Oil/Water and Fairy Looms

Today we did some simple experiments to check out the properties of water and surface tension –

1. Floating a piece of paper with a needle on top – when the paper sinks, the needle still floats…

2. Oil on water, food colouring through the oil layer into the water….

The boys pronounced it “Cool!” 😀

We went out on a mini nature walk this morning to collect leaves/feathers/bark etc, for fairy looms – I saw them on a blog that I’ve been checking out….(It’s on the March 14th entry – I’m thinking of trying out the geode eggs as well 😀 ) –

magicalchildhood.wordpress.com/

Here are the fairy looms we came up with – Littlest boy had trouble figuring out the weaving at first, but they both ended up with a lovely end product….

Showing off the creations…

Littlest boy’s – close up

Biggest boy’s – close up

…and this is mine 😀

We decided to display them so we could all enjoy them 😀

I thought this photo looked ethereal….

…and we’ve been keeping an eye on the tadpoles… they’re still growing… they’re very lively (and hungry) now. You can see where their legs will sprout….

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On October 25, 2011 at 10:54 pm Fairy Looms and Purple Things « 1000fieldsofroses's Weblog said:

[…] wrote a while ago about the fairy looms we made (in this post.) They’ve been sitting in a vase on my old Singer sewing machine since then, but getting in […]

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