Gummy bear Osmosis is a fast gummy bear experiment for osmosis.

The gummy bears should not be eaten by your kids after they have soaked in the various solutions.Your kids will be handling them and putting them back in the fluids, which will make the ones in baking soda and vinegar taste bad.

If you have a cat like we do, the cat might lick from the containers and/or drop a hair among the various solutions.

I talked about the importance of scientific procedures and how data can be contaminated because of our cat.My kids know that our experiment was a lot of fun.

You might want to buy two bags of gummy bears, one for the experiment and the other for nibbling.

Most candy is dissolved in water.If you want your kids to understand that this is true, you should try this experiment first.

gummy bears are not dissolved in water.They are made with gelatin.Gelatin and water are heated and mixed when gummy bears are made.As the mixture cools, water leaves the candy and it becomes gummy/chewy.

When you put a gummy bear in water, it's a solvent and a solute.The water was removed when the gummy bear was made, so the water is now moving into the bear.Osmosis is the process of moving water from a higher concentration to a lower one.

G gummy bears have holes in their surface that allow small particles like water to enter, but don't let larger particles out.

There is less water at the beginning of the experiment.As time goes on, the gummy bear will act like a sponge, absorbing water rather than being dissolved in it.

The actual experiment runs for 48 hours, but it takes less than an hour to set up.

The water gummy bear lost part of its leg.Some of the water solutions have gummy particles in them.

I have heard that our gummy bear is not a blob yet.Did we do something wrong?

A lot of gummy bears are falling apart.They will not make it after 72 hours.The gummy is a blob.The water and soda gummy bears are falling apart.The kids were having fun with this gummy bear experiment.

If you would like to use them, I have included the forms I used.

There is a tap water.

Salt water.

Sugar water.

Soda.