I found an awesome activity book on www.canolainfo.org called Captain Canola. It included various activities including a word find, crossword, and word scramble. We discussed the growth of a canola plant from seed to rossette to bolting to flowering and podding. We learned that many products are made from canola including Canola oil, lotions, bath oils, and newspaper ink! We also discussed the process canola goes through in a crush plant to be separated into canola oil and livestock feed.
We then decided to have some fun with one of the products that comes from that beautiful yellow plant! We made Playdough! In the Captain Canola activity book there was a great recipe for dough which I am happy to provide: 1C Flour, 1C Salt, 1TBSP Canola oil, mix all together and slowly add water until the product is soft and clay like...use food coloring to color to your choice!
Here are some pictures of the very fun activity!
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| Mixing Flour and Salt for the 1st step of the Playdough making! |
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| Patiently waiting for the next step! |
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| Mixing in the food coloring and Canola oil |
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| It turned out pretty good and was lots of fun to play with! |
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| Very Cute Color! Took some elbow grease but it turned into something fun! |
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| Looks pretty gooey |
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| The dough turned a few people's hands colors! |
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| Saw a Very cute "Thanks Courtney" written in play dough on one of the students desks! |
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| I had to take a picture of this! These kids have learned so much about the agriculture industry this year and it touched my heart to see a little girl write I Love Agriculture with her play dough! |
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| I love seeing smiles like this! |
Stay Tuned! For our Final meeting I will be hosting the group for a tour of Dakota Agronomy's Fertilizer plant and SunPrarie Grain's Seed plant and main grain driveway on Tuesday! It should be a fantastic time!
