Sunday, January 3, 2010

Procedure

Materials:
· One piece of black paper
· Silver Sharpie
· Black Sharpie
· One bottle of 55 SPF Neutrogena Sunscreen (lotion)

· 40 Color Changing Energy Beads (blue)
· Tinfoil
· Elmer's Glue
· Oven
· Timer
· 9" by 11" baking pan
· Paper towels
· Water
· 10 small paintbrushes
· 8 small glass bowls with lids
·tablespoon measure
· Sun
· Outdoor table
· UV Scale

Steps:
1) Put 1 tablespoon of Neutrogena Sunscreen into each of the 8 bowls and with the back of the tablespoon smooth out the clumps.
2) Cover each bowl completely with tinfoil and label each numerically 1-8 with the black Sharpie. Do Not take the covers off until the end!

3) Preheat oven to 170*F.
4) Use oven mitts on the following steps involving an oven.
5) Heat all 8 bowls for 6 hours and then take set bowl 1 aside.
6) Heat the remaining bowls for another 6 hours at the same temperature and take set bowl 2 aside.
7) Repeat this processes until all the bowls have been heated the amount of times that their number states.
8) Take the black paper and fold into 10 sections. Label each as shown and trace in silver Sharpie.

From left to right across the top and then left to right across the bottom it reads: No Sunscreen, No Days in Heat, 1 Day in Heat, 2 Days in Heat, 3 Days in Heat, 4 Days in Heat, 5 Days in Heat, 6 Days in Heat, 7 Days in Heat, and 8 Days in Heat.
9) Glue four beads onto the center of each section and let dry for a day.
10) Using a small paintbrush, apply sunscreen from each bowl and original Neutrogena bottle onto the corresponding beads glued on the paper. For example, paint beads in the "1 Day in Heat" box from bowl number 1. Coat the outside and inside of the beads with a uniform layer. Be sure to wash and dry paintbrush in between each coating with lukewarm water.

11) Wait a day for sunscreen to dry.
12) Take paper outside and look for results after 5 minutes.