Paint & Print

Painting and printing are great activities for creative development and fine motor skills. Here's some inspiration for your next painting activity!

STEAM: Rainbow Rain

Create your own wonderful weather system in a jar and make it rain a rainbow! This fun and engaging science experiment explores the concepts of colour mixing as well as the density of objects and the science of rain clouds.

Please note: You will also need shaving foam and water to complete this activity.
  • Before beginning this experiment, place a teaspoon of each of the powdered dye colours in separate jars and fill with water to create a red, yellow and blue liquid dye.
  • Step 1 Fill three jars with water leaving approximately 3cm unfilled at the top.
  • Step 2 Add a squirt of shaving foam on top of the water of each jar to create big fluffy ‘clouds’.
  • Try not to get too carried away adding the shaving foam! The more foam there is, the longer it will take to see the ‘rain’.
  • Step 3 Use a pipette to drop different colour combinations of coloured dye on top of the shaving cream. Watch as it flows through the ‘cloud’ and ‘rains’ into the water below.
  • Step 4 Observe what colour the water turns as the coloured ‘rain’ mixes and record your results.

Materials used in this activity

Paint Pipettes - Pack of 12
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