I like to do various semi-education activities with my kids, most often on Saturdays. We call these Science Saturdays activities. I am going to post about some of the successful activities and the less-than-great semi-educational activities. Recently, we made a windmill generator that powers a light bulb.

Given how much the kids liked the Green Science: Eco Lightbulb I thought this might also be a hit… but it was not.

Kid Approved? No

So what went wrong why wasn’t this as fun…

1. The light even with a crazy amount of wind isn’t bright
2. There isn’t really wind indoors and for lights they turn off all the lights in a room to play with something.
3. It barely will glow if you blow on it
4. Outside we have to get up really high above our fences to get enough wind to turn the windmill
5. It keeps blowing the bottle over and falling at about the same amount of wind that will turn the windmill

Basically, building it was fine but they couldn’t find a way to play with it to drive the light in a way that would stay fun. So they lost interest quickly and now we have a plastic windmill piece of trash to throw out at some point when I give up on it.