall of the year. This video was precursor to the viral “Frozen Trampoline” video. Music used with permission: Circus Waltz FX by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Each year in Minnesota we try to guess when the ice will “go out.” There’s a few weeks when the lakes have some open water and ice on them. In this video, I attempt to paddle fast enough to get the canoe up onto the ice.
When you live in Minnesota, you never know what kind of weather you’re going to get during Spring Break. On this particular year, it snowed 10 inches overnight. It made for a fun last day of Spring Break for me and the kids. Music used with permission: Gold Rush by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Our neighbor’s dog Flynn pulls our kids and his through the park on a toboggan. Royalty free music used with permission from Sony Creative Software. To use this video in a commercial player or in broadcasts, please email licensing@storyful.com
I thought it would be fun to take a bike ride through downtown Minneapolis with my new GoPro camera. Here’s what it’s like from the biker’s perspective. Music used with permission: Call to Adventure by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Hot Water in Minnesota. A short film about what happens when you throw hot water in cold Minnesota. It was -19 degrees Fahrenheit when this movie was filmed. The movie was filmed entirely with a GoPro video camera. Music used with permission: Barroom Ballet by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Minnesota – It’s so cold that… you can make a piñata with water instead of paste. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
Materials:
A large bag of candy
3 balloons
Paper towels, cut in strips
Warm water in a bowl
3 shallow pans or large plates
Knife and/or scissors
String
Marker
Baseball bat
Steps:
Blow up the three balloons, making one large, one medium, and one small one.
Dip the strips of paper towel in the warm water and cover the balloons. Use the pans or large plates to catch the water under each balloon. Cover the balloons completely with a layer of paper towels.
Repeat Step 2, this time placing the strips at a perpendicular angle to the first layer of paper towels. When finished, the balloons should have two layers of paper towels.
Set the balloons outside to freeze.
Once frozen, bring the balloons back inside. Cut a rectangular flap on each of them and remove the deflated balloon from inside the frozen paper towels sphere. For the largest sphere, keep the tail of the balloon on it so you can later tie the string to it.
Take a long piece of string and tie it to the end of the largest sphere. Cut two small holes on each end of the other two balloons. String together the spheres so they are stacked in a column of three, looking like a snowman. Leave extra string on the top.
Stuff the parts with candy and cover the openings with more paper towels.
Using a marker, draw on the snowman’s face on the top and smallest balloon. Add doodles.
With the extra string at the top, hang up the snowman piñata. Take the bat and have at it!
Helpful Hints:
Make sure the balloons are entirely covered with the paper towel strips when coating them.
Minnesota – It’s so cold that… you can make your own slurpees outside. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
Materials:
2-liter bottle of pop of your choice
Knife
Cup
Steps:
Set outside the bottle of pop. Put it in the snow to get cold but do not let it begin turning into a solid.
While the pop is still liquid in the bottle, remove the cap while still outside. The liquid should quickly turn into a slushy. The time it takes varies greatly depending on the temperature. At -10 degrees Fahrenheit on the cement or in the snow, it takes less than an hour and a half to go from room temperature to slurpee.
Bring it inside, let it thaw for a moment, and then cut off the top of the bottle and pour the slushy into a cup.
Helpful Hints:
Monitor your pop bottle closely. Once it begins to ice over, you’ve waited too long.
The time it takes for the pop to be ready varies greatly with the temperature. Test it a few times with your current temp before showing the experiment to others.
Handle the bottle very carefully. Jarring the bottle early may cause problems with the freezing effect.
It does not work well to redo the experiment after the pop has already frozen.
To speed up the process, cool it in the fridge first.
Minnesota – It’s so cold that… you can go bowling outside with a watermelon. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
Materials:
10 empty 2-liter bottles
Water
Food coloring
Watermelon
Permanent marker
Knife
Steps:
Fill the ten 2-liter bottles with water, then add about five drops of food coloring into the water of the bottles. Put the bottle caps back on. Set all of the bottles outside to freeze.
On your watermelon, mark three dots for finger holes. Cut out the holes with a knife, draining the watermelon as you do so. (Some water will be inside, of course.) Bring the watermelon outside to freeze as well.
Once the water in the bottles are frozen solid and the watermelon is hard, set up your “pins” and go bowling!
Helpful Hints:
When cutting the holes for your fingers in the watermelon, keep in mind your finger size with gloves on, so make the holes somewhat larger than you would for your fingers normally.
It snowed 12 inches so I videotaped my bike commute to work the next day. I duct taped our video camera to the handlebars and this is what I got. Music used with permission by Royalty Free Music.
Minnesota – It’s so cold that…you can squirt a Super Soaker water gun and the water vaporizes. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
Materials:
Super Soaker
Boiling water
A funnel
Steps:
Take the boiling water and, using the funnel, pour it into the Super Soaker.
After bringing the Super Soaker outside, shoot the water into the air and it will turn into vapor.
Helpful Hints:
Be careful and make sure to use oven mitts or some sort of gloves when pouring the boiling water into the Super Soaker.
Don’t shoot it at other people. The water coming out is still near the boiling point and will burn someone if you are not careful.
Minnesota – It’s so cold that… you can build an igloo and stand on it by just shoveling a bunch of snow into a pile and hollowing it out. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
Materials:
Shovel
A lot of snow
Steps:
Shovel together a large mound of snow. Let it harden for a few hours after making it.
Use the shovel to hollow it out inside, creating an entrance and then taking most of the snow out from inside of the mound. Leave it to freeze for a little while longer.
Once it is frozen solid, go and stand on the igloo! It shouldn’t break.
Helpful Hints:
It needs to be quite cold for this to work. Negative temps are ideal.
Try to jump on it and break it when you are done.
For additional fun, wire a TV to your Quinzhee and enjoy some hot chocolate outside while watching the Olympics:
Minnesota – It’s so cold that… you can freeze a t-shirt into a ball and shatter it against a wall (or at least you can try). This one didn’t work! Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
Materials:
T-shirt
Pot of boiling water
Tongs or other utensil
Gloves
Steps:
Bring the pot of boiling water outside and dip the t-shirt in the water until it is soaked.
Remove the shirt and wring it out. Roll it into a ball.
Leave it to freeze until it is solid.
Throw it against a wall and watch it shatter.
Helpful Hints:
The t-shirt was very hot when I was wringing out, so be sure to be careful.
I couldn’t get the t-shirt to shatter, but it still made a good ball. If you managed to get it to shatter, let me know in the comments!
Minnesota – It’s so cold that… you can freeze a towel and go sledding on it. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
Materials:
An old towel
3 large paint cans
A bowl of warm water
A hill to sled down
Steps:
Dip the old towel in the bucket of water until it is completely wet.
Lay the towel flat on the ground outside.
Set the paint cans adjacently near one end of the towel, and fold the end of the towel over the cans to create a curve when the towel freezes.
Leave the towel until it is frozen solid. Slide the cans out from the towel. Lean the towel-sled against a wall and pour the second bucket of water onto the bottom of the sled to make it slick. Leave it out for a while longer, overnight if you would like.
Find a good snowy hill and head down on your sled!
Helpful Hints:
Make sure the sidewalk is cleared of snow to make the under-surface more smooth.
Your sidewalk will have a patch of ice after dumping the last layers of water over the sled. You may want to do this last step somewhere away from your sidewalk.
Minnesota – It’s so cold that… you can freeze a t-shirt and break it against a wall. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
Materials:
Large pot of boiling water
Tongs or utensil to dip the t-shirt
T-shirt
Steps:
Boil a large pot of water.
Take the t-shirt and dip it in the water until it is soaked.
Bring the t-shirt outside, lying it out flat.
Return in a few minutes and pick up the frozen t-shirt. Find a hard surface and break it into pieces!
Helpful Hints:
It might be hard to break the t-shirt into pieces, so tear it with your hands or try other ways of breaking it.
You can also put it on a hanger to freeze if you don’t have a good place to lay the shirt down.
Minnesota – It’s so cold that… bubbles freeze when you blow them outside. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
Materials:
Bubbles
Really cold weather
Steps:
Blow a generous amount of bubbles outside and watch them freeze!
Helpful Hints:
Blow the bubbles near a dark surface so you can see them better when they land.
Try to catch the bubbles on your wand so you can watch them crystallize.
Minnesota – It’s so cold that… your hair freezes if you don’t dry it before going outside. I somehow talked my wife into helping me with this one. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
Materials:
A wet head of hair (or a wife that puts up with your Minnesota Cold antics!)
Steps:
After your shower, forgo the blow dryer or even a towel if you are brave. Make sure your hair is wet. (All the low-maintenance people rejoice.)
Go into the cold outdoors with your wet hair for a minute. Your hair will freeze!
Helpful Hints:
Hang upside down for an especially visible outcome.
Make sure your wife loves you a lot before asking for help with this one.
Minnesota – It’s so cold that… you can pound a nail with a frozen banana. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
Materials:
Banana
Nail
Wooden board
Steps:
Take a banana and leave it outside on a cold winter day until it is frozen solid.
Forget about a hammer! Use the frozen banana to pound the nail into the board (or your chosen surface).
Helpful Hints:
Pound the nail and not your hand.
If you’ve got a large construction project, maybe forget the banana and remember a hammer again.
Minnesota – It’s so cold that… you can throw hot water in the air and it vaporizes. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
Materials:
Mug
Boiling water
Steps:
Fill a mug with boiling water.
Bring the mug outside into cold winter air and throw the water upwards.
Helpful Hints:
Make sure to throw the water at an angle to save face. It will burn you if any leftover water lands on you!
