Making Yellow Snow

It was a very busy, and unbalanced, week here in our household. The girls had some crazy ideas of what to do with the theme color, ranging from using crayons as start and finish lines to do races, to doing the old etching project where you color a piece of paper entirely with crayons, then color it over in black and scratch off the black crayon to find a surprise burst of color. This is fun, don't get me wrong, and it was their idea - which is one of my criteria for these unplugged projects (the projects belong to the child, I just provide the inspiration and materials and safe environment) but we were so pressed for time that I did not have a block of time to do this project and document it too.

What we did do that made the cutting board here, is spray "paint" the snow. I had the usual extra kids I babysit for so I had to do this project with everyone. And one day the weather warmed up to the double digits, so we all bundled up and made yellow snow. And blue, and green, and orange, and red ....

I filled some of my spray bottles I usually use for cleaning concoctions with water and some food coloring. I had four bottles and four kids - whew! Everyone loved trying to make different colors by adding layers of color on the snow.

Ziggy made a snow angel and then colored it in. The picture does not show all the different colors she ended up with.

Gherkie adjusted the flow to more of a stream and was able to make more intense coloration in the snow, and eventually write and draw lines.

We had a really good time, and only quit because the water was freezing and clogging up the spray bottles. Again, a good project for us to have fun with. Next week's inspiration is FLOAT. Oh lordy what will the two kids come up with for that!!