This summer, turn snack time into science time with the Frozen Drink Maker Set and Quicksicle Maker®! While these products make fun frozen treats in minutes, you can teach your kids or grandkids some chill lessons. Here’s how they work, what ingredients to use, and which tasty recipes to try.
How to Set Up & Conduct Your Experiment
Sugar is more than just a sweetener—It’s actually the magic that keeps your homemade slushies smooth and your popsicles nice and icy. Why? Because it lowers the freezing point of water kind of like how salt melts ice on sidewalks.
1. Pick Your Potion
To start this experiment, choose a base beverage. You’ll have the best (and most tasty results) with fruit juice, chocolate milk, a carbonated beverage, or blended fruit.
Please Note: Don’t add plain water or sugar-free beverages to the Frozen Drink Maker or Quicksicle Maker®. The resulting mixture will be extremely difficult to remove and may even break the product(s).
2. Set the Parameters
Pour your drinks into three small cups and stir in different amounts of a natural sweetener. You can use honey, agave nectar, or even maple syrup.
Add no sweetener to the first cup.Add a little sweetener to the second cup.Add a lot of sweetener to the third cup.
Pop the cups into the fridge for a bit. This will freeze your treats faster!
3. Start the Experiment
Remove your Frozen Drink Makers or Quicksicle Maker® from the freezer.
If you’re using the Frozen Drink Maker Set:
Please note: You’ll only be able to conduct the experiment with two of the drink cups at a time.Pour the first cup into the Freezing Cup.Encourage your kid to scrape and stir for 8–15 minutes.
If you’re using the Quicksicle Maker®:
Place three sticks in three molds.Slowly pour each drink cup into a separate mold.Leave the Quicksicle Maker® on your counter and let it freeze the popsicles for 8–15 minutes.
4. Observe & Taste Test
Help guide your kid’s curiosity by asking them the following questions as they react to their homemade slushie or popsicle variations.
Which one tastes the best?Which one looks smoothest?Which one froze faster?Was one of the slushies harder to stir than the others?Which one is the easiest to scoop or eat?Which one is super icy?Which one is really hard?Can you tell which one has more or less sugar just by tasting it or looking at it?
5. Share the Reasoning
Now it’s time to share why the different slushies and popsicles turned out the way they did. Since both the Frozen Drink Maker and Quicksicle Maker® have a cooling liquid inside that gets super cold (below freezing!), they can freeze the slushies and popsicles quickly.
This is where the sugar comes into play. When you have sugar in your drink mix, it lowers the freezing point of the liquid and prevents the mixture from freezing into a solid block of ice. That’s why the slushies and popsicles with more sugar turn out softer and smoother while the versions with little to no sugar get very hard and cold.
It’s Time to Treat Yourself!
After you test the science, you can always taste the fun! Use your Frozen Drink Maker Set or Quicksicle Maker® to make these sweet recipes and turn your kitchen into the coolest lab around.
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