Rhett's Field Trip

About a week ago Rhett had his first second grade field trip to CAC to learn all about corn. It was a lot of fun, and Rhett definitely wants to go back again someday.

Here we are waiting to leave the school

When we got there, everyone got some popcorn and watched a cartoon
Then everyone got to sing some songs

Here is the teacher teaching how to make plastic out of corn products. It was really cool, and we got the recipe:

1. Place 2 tablespoons of cornstarch in a cup

2. Add 4 drops of corn oil

3. Add 2 tablespoons of water
4. Stir

5. Add 4 drops of food color and stir again

6. Microwave for 50 seconds on high-you can pour into a mold dusted with cornstarch if you like

7. Cool slightly and push out of cup or mold

8. It should look like a muffin or the shape of the mold

Here is the next teacher teaching how corn used to be ground with rocks, how many kernels are typically on a corn cob-800 and how many rows they have-I don't remember, 20? Anyway, after she was done telling the history of corn, everyone got to grind their own corn-enough for one Cheeto

My hard little worker grinding away

Here's the corn Rhett ground all by himself

The next class was a cooking class on how to use corn products. She made Johnnycakes--soooo good!!!!

Then we took a lunch break and the moms visited

Here's my group waiting patiently to go through the maze

Entering the corn maze

Throughout the maze there were random facts about corn that all of the kids got to take turns reading to each other

When we got through the maze, the kids all got to pick 5 ears of corn to take home for decoration, or to turn into bird feed. The kids had so much fun!!!