Chromatography Flowers

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Find out what colors of ink are used in your markers! Chromatography is used to break a solution into its component parts. In other words, the colors of markers are often made by combining several other colors together. To split these colors back apart, we need to use chromatography! In this post, we’ll show you how this amazing technique can be used to decorate our Color Diffusing Flowers with crazy effects!

Age: 5+

Duration: 10 minutes (+15 minute drying time)

Learning Objectives: Learn about the properties of colors through chromatography. Learn what chromatography is and how certain effects are produced using simple materials. Develop a basic understanding of the science behind color mixing. Explore fundamental scientific concepts, such as physical (compared to chemical) changes in mixtures.

You’ll Need:

R2440 Color Diffusing Paper Flowers

• Epsom Salts

• Plastic cup

• Warm water

• Markers (washable brands)

Optional:

• Ribbon

• Scissors

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Chromatography is a great method to introduce young kids to science… or even to try out for yourself! Basically, the materials used in chromatography help to split a mixture back into its original parts. The Epsom Salts in water attach onto certain molecules in the ink and push them apart. Therefore, it’s a great means of exploring color mixing and how colors are put together to make new ones.

We made a very similar experiment in one of our YouTube videos. Check it out at the link!

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERALet’s start with our materials! As you can see, we’ll need to select a type of flower, some markers and get our basic chromatography equipment ready. Because markers are made with various shades, you won’t have to worry about staying away from primary colors.

Note: I’ve included yellow just to add a colorful range to our chromatography flower, but as I’ve found, yellow is the only color that won’t separate as well as the others.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAThere are several different types of flowers to choose from. Select your favorite flower type, then count how many petals are on each flower. Choose a similar number of marker colors per petals on each flower, or double up on some colors. Start at the center of the flower and draw a triangle pointing inwards, with the base facing the petal side. Color in the triangle.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAMix one teaspoon of Epsom salts in one cup of warm water. This solution is what you will use to start the chromatography process! I used a wide, flatter cup to help with dipping the flower evenly into the solution.

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Pinch your flower at its center until you form a small handle underneath. This will scrunch the flower a little bit, but it’s important to make this “handle” prominent enough that it will reach the surface of the Epsom salt solution.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERANow dip the handle part at the center of the flower into the Epsom salt solution. See how the petals stick out from the center? The petals will hold the flower in place so it doesn’t collapse into the cup. You can even curl the petals outwards so that they hold the weight of the flower out from the center.

P7229867 - CopyLook at what happens over time! Not only does the whole flower get completely covered in ink, but the various colors separate into other colors!

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAHere, I’ve tried another type of flower. You can see the gradual changes that take place in a matter of minutes!

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAThe solution is creeping up!

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAYou can start to see a change in coloration here.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERANow, the ink has completely covered the surface of the flower and is separating the ink into individual lines of color. See the small patch of purple near the center of the flower? You can see some light pink being separated from the darker purple parts.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERATa-da! When the Color Diffusing Flower is fully saturated in water, remove from the cup and set on top of a dry container. Leave to dry for about 15 minutes.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAI’ve set out all the dry flowers here for viewing. Look at the separation in colors! You’ll see the most differences coming from colors such as teal, indigo, magenta and orange.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAHere’s a closeup of some separate colors that went into creating this soft blue color!

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERACheck out this indigo color! You can see tinges of light blue at the bottom, dark blue in the middle and magenta at the top!

A good exercise for kids is to guess which colors might have gone into making certain colors before they use their designs with chromatography.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERATo make your designs extra special, combine them into a pretty garland!

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAFold your flower in half, then cut two small slits near the center, at about 2″ apart.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAUnfold your flower. Next, weave one end of a length of ribbon through the first slot and back out through the second slot.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERARepeat for the remaining flower shapes!

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA…And hang them up! Combining science with art is lots of fun!

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Earth Day Dioramas!

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It’s been a while since we’ve posted an original craft project for the blog, but now we’re getting back into the swing of things! Earth Day is only a week away, so we’re getting a head start on our art projects. This post features multiple projects in one. Using the links below, you can skip to specific projects, or have a browse through our step-by-step photos and animations. The focus of this activity is to provide students with an understanding of various climates throughout the world and to celebrate the diversity of these climates through dioramas.

Age: 5+

Duration: 20-30 minutes

You’ll Need:

• R52094 Set the Scene! Diorama Box

• Card paper

• Tape

• Pencil

• Crayons

• Scissors

• Plasticine or sticky tack

• Construction paper

• Glue

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Use our R52094 Set the Scene! Diorama boxes to create real-world miniature models! The easy-fit design ensures that students spend more time creating their interiors than worrying about setting up the dioramas.

This particular diorama project focuses students on researching and creating scenes for their diorama boxes. Become informed about wildlife and habitats while designing some fun dioramas!

NOTE: The diorama scenes showcased below feature multiple animals from climates that may not share a similar region. These were put together to help diversify the step-by-step drawings. You can apply the same basic structure for the drawings to other types of animals, plants, etc.

The following tutorial is split up into 4 parts:

1. How to Put Together Your Diorama

2. Jungle Diorama

Draw Tiger

• Draw Monkey

• Draw Toucan

• Draw Jungle Plants

3. Tundra Diorama

• Draw Tundra Plants

• Draw Polar Bear

 4. Desert Diorama

• Draw Desert Plants

• Draw Camel

• Draw Snake

5. Tips for Classroom Dioramas

Click on any of the above links to jump to the section you want in this blog post. Otherwise, keep scrolling for a look at all these great ideas!

Introduction

In this portion of the tutorial, I’ll show you how to put together the diorama! Follow the step by step photographs and text to get you started on your diorama adventure!

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Each project requires the same basic set of materials. You can always add a bit more to your diorama projects and make them really stand out!

P4084160First, let’s start with assembling your diorama. The diorama already is attached on one side, so all you have to do is stand it up and fold in the sides. Push in the center “stage” piece along the scored lines. This will form a little window through which you can view the main scene of the diorama.

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The center “stage” has three sections divided by scorelines near the top of the card. The first is the main section which will form the stage portion of your diorama. The second part consists of a small band that will press up against the back of the diorama. The third part is the bottom tab that will fold underneath the stage. You can secure the third part with a bit of tape. Fold down along each score line to form these parts, then press the center “stage” into the window of the diorama.

P4084161Fold the sides of the diorama. Score lines along the edges will help you to orient where the folds are located. Repeat for the opposite side.

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Locate the tabs at the top and bottom of the diorama sides. Fold the tabs in.

P4084198To draw on the back wall of the diorama, insert your arm through the openings on the sides. Draw all your illustrations in pencil first before going over it in crayon or pencil crayon. This way, mistakes will be easier to erase and fix when they happen.

Jungle Diorama

RAWR! Hear that? It’s the sound of the tiger approaching in the wild jungle. This diorama features a colorful leafy background, several animal characters such as a tiger, monkey and toucan, and plants such as a palm tree, leaves and flowers. But first, we have to draw the jungle on the diorama!

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The animation above shows you how basic shapes were used to make the jungle landscape.

To start, draw a large star-like shape on one side of the diorama. Repeat for the opposite side.

To draw the leaves in the middle, draw two slightly curving lines. Each line represents a different leaf and will form the midrib. Draw V-like veins from the top of the curving line to near the bottom of the line. You can make two variations of the leaves. To make the leaf on the left, encircle the leaf veins in an oval shape. For the leaf on the right, draw additional lines beside the V-veins to make fern leaves.

Once you are happy with the design, darken all the lines in green. Color the insides of the leaves with a light green.

Take your pencil and fill in the gaps in between the leaf tendrils with a shaky line. This will be the waterfall clifftop. In the center of the clifftop, draw two lines curving downward. This will be the waterfall. Fill the outlines in either blue (for the water) or brown (for the clifftop). Color the remaining gaps in dark green.

P4084386Next, take a sheet of card paper and select a few colorful crayons. For the animals, I used varying shades of orange, brown, black and pink. The plants use a lot of green; use bright colors for the flowers.

Draw Tiger!

Animation-TigerWe’ll start with the tiger drawing. Draw a large oval on its side. Draw a circle, roughly about the same width, overlapping one end of the oval. This will form the head and the body.

Add three drooping cylinders at the bottom of the large oval for the legs (the tiger’s fourth leg is hidden behind!). From the side opposite the tiger’s head, draw a long tail.

Add little triangles to the circle for ears. Next, draw the face: two small dots for eyes above an upside-down triangle, which is the nose. Draw a line from the bottom of the triangle point and split it off to form the mouth.

Finally, draw small curving lines along the tiger’s body to make the stripes.

Animation-TIger2Outline your tiger in black crayon. Color in with orange. The pencil lines will faintly show through to help guide you to draw in the stripes with black crayon.

Draw Monkey!

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Start off with Monkey’s body. Draw a vertical oval to make its body. At the top of the oval, draw a small circle for the head. Add a small circle to each side of the head to form its ears. Next, draw two long rectangles starting halfway down the oval body. End the rectangle shortly after the bottom of the oval body. Add a tail with a swirl at the end!

Next, outline the entire perimeter of the monkey drawing with black crayon. Fill in the Monkey with brown crayon and add details such as a face, and the inner pink for the ears.

Draw Toucan!

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Toucan also features a vertical oval like Monkey’s body, and a small circle at the top for the head. Position the circle slightly off to the side. We want to show Toucan in flight! Draw the beak like an elongated U from the side of the head. Draw wings on the opposite side and add a triangle tail to the bottom of the oval body.

Outline the entire drawing with black crayon. Color the wings and tail entirely in black and the beak in orange. Leave a bit of white on the face and on the belly as you color in these parts.

Draw Jungle Plants!

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We will start off with a palm tree drawing. This can be very simply done with three types of shapes: a long rectangle, a star and several triangles. Draw a slightly curving rectangle to illustrate the tree trunk. A simple five-pointed star at the top depicts the palm tree leaves. Add a few more triangles in between the five points to thicken the leaves up.

Outline the tree trunk with a brown crayon and color in. Next, outline the leaves in green crayon and color in.

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Next up, we will learn how to draw the fern and large leaf for the jungle scenery. Both leaves start out with a simple curved line. Draw a series of V-shaped veins down along the curved line. To make the fern, close off the V-shaped veins with additional lines. The big leaf just needs an oval drawn around it.

Outline and color in everything with green crayon.

Note: The flowers are relatively easy to do. Draw a small circle to make the center of the flower and illustrate the petals around it. Outline and color in with crayon. Make as many flowers as you’d like!

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Next up, cut out all the shapes!

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Cut out the animal shapes.

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Leave a bit of a border around each figure so that the artwork won’t smudge when you are adjusting it in your diorama.

Using these basic drawing tips, you can make virtually any figure you’d like for your diorama scene. As you can see, many of the drawings require simple shapes like circles, triangles or rectangles. Once you’ve outlined everything, simply fill in the drawing with a full color.

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Once you have all your shapes cut out, get ready to stand them up! You will need Plasticine or a bit of Sticky Tack.

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Roll up a small ball of Plasticine.

P4094605Press the Plasticine onto a flat sheet of paper, enough so it has a flat underside. Pick up one of your figures and insert it into the top of the Plasticine, just enough so it stands.

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Note: Use the color of Plasticine that best matches your diorama scene. I used blue to show how to stand the figures up. You can even attach figures onto other figures, like the toucan perching on the palm tree. Just use Plasticine to hold the figures in place.

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Before you place the figures inside the diorama, we have to finish putting the diorama together. You will need to find a sheet of construction paper that can fit the width and length of the diorama floor. Or, cut one to size!

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I placed the diorama on top of the construction paper and aligned the back to match. Trace along the front with a pencil.

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Cut along the line.

P4094627Glue the construction paper down onto the diorama floor. I used green for the jungle floor as I feel that it matches best with the scenery.

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Next, you’ll want to secure the sides. With all the tabs pre-folded, it should be easy to close the side flaps.

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Repeat for both sides. Tape down the edges to hold the flaps in place once they are closed.

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Once all the sides are sealed up, place in your characters! Position them any way you like within the diorama.

Tundra Diorama

The tundra experiences the coldest weather and the longest days, but the landscape is full of thrilling details!

2014-04-09-Animation-4To start off, we’ll illustrate the background for the tundra diorama. First, draw puffy clouds along the top half of the diorama background. Clouds look a lot like ice cream scoops with a few more curves at the bottom. Use the bottom half of the diorama background to draw the mountains. Draw the mountains with large, uneven M-shaped lines that continue across the page. Let the lines go as high or as low as you wish. Once these are finished, color in around the clouds with light blue. Fill in the mountains with grey. Press on the grey crayon as you get closer to the bottoms of the mountain drawings. This will make various areas on the mountains look darker to give a bit of dimension. You can also add a few strokes around the cloud formation.

P4084259Now to design the details!

Draw Tundra Plants!

Animation-RockFirst, let’s illustrate some tundra rocks. Make two uneven horizontal ovals. Outline them in black. Use gray crayon to draw small lines about halfway up the rock. This gives the appearance that the light is shining down on the rock, creating a shadow. Use a bit of green crayon to illustrate tuffs of small plants.

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Next, draw a tree! Draw a straight line with pencil. At the top of the line, draw a V shape so that the line intersects in the middle of the V. Make the next V shape bigger below the first. Repeat a third time. Outline everything in black crayon then add small branch details.

Draw Polar Bear!

P4084280First you’ll need to draw a light outline in pencil. This will help later when you are darkening everything in pencil. Draw a medium-sized horizontal oval. This will represent the polar bear’s body.

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Next, draw a small circle overlapping the polar bear’s body on one side. This will form the polar bear’s head.

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Add two small circles on either side of the head. Draw a rectangle just underneath the head. Make another rectangle right beside it. Finally, draw the third rectangle to align with the back of the oval body. Add a face. Outline everything in black crayon. You can erase the inside lines before you do this.

P4094464Cut out all the figures. Leave a bit of a border around the outside lines. This will make it easier to handle the card figures without smudging the drawing.

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Now we can stand up our characters using a bit of Plasticine or Sticky Tack. Here, I am using Plasticine because I can shape it easier than Sticky Tack.

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Roll a small amount of Plasticine into a ball.

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Press the Plasticine ball flat onto a sheet of paper. Insert the edge of a figure into the Plasticine ball. Press it only about halfway in.

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Repeat the same for all the figures. Use a larger amount of Plasticine to make the base for larger figures like the tree.

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Next, we have to finish putting together the diorama.

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With the tabs pre-folded, you can fold the side flaps in. Tape the edges of the flaps to hold them in place.

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To make the floor for the diorama, you will need a sheet of construction paper roughly the same width and length. If the sheet is too big, you can cut it down to size.

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Align the back edge of the diorama with an edge of the construction paper sheet. Trace the front edge of the diorama onto the protruding strip of paper.

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Paste the sheet of construction paper down onto the floor of the diorama.

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Place all the figures inside the diorama. Arrange them anyway you like!

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Use the diorama for storytime! Create your own story using the characters in your diorama. Without being confined to one area, the characters can switch positions thanks to the Plasticine base.

Desert Diorama

Sunny and blazing hot during the day, but cool at night, the desert is full of surprises! This diorama incorporates different types of plants and animals together–we’ll learn how to draw a camel, a snake, tumbleweed, trees and more!

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To draw the desert background, we must first choose our colors. There are plenty of warm colors to go around, such as red, yellow and orange. Draw a squiggly line across the top half of the diorama background in one of these three colors. Below the first squiggly line, I drew two more drawing closer to the bottom of the background. These look a bit like giant S’s. Next, I filled in some curves of the S with red to give a bit of depth, or the appearance of dunes. Color the rest of the desert in a bright orange or deep yellow color.

To make the sky pop out, I colored in the remaining top part of the background with a bright blue.

Draw Desert Plants!

Animation-Desert-RockIllustrate a small rumply rock. Draw a straight line sticking up out of the top of the rock. This will form the trunk of the tree. Draw a V shape at the top with the straight line intersecting the V through the middle. Repeat two more times down the length of the straight line. Once you are happy with the overall appearance, outline everything in black crayon. Color the rock in brown or grey. Add in small branch details with the black crayon.

Animation-TumbleweedTo make the tumbleweed, draw a wide V shape. Draw a straight line up through the middle of the V. Draw little curved lines to make the brush with brown or grey crayon. Use the three straight lines as a guide.

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Draw the cactus. First make a long cylinder shape with a curve at the top. Draw a curved stem segment sticking out from the side of the main cactus shape. Outline everything in black and color in with green crayon.

Draw Camel!

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The camel consists of 3 basic oval shapes and a few rectangles. To start, we need to make the body. Draw a horizontal oval. Next, draw a small overlapping circle at the top-center of the oval. This will form the camel’s body and hump. You can add another circle if you wish.

Move your hand a little ways to the left from the camel body. Draw a small thin oval. This is going to be the camel’s head. Connect the head to the body with a long thin rectangle.

Next, draw four thin long rectangles starting from the bottom of the oval body.

Outline everything in a dark brown. Color the inside of the camel with a sandy brown color.

Draw Snake! 

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The snake is one of the easiest animals to draw. It only requires that you know how to write the letter S! Draw a big S. The top of the S will form the snake’s tail. Add a small circle to the bottom to make the snake’s head. Close up the S-shaped body by following the line back up to the top point. Finish at a point to make the tail. Outline everything in black and color in with red.

P4094466Cut out all of your desert figures. Leave a bit of a border around the edges so that you don’t smudge the artwork when handling it. Get a small amount of Plasticine or Sticky Tack. I used Plasticine here. Roll a small chunk of Plasticine into a ball and stick it onto a flat sheet of paper so that it forms a base for your figures. Gently take one of your figures and insert it about halfway down into the ball.

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Ready for action!

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Before we can put the characters into the diorama box, we first need to finish up its design. Create a floor base for the diorama box using a sheet of construction paper. I used a color that matched the scenery of the diorama background. If the sheet needs to be cut smaller, you will need to measure the space of the diorama floor.

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Here’s a quick tip on how to do this. Align one edge of the construction sheet with the back edge of the diorama box. Trace a line along the front edge of the diorama box.

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This will provide you with a line you can cut across. Discard the small strip of excess paper.

P4094492Glue the sheet of construction paper to the floor of the diorama box.

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Fold down the sides of the diorama box and seal up the edges with tape.

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Now you are ready to place your characters inside!

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All ready for display!

Tips for the Classroom:

• Diorama boxes are a great way to showcase your students’ knowledge of different environments in the world. In order to help your students conceptualize their dioramas, it’s a good idea to draw up a list of important elements that will go into the design. One way to structure this is by highlighting main elements, such as: background, plants and animals. Note: Don’t go too big or you might not fit everything in!

• Use simple ovals and rectangles to draw all of your animal characters. The best way for students to learn is to draw from reference pictures. A good exercise to try is to use a reference photo, lay a sheet of tracing paper over top, and use basic circles, ovals and rectangles to fill in the outline of the animal drawing. This will help students understand how to draw various parts that make up a whole figure.

• Plasticine or Sticky Tack work as great bases for your animal characters. The best part about using a base is that you can rearrange your characters within the diorama at any time. Although the Plasticine will dry out, it will form a permanent base that can be used to relocate the characters within the diorama.

• If you are looking to incorporate more materials other than card paper, use Plasticine to form the plants and animals. Use the same principles for drawing animals to make your Plasticine characters. Roll small amounts of Plasticine into basic spheres, egg-shapes, rectangular prisms or cylinders. Make them larger or smaller depending on the type of animal you are making.

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Life on Seaside Farms uses our True To Life Human X-Rays!

As part of their “Fall Fun” special post, the Life on Seaside Farms II blog posted a photo of their children playing with our R5911 True To Life Human X-Rays! This science product is a great way to introduce younger grades to basic properties of the human body.

Learn about bone arrangements and how the skeleton structures organs and other important tissues! In addition, learn how the skeleton is important for giving shape to our bodies.

The post was made on October 30, 2011 and can be found here at “Fall Fun“!

The blog post features other great ideas for incorporating Halloween thrills into your daily learning schedule! From decorating the front porch with spooky ghost ornaments to raking fall leaves and learning about the human body through vivid x-rays, this post has a great round up of ideas.

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Illuminate the details in the R5911 True To Life Human X-Rays by placing the x-rays up against a light source, such as a window or a light table!

Read our guide here for more ideas on activities to do with the True to Life Human X-Rays!

Thanks to Seaside Farms for their post!

Images and original post © Life on Seaside Farms Part II.

This post was not sponsored for a review. At LittleFingersBigArt, our mission is to present to our readers and viewers the newest and most creative craft ideas that fans of Roylco have made on their own. Our goal is to allow you and other educators and parents to reuse our products in fun ways so that children always get the best educational experience from them!

We’d love to see more ideas like this one! If you’ve got a brilliant craft idea or have made a version of one of our crafts that you would like to share with us, send an email to subscriber@roylco.ca with photos, descriptions or a link to your work. We will create a feature post and link back to you with full credit. We’d love to hear from you!

 

Craft Spotlight: Exercise Animals!

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Exercise Animals get children up and moving! First decorate the animals with paint, and color in the printed paper with crayons or markers. Assemble the animals in three easy steps. Watch a video below to see how it’s done, then check out our Art Campers taking off in an animal stampede!

Try out various fun activities with the R62030 Exercise Animals. Use our guide and the ideas provided to help get your students’ bodies moving and hearts pumping!

R62030 Exercise Animals are a great way to segue between different educational subjects, such as science, art AND physical education!

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The Exercise Animals feature 10 different animal designs. Choose from a cheetah, horse, lion, kangaroo, bunny, eagle, monkey, elephant, bear and giraffe! Talk about the different types of animals as students paint in the details of their Exercise Animals.

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Our campers loved picking out their favorite animals! Here, one of our campers finds herself a rare one–a purple horse!

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Once students have finished painting their animals, color in the printed paper sheets. The sheets come with two small tubes that can each be pasted onto either end of the sheet as reinforcements. Roll up the sheet with the tubes inside and secure with tape. Finally, join either end of the barber pole with the tab at the bottom of the Exercise Animal head.

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Go on an animal stampede outside your school building!

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Let us know how your students’ animals turned out by sending photos to subscriber@roylco.ca! We’d love to see your classroom artwork!

Julie from the Land of Lost Luggage uses our Color Diffusing Sealife!

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Julie shared a wonderful art lesson with her readers about dispersion and diffusion… using our R2446 Color Diffusing Sealife! Check out her post for a colorful display of her daughter’s artwork!

This post is entitled “Teach Art to Your Children V 1.4” and was published on February 18, 2011.

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Julie and her daughter used washable markers to color the Sealife images. They placed the Color Diffusing shapes onto paper towel to keep the color from seeping through during their next step.

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After coloring, they placed baby wipes onto the shapes and misted them with water. Lifting up the wipes revealed a beautiful assortment of colors and patterns on the Sealife shapes.

Check out Julie’s series on teaching children art at her website, Land of Lost Luggage.

Thanks to Julie for this creative post!

Images and original post © The Land of Lost Luggage.

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This post was not sponsored for a review. At LittleFingersBigArt, our mission is to present to our readers and viewers the newest and most creative craft ideas that fans of Roylco have made on their own. Our goal is to allow you and other educators and parents to reuse our products in fun ways so that children always get the best educational experience from them!

We’d love to see more ideas like this one! If you’ve got a brilliant craft idea or have made a version of one of our crafts that you would like to share with us, send an email to subscriber@roylco.ca with photos, descriptions or a link to your work. We will create a feature post and link back to you with full credit. We’d love to hear from you!