Glass making experience

Today at 12:00 we went and did a glass making experience.

Fun Facts about Glass:

-Glass is made from melted sand. In Minecraft you make glass by putting sand blocks into a furnace. It then turns into glass. This is like what they do to actually make glass.

-Glass is actually a really slow moving liquid. Glass is called an amorphous, which means it is halfway between a solid and a liquid. Some other amorphous are: Plastic and Rubber.

In the glass making experience, there were three other people. Two of them were from Quebec, Canada and one was from Miami, Florida. The woman from the US made a pair of earrings, the lady from Quebec made a frog, which sadly broke later on, and the man from Quebec helped his wife.

Mama made two coasters because she was to scared to try the glass melting. She made one of a bee, and a colourful blob. Papa made a twisty thing-a-ma-jig, and I made two evil eyes, a cool stone and a coaster.

You have to really concentrate because the glass melts really quickly so you have to turn the glass stick around.

We had to wait a few hours for it to cool down.

While we were waiting we explored Venice a bit more. We found another mask shop. At the shop I bought a mask. It is a half-face mask, and is steampunk themed. It looks really cool.

We then went to a gelato place. It was the best gelato I've ever had! The flavour I chose was Lemon Biscuit.

We headed back to the glass makers and got our stuff.

We caught the water bus called Vaporetto home.

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