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Blotto art – foster your kid’s imagination

Posted on October 1, 2015 | 2 comments

A fun art project that always allured kids with its surprise element. What is really fascinating about blotto art is that each time your kids reveal a new painting; No two are ever the same.

To create a blotto painting:

fold a white paper in half,
open it to put drops of paint in the center,
close it again and rub gently the paper to help spread the paint
and finally open it to reveal your surprise blotto art!

Unfolding the paper was really fun! The look of surprise on Nady’s face was priceless. Each time and before revealing the painting, he was trying to imagine what it looks like. We did so many and it was hard to stop this project, Nady showed full admiration.

It’s a great fun project to fire your kids imagination. After revealing the final blotto paint, ask your kiddo what he can see and enjoy their creative imagination.

All parents should favor the imagination of their children and feed this power. It’s like revealing the natural genius in them. A child with a good imagination is a happy child. He is more alert and present ability to cope with life’s changes, and more likely to grow into a secure adult.

Imagination ignites the forces of creativity in your children. A creative child, is not necessary growing into an artist adult. Creative people see things in different ways and find solutions to problems others might miss. Problem solving and innovative thinking begins with the power of imagination. Leaders are creative people!Back to our blotto project, to extend the fun we decided to add objects to the paintings after giving them identity. We enjoyed sticking wiggling eyes, feathers, pompoms…

Leave the freedom of imagination to your kids, don’t force a yellow spot to be the sun, sit back and watch him spark his brain to forge imagination pathways of its own.

The first few years are really important for your children mental development, expose your toddlers to new experiences especially the pretend play to help them grow up as problem solvers.

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Volcanic eruptions and rainbow lava experiment – My Little Scientist

Posted on September 23, 2015 | Leave a comment

Art and science come together in this fun and colorful experiment. This activity comes together with just 3 ingredients and no preparation; In a brown cup (close to look like a real volcano) we put roughly 1 cup of baking soda with few drops of food coloring, then we poured the vinegar, enough to start seeing the eruptions (due to acid – base reaction).

To get those colorful ripples, looking like a rainbow, we were adding the food coloring one after the other while the volcano was erupting.

We started with green, yellow and blue, first all together then one at a time to get like earth colors ripples, and ended it with the red orange to look like a real volcano!.Every time we were adding a color, Nady was pouring more vinegar to get more and more eruptions. We did many until there was no more vinegar left at home 🙂

Stunning right? Nady and I were in awe!! Don’t hesitate to try this experiment, it’s absolutely safe (The chemicals produced are non-toxic), easy and so much fun.

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Color changing flowers experiment – My Little Scientist

Posted on September 21, 2015 | 2 comments

This experiment is a great lesson of “patience” to give to your children, of course beside teaching them about flowers and osmosis. But before going that deep let me tell you it’s also a great fun for the whole family!

Very easy set up; begin by filling the vases with water and desired colors. We used roses and daisies for the experiment. Give a fresh cut to the flowers before placing them in the colored water, it helps for a quicker absorption.

As the flowers drink the colored water, they will start changing colors (due to osmosis effect, in simple words moving water through the stems to make it more comprehensible to your kids as the flowers need to drink). The change won’t start before few hours.

Our first observation was 6 hours later.

The roses were more colored than the daisies. Not all flowers react the same. Nady is so into experiences nowadays, he expects to do one every day after school. I am sure he is fascinated with the outcome thinking it’s magic more than science. I don’t blame him, i would like to believe so also, it brings more fun to the experiment 🙂

Each time we go back to check on the flowers, i don’t hide it, i was even more excited than Nady! And this is how they looked after 24 hours.

The red and yellow looked amazing! the slowest was purple, so we eliminate it, Nady thought it wasn’t fun 🙂 Don’t do that maybe yours will work!

After each observation, Nady wants to take pictures with his magical flowers. Then we put them back each in their corresponding vase.

Honestly i was very impressed with his patience, personally i wasn’t. It was a good exercise for me too.

Last observation was 48 hours later. Here are our beautiful flowers!!

You can leave the flowers in the water as much as you want, the colors will be certainly brighter. It all depends on the patience of your children.

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Magic milk and swirling colors experiment – My Little Scientist

Posted on September 17, 2015 | 2 comments

It’s one of the awesome science experiments that will wow your kids and turn out to an art project. A perfect mix of science, art and fun. All you need is milk, liquid food coloring and dish soap to see the colors moving and swirling into amazing patterns.

Pour the milk in a shallow container, add few drops of many colors and dip a q-tip in liquid dish soap, ask your kid to poke the food coloring and let the magic start!

The reaction of the soap disrupting the surface tension of the milk causes the colors to radiate away from the q-tip ( In simple terms, the soap breaks apart the molecules of fats and proteins in the milk and he chases them trying to join with them). The more you poke the colors the more patterns you get! it was really spectacular. We did this experience so many times that we finished all the milk we had at home. Who cares! i love the face of my kid when he is super happy and exploring new things.

His reaction was priceless, couldn’t stop the experiment, i was enjoying as much as he did. He asked to repeat it 10 times!!!

and each time we were getting more beautiful patterns!

And to make it a real art project we transferred the patterns on papers to get beautiful piece of art.

It was a fun way to explore and learn. I cherish the time with my kid and invite all the parents to play with theirs and enjoy this priceless quality time. I can’t wait until Joud becomes the age when he can join his brother to our playtime.

These are Nady’s chef d’oeuvre;

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