Milk Art

So... The other day we had a fun milk experiment! We did this in the Spring with Cream and Skim milk (it did work a little better) and we decided to do it again! What kid doesn't have fun playing in something that would otherwise not be allowed?!

The above ingredients include:

(2) 9x13 pans (or however many different forms of milk you decide to use)

Different forms of milk. I.E. Whole, Skim, Cream, Half & Half, 1%, 2%, Soy, Almond, etc.

Food Coloring

Toothpicks or Q-Tips

What you do:

1. Pour milk into the 9x13 pans (If I would have been better prepared, I would have had one pan per child so each one could make their very own design).



2. Drop a few drops, of each color, into the milk and have the kids design the milk. Stop after every couple of minutes to discuss why each one is so different.



Yes, our chickens and turkeys are definitely a part of our family! If we are outside, they are following closely behind like a dog :) We love it!



The many swirls of colored milk.



Then, take paper and lay that over the top of the design! This is what we came up with! We, then, compared the different designs with the milk they were dipped into. The center was the Whole milk and the two outer were the Skim. You can clearly see the better of the two! After cleaning up, I baked the paper in the microwave for 30 seconds to dry it!

This experiement had no major learning curve or Einstein form of brain work, but it was MAJOR fun and we did learn a few things! Here they are:

We learned that the thicker the milk, the better it holds the design

We learned that moving the toothpicks quickly through the milk, mixed the color rather than swirled it.

We learned the further you held the Food Coloring from the milk, the bigger the splatter of color it made.

We learned that carrying a 9x13 pan is easy and so is carrying a jug of milk, but carrying the 9x13 pan filled with milk is quite difficult...Hmmm?! That was a thinker!

We learned that depending on how you poured out the milk, made a difference in the rainbow of colors it left behind on the bottom of the pan.

Having fun without making it a major, stressful, organized agenda can be lots of fun and very memmorable.

I really enjoy these days!