stART - Marble Painting....with Garbled Marbles...

One of the books we read this week was Care Bears The Great Big Pumpkin... they dressed up for Halloween... very cute...Our project this week was Marble Painting... pretty much the only tie in between the book and project... pumpkins are round...as are the marbles... also.. the carebears are very colorful...like the paint.. too much of a stretch? :-)

For a science project we did Garbled Marbles...
and I didn't want to waste them so we used them for painting...
I put some different colors of paint on everyone's paper...
and the girls picked 5 marbles from their experiment to use for the project...
Ryleigh picked 5 pink...

FYI... because these are not "real" marbles.. they tended to stick in the paint a bit more...

Rolling the Garbled Marbles in the paint....

Almost done...

2 of the finished pictures...

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Garbled Marbles....a science experiment....

This week K4 did an experiment with multi colored beads and water.... (similar to orbeez)... the girls had fun making their predictions and discussing their observations....

Ryleigh checking out the beads...they were all different colors and sizes...

I gave each girl their own beads...for her own experiment...

We added water to the tiny little beads...
and the girls made predictions as to what would happen....

The girls watching to see what happened....

We set them aside for a bit, while we worked on other projects...

After about 30 minutes of sitting in the water...
they had started to take on a squishy form...

The marbles...after they had "set" all night...
the girls were so excited to see what their projects turned into...
A close up of the marbles....
we then used them to paint with...
(check out this week's stART project)...

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