Kids can make butter in a glass jar. Here is how:
- You need: a glass jar with a lid, 1-2 clean glass marbles, whipping cream.
- Put the marbles and cream in the jar and shake and shake – leave plenty of air space to make the shaking easier.
- Pass it around all the family members and to friends who are visiting.
- When the cream becomes really, really thick and doesn’t want to shake around any more you are almost done.
- The butter is ready when you see a lump separate out from a milky liquid.
- Serve with warm cornbread, scones, or hot toast.
If you want to keep the butter you need to put salt in it or it goes rancid. It’s best just to eat it up!
Photo taken by Game Boy this morning.
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This is cool – I remember making butter in kindergarten and eating it on fresh baked bread the teacher had brought in. It’s one of my only two memories of kindergarten. The other involved a painful fall off the swingset.
Isn’t it funny how selective memory is. I’m glad you had at least one good memory of kindergarten Janet!
May I add two helpful hints from the experimentally challenged?
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1-Very important. Don’t use the big shooter marbles. Yes, we did. And it made a lovely mess of slippery pre-butter mixed with glass.
2-It helps to prepare the cream by leaving the unopened container out for at least an hour, preferably overnight. You won’t need to shake your arms off.
Peace and Laughter!
Yes! I love this project. I’ve made butter with my preschool class before, and they always love it. There is something so magical in the transformation of cream to butter… and then you get to eat it!
I’ve found that even if the kids get tired after a while, it’s still very tasty if not fully “churned”, more like a creme fraiche or something