Color Science

We've been exploring the science of color! When our thermometer dipped below zero, we tried out an idea from some friends to make colored ice globes.

Of course, I don't have any pictures of the finished products! But they were very cool. We had added food coloring to the water inside the balloons and the colored water formed an inner sphere. So we had colored spheres encased in clear spheres. We unwrapped one of them a little too early, it sprung a leak, and all the colored water flowed out leaving behind just an empty sphere. That was pretty cool. But then the temperature rose and that was the end of that.

 Next we moved onto mixing colors. We did this with crayons to create a color wheel, and paint to make some pictures, and then we did it with colored water. Kids and water - what more do I need to say?!

Julia kept track of the colors she was making

Benjamin, the chemist

Both Julia and Benjamin played happily for a quite while creating different colors and combinations. And then somehow, they ended up turning it into an olive oil, lime juice, and lemon juice factory!  They're very entrepreneurial these days! 

Our final activity, so far, was creating spectroscopes so we could see the colors in different lights. It worked best in the bright sunshine!