No Fair!

The boys did the science fair again this year, and like the first year that AJ did it, the fair itself was cancelled due to a snowstorm.  So much work and pfffffft, very anti-climatic.  The boys were quite proud of their project, though, and they did get to show it to their classes during the school day.

The trickiest part this year was coming up with the idea.  Yes, you read that correctly, the idea.  As in one.  I heard this year that kids are allowed to do a joint project with a sibling or a friend and wondered why the heck we did two last year.  The boys happily agreed to do one together and share the work.  But this meant they had to agree on the idea.  Just one.  AJ wanted to do something with chemicals, specifically baking soda and vinegar.  David wanted to do something with animals.  After many Google searches of "elementary school science fair projects" we rejected about 27 ideas that came up that way.  They couldn't agree.  Then I realized that we needed to come up with an idea that involved something both boys already were fascinated with, obsessed with even.  And it was clear.  Nerf guns.  We needed a science fair project that involved (no, required!) them to shoot Nerf guns.  Once that was decided, it all went pretty quickly from there.  The scientific inquiry?  At what angle will a Nerf dart go the farthest?  Of course.