You can try to realize this small project this winter. There still is some snow, and winter is not yet over, guess there will be more snow this season.Well if you are reading “in the land down under” or in some other slow-less place, you are missing out great exercise.
We have “stolen” this idea from kindergarten. Its easy, fast, cheep and interesting.
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Necessary items
To realize this idea you will need
- Snow
- Empty PET bottles
- Make small hole into the cork of the bottle
- Gouache or water colors – old, new – the ones you will not regretting to dissolve
- Dissolve the colors into water
- Fill bottles with colorful water
- Go outside with kids to paint
Preparation
Need to collect oar find some empty plastic bottles, not really important what kind of, could be from drinks or empty shampoo bottles.
But take in consideration that transparent bottles looks better, and you will not need to guess what kind of color of water is in it.
For sure you have some empty bottles, if you have you already have half of necessary ingredients.
Second part is old or new gauche colors or water colors. This is good opportunity to get rid of some ld water colors that are already mixed with some other colors or just dry and hard as stone.
Dissolve, mix the color with colors in some bucket. Give this task to kids, they will love this action.
You can allow also to mix dissolved colors together to see how they mix and make new color, but be aware not to make all colors dark brown.
Fill the empty bottles with the colorful water, and pierce hole into the cork. Bigger the hole faster you will run out of ammunition, so try to make them small as possible.
When this done, new artists can go out and outside and use the snow as their canvas.
From experience, the amount of color water is never enough.
Result
