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We ran out of yellow paint recently and Annie was devastated as she had been painting a Pikachu paper mache and needed lots of yellow.
I was inspired to mix up a bit of flour and water with our yellow food colouring and ta-da yellow paint 🙂 Annie was very impressed at my skills.
This is great. We did a similar one to the milk marbling but used a cornflour solution then took prints. The idea was from http://the-joy-of-my-life-and-other-things.blogspot.com/. My daughter loves painting with white or black as one of her colours.
PS I was thinking of you last week. We just joined our states science museum and had our first visit. I was thinking now how would Deb ask questions to get my daughter thinking.
I’m definitely going to try this, I have some cornflour.
And thank you! Scitech is so much fun 😀
Fantastic! We did marbling on paper towels with food dye in water last week – a good old Playschool trick. There are some brilliant ideas here, I will have to give some a try with my kids.
Oh that reminds me… must hunt down some cellophane for a bit of a play, always loads of fun. Painting in our house almost always turns into colour mixing! So many great ideas.. thanks for sharing
I have never thought to dye milk before, great idea. Cellophane is so great for experimenting with colour isn’t it.
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Ohh love this. Will certainly have to try the marble cake idea as my girls love cooking and working with colour!
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My son has been experimenting with colour quite often lately, too. It’s so exciting for them, isn’t it?
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Great ideas. I hadn’t seen the food dye and milk idea either. Lots of inspiration here.
What beautiful butterflies!
My Lilly would love to make some of those, thanks for the idea.
My favorite place to expose children to different colors is outside. Spring provides more colors then we can even begin to talk about. The children go and collect leaves and then we bring them back to the classroom and discuss that all the leaves are green but different shades of green. You can really see their wheels turning.
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I love that as a way of bringing different shades into it. And then you can look at what is green and what is yellow, where it really comes down to opinion.
I love playing with colours. Have you tried adding a drop of detergent to the milk? The detergent reacts with the fat in the milk (have to use full fat milk) and swirls the milk all by itself and mixes the colours while you watch. It’s amazing.
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I definitely need to try that! It sounds like great fun, and an excuse to buy some more colourings. I think making our own dyes will be the next step, the girls loved using petals at Easter.
The milk is something that I did in high school and loved it!
I love using a variety of colours and setting a task to make a colour – we did this for our Maths, Science and Technology unit and had to make green. Did you know that you can use almost any colour to make green? And that as long as you generally have the base colour there you are able to change the tone by adding a number of different colours?
Also, I love to read the book – Smidge & Brown Bear, Brown Bear for colour awareness. Smidge actually changes colours when he eats lollies so it is a combination of the lollies that make him change 😉
There are so many other ideas that I haven’t touched on, and I am sure that there are millions of others out there too!
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Your milk colour mixing reminds me of my ‘Dorothy the Dinosaur Rosie Tea’ trick where I add a few drops of pink colouring to Immy’s milk to make it more fun 🙂
What great ideas. I too must seek out some cellophane for colour mixing fun.
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Have you tried adding a drop of dishwashing detergent to the milk/food colouring experiment? The detergent causes a reaction with the fats in the milk and cause it so start swirling around – very cool! 🙂
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