Rainbow Art and Science

Dallin loves making art projects, but usually I don't want to do anything to messy. That means we do a lot of paper cutting and gluing. Once in a while the stamps or paint make an appearance, but not as often as he would probably like.

He also loves science and LOVES science projects. We bought a kit of science projects from a homeschool catalog,  I am pretty sure we did 7 or 8 of them the first day. He begs to do them all the time. About a week ago he asked me about wax (to be honest, I don't remember why but I think it has something to do with something we had seen in a movie), so I pulled down my Scentsy and turned it on. We watched how the wax melted from a solid to a liquid and how it hardened again when I stuck my finger in it and pulled it out.

Today we did a project that combined both science and art.  I've seen crayon art all over pinterest, but never really thought about doing it till I realized the science involved. First, we had to sort into color groups, then place them in rainbow order. We glued them on the canvas, pulled out the hair dryer, and started melting. At first he was upset because he wanted to color with the crayons, but later decided it was cool and helped me melt them. He was surprised how fast they hardened after we stopped the blow dryer. Most the the crayons melted pretty well, but not the blues and purples. I think if we ever did it again I would leave them out.

He wanted a good place to put it, so up on the shelf it went. He said it made our house look like an haunted house.