{"id":980,"date":"2010-07-18T04:47:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T04:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=980"},"modified":"2010-07-18T04:47:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T04:47:59","slug":"colored-water-busywork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/18\/colored-water-busywork\/","title":{"rendered":"Colored Water Busywork"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s a simple way I keep my boys happy when they’re bored and I need a few minutes to finish supper.\u00a0 Fill an ice cube tray or muffin tin with water (half full) and add a few drops of food coloring to about half of the cups (put a towel underneath for little ones who are prone to spills).\u00a0 Then give them eye droppers or medicine droppers to mix and match the colors.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is surprisingly fun for kids and very calming for my boys.\u00a0 They love to make a rainbow of colors and shades.<\/span><\/p>\n

They can also drop the colors onto coffee filters, newspaper, light colored construction paper or other absorbent paper to make patterns with the colors.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s simple fun, with a little color theory tossed in!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Want to add to the fun?\u00a0 Tint white vinegar instead, and then give them each a little bowl of baking soda with a baby spoon afterwards.\u00a0 They can add a tiny scoop of baking soda to each cup and see what happens!\u00a0 In color! <\/span> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a simple way I keep my boys happy when they’re bored and I need a few minutes to finish supper.\u00a0 Fill an ice cube tray or muffin tin with water (half full) and add a few drops of food coloring to about half of the cups (put a towel underneath for little ones who…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[27,100,180,211,237],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}