Today, we got out mom’s old paper marbling set to have an art and cooking day. First we put some newspaper on the table so it didn’t get dirty. Secondly we read the instructions and got some paper to do the marbling on. The way you do it, is taking a plastic tray or bowl, filling it with 2cm of cold water and then putting a few drops of marbling ink on top. The ink is oily and spreads out and gets bigger on top of the water because oil is less dense than water and oil and water are immiscible (do not mix). It is tricky to put on the right amount of oil and to know when to stop squirting with your pipette. Also, it is hard to break up the dots of oil. At the end we found that mixing quite a lot with a knife was good and I felt really proud of the last ones I made with the purple ink. It was really fun and I would love to do it again sometime, possibly when I am grown up and have my own kids-ha ha! (By Tig)
After mom had tidied came snack time:
Some reading and some Milo playing at snack
Next we made amazing concoctions:
There was mixing, separating, layers, colours, oil, density, solid, liquids, gases, reactions, sharing, cooperation, observation, pouring, counting, acids, carbonates, reactions, immiscible, relationships, air, bubbles, pockets of air-lots and lots of thinking, figuring out, expanding ideas and adapting thinking-all with messy fun!
Finally we made some sweets. Mom made a dough made of icing sugar and egg white. We split the dough in to 4 bowls and put a different flavouring in each bowl. We used lemon, strawberry, peppermint and orange. After we stirred the flavouring we tasted the sugar to ,make sure the flavour was right. Next we mixed the colouring in and rolled the dough into sausages. B and Tig chopped up the sausages and rolled the souses in to balls. They squashed the balls and put them on plates in the fridge to go cold. When they were cold we melted some choc and dipped half of them in the choc. finally we put the sweets back in the fridge. i tasted one but………………………………….mom wont let me eat ‘em all doh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Ot)
Then I made brownies and carrot cake and tacos for tea, we swept, mopped, tidied and had baths-we waited fro Dad to sit and eat so tea was later at about 7 ish. Tacos were a hit and everyone enjoyed them!
A great, busy, messy, fun day!
