Daily Challenge

Daily Challenge

Exploring Water in Art

Allow your child to explore the effect that water has on colour and paint. Try some of the following

Painting on wet paper. How is this different to dry paper?
Paint a pattern and leave it outside in the rain, what happens?
Mix paint (or food colouring) with washing up liquid and blow through a straw. Place a piece of paper over the bubbles and see the patterns it leaves on the paper. Check your child knows how to blow not suck, through the straw first!)
Watch what happens when you drop water onto coloured ink spots. Watch the colours move. What happens if you put 2 different colours close together? Felt tip pens usually work well for this, particularly on paper kitchen towel or toilet roll.