Separate Colors with Water
- 25 September, 2011 //
- Ages, Elementary, Experiment, Preschool, Teens, Toddler, Tween //
- Tags : children's programming track, color, Intervention, water
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Science of Art: Separating Colors
Materials:
paper towels, scissors, colored markers, water, jar
Procedure:
- With a pair of compasses draw some circles onto paper towels(or you can use a round cookie cutter). Cut them out with scissors.
- Using markers of different colors (black, purple, green, brown and orange are good colors to use) to draw a dot (about the size of a dime) of color in the middle of each circle.
- Place each circle of paper towel over the top of a clean dry jar.
- Add drops of water to the dot of color, use an eye dropper or a straw.
- Allow the color to spread and dry.
Result:
Rings of different colors will appear.
Explanation:
You will see that as the water spreads the colors will travel at different speeds and you will see that each color will create a ring. In printing and painting there are three primary colors – red, blue, and yellow. The enormous variety of colored dyes, paints, and inks are made by mixing different amounts of two or more of the primary colors.
