Corn Syrup Painting AKA Shiny Paint

Original instructions came from Kinderart. This is the second time we made this type of painting but the first time we did it was over a year ago and he had forgotten all about it.

I put some corn syrup into a cup and had him spread it on the paper with a big paintbrush. This stuff is sticky!

Then I put a few drops of yellow food coloring and a few drops of blue food coloring to start. I gave him two Q-tips and had him mix the colors in the corn syrup to make green. I told him he could use his fingers if he wanted, but he decided not to. Smart boy. Then I put some more colors around for him to mix into new colors. After a few days the painting dried really shiny.

Marshmallow Rainbow

This project came from No Time For Flashcards.

We took a bag a fruit flavored mini marshmallows (most were already hard and they would have been thrown out anyways!) He separated them into the four colored cups and then glued them onto a rainbow shape I drew (not very well might I add).

(Trying something new with the Picasa Collage Maker...)

Weekly Unplugged Project- Bottle

This week for The Weekly Unplugged Project the theme was Bottle.I finally got to make use of the little glass bottles I bought at the Thrift Store for $1.29!
After going through ideas for bottle I knew we already did an I Spy bottle with rice and an ocean in a bottle, so I wanted something different. He's into anything with water and we've been working on color mixing for awhile so this idea was born.

First, using a funnel (for the first time) he poured water into each glass bottle.

Then he followed the "recipe" cards to color the water. We used 6 bottles and made 6 colors!

Then of course, he wanted to mix them all up.

This always fits in with the rainbow theme and all the rainbow projects I have been wanting to do.