Caution: Melting Paint

Whenever we have a few spare minutes, the girls ask, "Please, can we just do a little bit of homeschool?"  Sometimes, they just think of little projects to do.

But my favorite way that this plays out is when Zoe decides to be the teacher.  Here, she is showing Lucy 3 sequence cards out of order and saying, "Is THIS right?  Nooooooo.  Is THIS right?  Nooooooo."  While Lucy tries to finish looking at her book.

We had only one friend coming over for Fun Friday, so last night, we decided to prepare a fun messy activity.  We carefully poured some paint into ice cube trays, put them in the freezer, and made predictions about what we would find in the morning.

Olivia came to help us finish up our water unit.  First, we did some floating and sinking investigations.  The girls went all around the house to find things they wanted to test.  Then, with Zoe as our record keeper, we took turns predicting, testing once, and then testing again.  We were surprised at some of the things that floated (a big heavy block) and sank (a little puff ball).  We figured out that most things made of wood floated and talked about logs floating down the river.

Then we just had some fun water exploration time.  

Then, it was time to pull out the paint!  I added sticks as handles and we discovered the paint had frozen!  We predicted what would happen if we left them out of the freezer.  We put some ice cubes on a plate to see which melted faster, the paint or the ice (the ice won).

At first, they worked like crayons.

But then, they started to melt...

...and things got really fun!

Thanks for coming, Olivia!