Color Swirls in Water 2

UPSIDE DOWN FIREWORKS 

I got so excited when I saw this idea on Homeschool Den, especially because that's exactly what we have been doing that past few days....play with food coloring. (See post on Color Swirls in Water and Color Wheel Activity 1) 

You can their explanation of the experiment here.

You need:

• a glass or vase full of water
• few drops of food coloring
• oil in another bowl (the quantity of oil should be enough to make a cm thick layer for it to work well)
• a toothpick to break down the drops of food coloring in the oil
• a spoon to fully scrape off the oil and food coloring droplets 

And see how ours looked like !

In comparison to our previous color swirls activity, the tiny droplets came down slower than they came down through the shaving cream. The effect was simply gorgeous ! Subhanallah !

My kids pointed out "Mama look at the top too, it looks so cool from the top. Take a picture, take a picture"

We want to do this again with a light behind to see how it glows !

What do you think ?

Colors Lapbook

ALLAH MADE COLORS

This post is about our very first lapbook :) almost 4 years ago. It was a very basic and simple lapbook as at that time I was still learning how to do them. I made a simple fold lapbook with a single manila folder. To make it attractive I made Lil Muallim # 2 color the pallet and covered the inside with marbled construction paper.

For flaps I took 4 strips of same colors each a bit longer than the other. On the cover I drew a brush stroke of color which Lil Muallaim # 2 colored himself. .

The next strip had the spelling of the color which he traced with glitter pen. 

Next I asked him his favorite thing that was that color eg his favorite yellow thing. 

 Finally on the last strip he stuck something that Allah made of that color

We did the same for each color and this personalizing feature really clicked with Lil Muallim # 2 Alhumdolillah ! He loved making it,  looking through it again and again and showing it to others Mashallah. 

  This simple format lapbook really took my fear away from the concept of lapbooking. The sense of ownership children get over it really takes their learning up quite a few notches Mashallah.

 Over the years we have made quite a few lapbooks which the kids have enjoyed. Others are still incomplete but are waiting to be finished. Qadrallah :) I hope to post about all of them one day Beidhnillah.

Color Swirls in Water

Is it Raining Rainbows ?

Lil Muallimah wants to call it pretty colors of Rainbows :)

I saw this one at A bit of this a bit of that. I just had to do this one and I did the first thing in the morning after breakfast.

We've actually done it twice already and want to experiment with it more.

The first time we did we mixed the food coloring with water and the next with food coloring directly from the bottle. We had a lot aaaiing and oooing and excitement with this one.

This was fun but the colors weren't as bright soooo.....

Don't forget to peak at the shaving cream from the bottom looks spectacular !

UPDATE: We did another cool color swirl activity ....see

Color Swirl in Water 2

Color Wheel Activity Part 1

COLOR WHEEL THE AWESOME WAY

Another COOL Montessori inspired activity. I found this activity with printable on Mama Jenn. Once you have the print outs, put them inside a protective sheet and let the fun begin. The best part is the even the lil ones can do it all by themselves.....:)

You Need:
Color Wheel printable in protective sheet
Food coloring
dropper
water
tooth picks for mixing (one for each color)
Sheet of paper towel

We did this activity a little differently from as suggested in Mama Jenn,because we had only one dropper and didn't to go through rinsing the dropper at every step. 

Lil Mualliamh did the Primary and Secondary Color sheet, while Lil Muallim #2 did the tertiary colors one. We actually did this activity twice improving upon our method.

IMPORTANT:

I would recommend doing it in the day time so kids can enjoy the colors better.

Add 2-3 drops of water in each color circle.

Add 5 drops of water in the ones with blue and red to get clear difference 

Here's how we went about it ....:):):)

Leave it a while on the sheet and the colors spread and blend to look like this...

Lil Muallimah exclaimed "How does Allah do that ?"

 The colors look the best when the paper towel dries out.......

SUBHANALLAH

SO MUCH FUN!!!!!

Go grab your printable from Mama Jenn

Lil Muallim was doing his Math during this time and was feeling quite left out from this FUN ........

He later got to do it too and so did Lil Muallim # 2 AGAIN!!!!

and this time we left the paper towel on the sheet till it dried and the result was another WOW !!! But EVEN A BIGGER WOW!!!

Check it out.

The colors were not only much clearer they just got soaaed in till they all  met in the middle making a complete circle with fractions of colors!!!!!

Sounds like a math activity coming up....

I will be actually posting about an advanced Color Wheel Activity with Lil Muallim # 1. So stay tuned for Color Wheel Activity Part 2 

I have linked up this post on Living Montessori Now's