Geology and Rockhounds

Thursday night SNAP friends met for a geology-based activity. Jim Baird  brought some of his rock collection to show us and he explained how fun geology can be. After his presentation, we moved to the cultural hall for some fun "geology" activities. There was a mining activity where we were given money to purchase tools and we were able to mine for chocolate chips. The Chambers made a couple of batches of quicksand from cornstarch. It is crazy stuff! There were two pools with kinetic sand, which is also weird stuff. The last table was filled with magnets of every sort for us to play with.

 We always begin with a hymn

 Brother Baird's collection

 The Joys of Geology

 A large chunk of bassalt

 It's OK to touch

 Brother and Sister Baird

 Brother Leishman was the banker; Sister Winegar was the store keeper

 Purchasing mining tools

 We're in the money!

 Mining for chocolate chips

 Messy but tasty

 Happy miners

 Two batches of cornstarch quicksand

 Brother Chambers is a wicked-awesome juggler -- with cornstarch!

 This stuff is weird

 It can't decide if it is a liquid or solid

 Friends at the sand pools

 This stuff acts strange, too

 It molds and shapes just fine

 But then it oozes

 Good times

 All manner of magnets

 That sphere is great

 Who knew you could have such fun with magnets

Magnets repel magnets

The adult leaders have fun, too

A big thanks to the Bairds and to all the leaders who created and managed the activities. It was a fun evening at SNAP.