Homemade Old Fashioned Butter

This child-friendly activity is good for learning about science, where food comes from, and how people lived and ate back in the day. Enjoy!

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If you’re celebrating Thanksgiving with kids, homemade butter is a fitting example of a Thanksgiving STEM activity or a complementary activity for a unit study about pioneers too.

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Homemade Butter Instruction All you need is: 1. Heavy whipping cream 2. Mason jar (or another jar with a tight-fitting lid) 3. An excited child

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This process takes about 10 minutes worth of shaking/rolling (give or take). When your butter is done, separate it from your buttermilk (use this for baking or just throw it away), and then it’s ready to enjoy!

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When your cream is shaken, all of the fat molecules from the cream begin to clump together. The more you shake, the more these fat molecules cling together, until a clump of butter is formed, leaving only the fat-free buttermilk behind.

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