Vomit!

[sharry]

Wanted to 'make' vomit for a projet on digestion at school any recipies anyone?
I've heard of digestive buscuits chopped carrot milk, egg white and vinigar! Have I missed anything?

[CliffRichardSucksEggsinHell]

Cool! Can I come and watch? How old are the kids? Some of them might produce real life samples when they see yours!

[Lonelymum]

Oh God I fel sick just reading this! Make sure you haven't got any emetophobes in your class before you start please!

Lonelymum (life long emetophobe)

[carla]

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[colditz]

Diced cooked carrots, milk, lemon juice adn digestive biscuit crumbled in.

[CliffRichardSucksEggsinHell]

Mine usually has a few yellow bits too.

[dinosaur]

oh my god is this what they make children do at school now?? I can't imagine anything worse! My nightmare at school was that another child would be sick, because there was no way I could stop myself joining in!

I'm shocked!

[Lonelymum]

I wouldn't be sick too, but if I had to attend that lesson, I would be out the door pronto, wild horses wouldn't keep me there. Are you sure this is necessary?

[sharry]

As we are researching the digestive system, I thought that for children would would want too it would be a fun hands on activity? Introducing concepts as bile, projection the affects of acid (vinegar) partially digested food i.e really chopped up small pieces of carrot. Obviously I wouldn't make it a compulsory activity! Perhaps just over enthusiastic!

What would you think if you child came home and said they had 'made sick'?

[JingEllBells]

I'm with Lonelymum on this one.

Shudder!

(Bet the kids love it though)

[Lonelymum]

If my children came home and said they had "made sick" I would be absolutely disgusted and would tell them pretty sharpish to shut up, but that is just me. I am sure others would see the educational value of it.

[CliffRichardSucksEggsinHell]

I'd think, "cool!"

[sharry]

Thanks definitely will do this then! I think it will be a really fun/disgusting but wasn't sure if parents would embrace this or perceive this as inappropriate!

[Lonelymum]

Could you not say to the children we are going to see what happens to food in the stomach and show how it gets churned up, rather than say we are going to make vomit.

Oh well, if someone feels like me, at least I won't be there to share their grief...

[joanna4]

Packet made vegeatble soup is what is used in films etc if that is any good.

[Blandmum]

If you are going to do it, the best 'base' is a tin of vegetable soup!

there is considerable educational benefir in this, particularly for the kinaethetic learners.....it also 'switches on' a (lot* of switched off boys.

Vinegar to stand in for the acid. Water for the saliva. Churn it up....mechanical break down.

If you want to represent the break down further in the digestive tract you can use some dilute washing up liquid to 'stand in' for bile salts.....caution the kids that bile doesn't foam but it does help to break up fat globules, just like washing up liquid does. Bile is also bright yellow and tastes foul....kids may well tell you that they have seen it if they have vomited a lot.

I think this a great lesson idea

[julienetmum]

I am emetophobic (only discovered recently it was a recognised phobia with a name) and this would have been my worst nightmare at school.

Like dinosaur I was always terrified that another child would be sick within my sight or hearing. I can't even watch Casualty without my finger on the remote control just in case.

Urghhh, I can't think about this any longer.