Natural Painting
Painting Naturally
You need:
- Vegetable skins (carrots, radishes, beets, zucchini)
- Whole vegetables (spinach, broccoli, peppers)
- 1 cup per plant
- Sturdy grinding sticks (and/or a knife, but only if a grown-up is
helping you!)
- Water
- Teaspoon
- Paint brushes
- Coffee filters
Directions:
1. Freeze the plants overnight.
2. Place each plant in a cup and thaw.
3. Grind, crush, and chop (if a grown-up is helping) each plant
until each cup contains only pulp.
4. Add 5 teaspoons of water to each cup.
5. Let sit for 5 minutes.
6. Dip a different paintbrush into each cup and dab the mixtures
on a coffee filter. See what colors and images you can create!
Explanation:
You made natural dyes! The colored dyes that you made are from
pigments found in plant cells. The pigments found in plants is what
gives them color, just like the pigments in our bodies give our hair,
eyes, and skin color. Freezing, chopping, and grinding the plant
helps break the plant cells and release the pigments.
Nearly every plant will produce some kind of color, whether we use
leaves, bark, wood, roots, or fruit. The colorfastness, meaning the
likelihood that the color will fade or run, varies with the color of the
plant. Mant plant pigments can be extracted and used as dyes.
These dyes, with additives, can be made into inks.
You need:
- Vegetable skins (carrots, radishes, beets, zucchini)
- Whole vegetables (spinach, broccoli, peppers)
- 1 cup per plant
- Sturdy grinding sticks (and/or a knife, but only if a grown-up is
helping you!)
- Water
- Teaspoon
- Paint brushes
- Coffee filters
Directions:
1. Freeze the plants overnight.
2. Place each plant in a cup and thaw.
3. Grind, crush, and chop (if a grown-up is helping) each plant
until each cup contains only pulp.
4. Add 5 teaspoons of water to each cup.
5. Let sit for 5 minutes.
6. Dip a different paintbrush into each cup and dab the mixtures
on a coffee filter. See what colors and images you can create!
Explanation:
You made natural dyes! The colored dyes that you made are from
pigments found in plant cells. The pigments found in plants is what
gives them color, just like the pigments in our bodies give our hair,
eyes, and skin color. Freezing, chopping, and grinding the plant
helps break the plant cells and release the pigments.
Nearly every plant will produce some kind of color, whether we use
leaves, bark, wood, roots, or fruit. The colorfastness, meaning the
likelihood that the color will fade or run, varies with the color of the
plant. Mant plant pigments can be extracted and used as dyes.
These dyes, with additives, can be made into inks.
 | |  | |  | |  | |  | |  |