water color

Yes! You may make tons of pretty water color leaves!

I stopped by Lakeshore a few days ago to get some water color paper and found water color paper leaves too!! Graham and Parker LOVED this activity. They wanted to make LOTS of water color paper leaves! They really loved the water color paper too. This is the first time we have tried water color paper. It is definitely worth trying, so fun!!! They love watching the colors blend and spread, especiall once you put the water color paper on a light table. We used our DIY light box for this, because of using liquid water colors. We have no way to protect the light panel's from liquid. I am not handy enough yet to make a protective cover.

Color & Light

Graham and Parker have had a lot of fun lately with exploring color and light. We have a few toys  that the sunlight reflects color through the toys on the floor in the afternoon bewteen 2-4 pm!  too cool! I realized that I used to have an amazon store and I left it just sit dormant for about 8 years.  So I re-did the store and added all of the toys we have had or have now that I feel are the best toys for development and educational purposes.  

http://astore.amazon.com/gptwinsmom-20

a few of our light table shapes

crystal cubes

sunlight reflecting color through the crystal cubes on to the floor

sunlight on the marble run

sunlight reflecting color through the marble run on to the floor

wedgits

another fun way to build with wedgits

spraying liquid watercolors onto baking soda and vinegar

after adding vinegar!

pretty and bubbly!

shaving cream and liquid watercolors

several colors of water beads

painting up the playhouse with liquid watercolor

painting liquid watercolor on poster boards

A version of Teacher Tom's tall painting with liquid watercolors

dumping water beads into the liquid watercolors, baking soda, and vinegar mixture

pouring the mixture into the big vinegar bottle

filled with water beads!

oops this one is upside down but its the slide with liquid watercolors