can you make a paper clip float.

• clean dry paper clips
• tissue paper
• a bowl of water
• pencil with eraser

1. Fill the bowl with water
2. Try to make the paper clip float...not much luck, huh?
3. Tear a piece of tissue paper about half the size of a dollar bill
4. GENTLY drop the tissue flat onto the surface of the water
5. GENTLY place a dry paper clip flat onto the tissue (try not to touch the water or the tissue)
6. Use the eraser end of the pencil to carefully poke the tissue (not the paper clip) until the tissue sinks. With some luck, the tissue will sink and leave the paper clip floating!