Homemade Butter

For our first day of History Hopping we decided to churn butter!  When we agreed that we couldn't procure a Churn for each classroom we went to our next best source - plastic baggies!  Each classroom was given a ziplock bag filled with heavy cream.  They turned the bag back and forth slowly, each taking a turn.  After a while the children began to observe the cream clumping, and turning into butter!  It was a very cool experiment and we were excited to see it work.  After the butter had formed they drained the buttermilk out of the bottom of the bag and spread their butter across some tasty graham crackers!  Not bad for a day's work. :)