Water and Oil Art

 We had fun exploring with water and oil during art time recently.

Using a medicine dropper we dropped water colors onto a dry sheet of watercolor paper. (I think the liquid watercolor is a must for this)

 The kids then dropped vegetable oil onto the paper.

(Place the paper on a cookie sheet or cake pan....it gets messy)

They enjoyed seeing the colors get "pushed around" by the oil. 

 We then dipped our paper into water before dropping on the colors...the colors spread and mixed, making for nice designs...

 After dropping the oil onto the wet paper we achieved very pretty mixing of the colors. 

The paper on the left was wet....on the right dry... These dried quicker than I thought they would. I thought the oil would slow down or prevent the paper from drying, but everything was dry in about 12 hours. 

Keeping kids busy....Baking Soda Art

 This is a great way to keep the kids busy, and you have everything you need in your cupboard.

Fizz art. 

Baking soda art.

 Simply

 pour baking soda onto a cookie tray with sides.

 Each of the kids used about 1/2 cup of white vinegar 

 mixed with several drops of food coloring.

 Using medicine droppers...drip the colored vinegar onto the baking soda.

 It fizzes and bubbles.  We used primary colors---so it was fun to watch the colors mix and make secondary colors.

 Each of the kids spend quite a long time "fizzing".

 This is a great idea for a rainy day....when you are done, used boiling water to wash the goop down the kitchen sink drain.  It helps keep odors away.  

I'm not sure what Gracie was thinking at this time....but I couldn't resist this photo!