More Paper Towel Art - Experimenting with Color.

My hubby came up with this little artsy experiment

(I think he did it as a kid back in the stone age.)

He showed the girls how you can

separate the mixed colors

from a colored marker.

First, collect some markers in secondary colors:

Orange, Green, Purple

(not permanent - we tried, they don't work)

Note: Color Mixing 101

Secondary Colors = Orange, Green, and Purple

They are made by combining 2 Primary Colors

= Red + Yellow, Blue + Yellow, Blue + Red

Draw a small circle (diameter of a penny)

on your paper towel,

then drop a bit of clean water in the center

Watch it "star burst"

the colors will separate as it spreads.

(Do you see the purple that leached out of the blue?)

Ask your kid why they think there would be a color added to a

"primary" colored marker?

Later we tried other colors too like

Brown, Black, Pink, Blue, etc...

The girls loved it.