I had a chunk of ice from an ice chest we had when camping and I refroze it. I put in in a big dish and let the boys drop water color onto it and add salt. It is neat to watch the colors run down into the ice. As colors ran together they made new colors (I asked Westley, Westley look, there is the color green, but we don't have green paint... how did it get green? He knew- he told me, because blue and yellow made green!)
In some places the paint froze and made darker colors.
The salt helps bond the ice together. We have some little pieces of ice we could actually kind of stick to the top of our ice chunk.
We thought it kind of looked like a boat so we pretended it was a boat, surrounded by glaciers.
The boys had a great time with this and wanted to do it longer.
Next time I am going to try and use a much larger chunk of ice (if I can ever make room in my freezer for it) and use actual eye droppers as our dropper was kind of hard to use.
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