Fun kids color wheel art and science project! Guest post by Everyday Art

Today I have a fun guest post for you from Everyday Art, a great crafty, yummy, DIY blog!  Enjoy, and make sure to go check out their blog for more creative ideas!

Every year about this time I start to really, REALLY crave color. Like clockwork, every January I start scheming about decorating with yellow or orange or something bright just to liven things up a bit. It's been a little better this year because my kitchen is south-facing and everything is white and light blue, so it feels nice and light and airy. 

That being said, I still think more color this time of year is great. So, the kids and I made this fun food-dye color wheel the other day. It was a great little science and art project. (What could be more fun that mixing art and science?!!?)

It was such fun, and I couldn't believe how patient the kids were (ages 3 and 5), just staring at the colored water move slowly up the paper towels and mixing together. We learned about color-combining  and the color wheel. We also learned a bit about osmosis, diffusion, and siphons.

Here's what you need to make this fun color wheel:

6 clear cups

6 paper towels

red food dye

blue food dye 

yellow food dye

Here's what you do to make the color wheel: 

1) Fill 3 cups with water and mix in red food dye into one, blue food dye into the second and yellow food dye into the third. 

2) place the cups in a circle as shown above with an empty cup in between each of the 3 you already made with the primary colors in them. 

3) fold the paper towels into about 1-inch strips and place each end into adjacent cups. (I snipped off a bit of each paper towel to make them shorter.)

4) Watch as the dyed water seeps up the paper towels and combines into the empty cups to make the secondary colors of orange, green and purple.

After all the colors had mixed, we took them out of the circle shape and made rainbows and such with them. Fun little science project with the girls. Certainly added more color to our day!

Let me know how it goes if you guys try it! Happy weekend!

Guest Post - from my new friends at Everyday Art

I've made some new crafty friends that I wanted to introduce to you from Everyday Art.  They have some great creative ideas that I think you will enjoy, and a variety of other ways to inspire you from meal planning and decorating to everything in between.

Hi Everyone! We're happy to be here sharing our blog with all of you. We're Emily and Jaime from Everyday Art.

We're two sister-in-laws (Jaime married Emily's handsome older brother) who believe that everyday can be filled with creative outlets, and we love to explore them. Here we are with some of our kids.

It's so fun to have a sister-in-law that you want to find excuses to talk to each other--it's great! We started a blog a few months ago because we used to live next to each other (literally a few doors down) and now that we are states away from one another we needed a way to bounce ideas of one another, show each other our projects, share recipes, etc.

Here's what we've been working on lately.

Alphabet Magnets

These little magnets are so easy to make and so fun for the kids. The possibilities are endless.

Cinnamon Pull Apart Bread

Delicious and a fun new look.

Redecorating our kids' rooms

Complete with tutorials for canopies, tree murals, reptile wall art, and toy storage solutions.

And the list goes on and on! We also love to crochet and knit and have recently started sharing a weekly menu every Sunday evening called "What's for Dinner?" (who doesn't want help planning meals?) We have all sorts of fun posts coming up--fun summer snacks, a hand bag tutorial, and rustic strawberry cake.

Thanks for allowing us to introduce ourselves! Stop on by and say hello. :)
Everyday Art

Lots of love,

Hope you enjoy their site as much as I do!  Make sure not to miss the "what's for dinner" section mentioned above to get your meals planned so you can spend the extra time creating or being with family.  If you find them from this post be sure to let them know so in your comments!