Not only does this activity finish with a beautiful product it has the child practicing several skills in the process, spooning, grinding, pouring and learning about colour mixing. The finished bottle can also make great gifts for grandparents.
What you will need:
*small glass bottle with a lid
*funnel
*salt
*sidewalk chalk (small chalk pieces will break too easily)
*spoon
*jug
Have all the equipment set out on a tray, working on a tray will help with clean up. First measure 2 spoons of salt into the jug – you can adjust the amount to suit.Take the chalk and grind it into the salt, the salt will change colour. Using the funnel, pour the salt into the glass bottle, then repeat with another colour of chalk, keep going until the bottle is full. You can suggest to the child that try mixing two colours to see what happens.
One tip when colour mixing – this or other mediums, suggest that the child starts off with the weaker colour, so in this case he coloured the salt yellow first then added the blue (you only need a bit of blue to make it turn green).
Then when you have finished you will have a pretty bottle like the one pictured.
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This post was submitted by jo ebisujima.