January Art

January 7-11, 2014

Both of these activities kind of ended up being busts, but that's okay! Art's supposed to be about the process when you're this age (or so I hear).

First, bubble prints:

Allegedly we were supposed to blow bubbles, lay a piece of white paper on top and the color would transfer to the paper. We got some very, very faint prints, but Seth was not impressed.

Next, chromatography: 

Had some mixed results here. Possibly we're just not doing this right, but we had a hard time getting the filters into a spot where they could absorb water but not get saturated. 

Also, the kids pretty much just wanted to drop a ton of food coloring on the filters, which pretty much defeated the purpose: 

A few of the finished products: 

Pretty, even if we didn't quite get the results we were hoping for!