TEM E xperiment

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Milk and Vineg

Ingredients and equipment:

• 1 cup of milk
• 4 tablespoons of white, distilled vinegar
• 1 or more colours of food colouring (optional)
• sprinkles, glitter or other things to add (optional)
• saucepan/pot
• strainer
• cup measure
• timer or stopwatch
• paper towel
• cookie cutters (optional)
• string for threading (optional)

Disclaimer
This resource is provided for informational and educational purposes only. As this resource refers to food
items/ingredients, and hot appliances, you must ensure that an adequate risk assessment is carried out prior
to using this resource. You must contact a suitably qualified professional if you are unsure. Twinkl is not
responsible for the health and safety of your group or environment. It is your responsibility to ensure you are
aware of the allergies and health conditions of anyone making or consuming these products.

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Instructions:

1. Measure out the one cup of milk using the cup

measure and tip it into the saucepan or pot.
2. Heat the milk in the saucepan or pot until it is almost boiling. An
alternative method is to use a microwave safe bowl and heat the
milk to almost boiling point in a microwave. Depending on the power
of the microwave, it would take about 90 seconds.
3. Once the milk is almost
boiling, take the saucepan
or pot off the stove and add
the four tablespoons of white
vinegar. Stir really well for
about one minute, using the
timer or stopwatch to make
sure you stir for long enough.
4. Once the minute is up and clumps have formed, use the strainer to
remove the remaining liquid, leaving only the clumps of milk.
5. Leave the clumps to the side for a while to cool down.
6. When the clumps are cool enough, rinse them off with water then
push them together and wrap
them in a piece of paper towel to
take away any remaining water.
7. Now comes the time to add in
any food colouring, glitter or
other additives to decorate your
milk plastic. Make sure to mix it
together really well.

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8. Press your milk chunks together into a flat shape and

use a cookie cutter to select the final shape of your
milk plastic. If you don’t
have cookie cutters, you can
use your fingers to shape the flat
mixture however you like. Other options
include making little round balls or other three
dimensional shapes and using a toothpick to
make a hole through the centre. Then, they can be
threaded onto a piece of string to make a necklace
or similar.
9. Once you have made your final
shape, place the mixture onto a
piece of paper towel and allow
it to dry for at least two days.
Depending on the weather, it may
take extra time to dry and harden.
10. If you made the shapes for
threading, you can thread these
onto string.

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Student Recording Sheets

Prediction
1. Before you start the experiment, write and draw a prediction
about what you think is going to happen to the milk when it is
heated up and the vinegar is added.






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Design
2. Use the space below to draw and label the shape you are going to
make out of the plastic when it is finished. Remember to label what
things you might like to use in your plastic, like glitter, colours and
any other equipment you need.

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Observations
3. In the spaces below, write and draw what you observe as you work
through the experiment.

4. How many millilitres are in one cup?

5. Approximately how many millilitres are in four tablespoons? 

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Results
6. Draw and describe your final shape. Remember to include
information about what you made and why you made it. You also
might like to write about how you are going to use your object.










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