This was a lot of fun. Hard to wait for a week to see the results, but the girls had fun pouring the cups out to discover what was inside. Here are the results, and then I'll put in the girls' reports on their findings at the end.
Here they are with the apples in the cups.
These three, one above and two below, show the one in salt. The salt had solidified, and they had to chip the apple out.
These three show the apple that was put in cornmeal.
The girls wanted to replicate a mummy with wrappings, so they wrapped an apple slice in paper towels and put it in sand.
These next three show the one put in sugar.
The apple put in sugar was wet and moldy gross.
This one was a surprise to me. I had read that you could replicate natron, the mummifying agent the Egyptians used, by adding baking soda to salt. As you can see in the above and below photos, the results were pretty nasty. I thought it would work better.
These two, above and below, show the apple slice left in salt and lime juice.
The rest show the slice left in sand.
It looked so good that I washed it off.
Sliced it up, and made them eat it. Not me though.
They liked it, and said it tasted just like a normal apple. They had fun eating a "mummified" apple.
Here are their results. Both sides of Miss M's, then both sides of Miss A's.
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