The children are always excited about science lessons, though we haven’t done much for a while. Today we learned about cells and how they are the building blocks for all living organisms. To demonstrate what a cell is composed of, we made a jello model.

Here are the boys with their cell model.  We used various food products, mostly candies, to model different parts of a cell.  The big marshmallow in the middle is the nucleus. Endoplasmic reticulum is made up of fruit by the foot. Lysosomes, mitochondria, and others are made of various candies.

The boys posing for the camera next to their “cell”:

Kids adding Nerds candies to make the ribosomes:

The best part of this project is eating it: