You too can explore the bubbles on the seaweed and see if they will pop and what it feels like.

We had discovered that along the seaweed there were bumps that looked like balloons and that it was fun to pop them…

Some squirted water, some wouldn’t pop as they were too hard. We experimented with popping dry and wet seaweed. We described what we saw and felt.

The little balloons that we popped are the reproductive part of the seaweed. They are ready to burst out into the ocean in the hope of making more baby seaweed. It also helps them to float up we think.