Skills/Objective:

What You Need:

• water
• food coloring
• ice cube trays
• a freezer
• toothpicks
• paper

What You Do:

1. Put water in ice cube tray
2. Add food coloring and a toothpick to each container
3. Freeze
4. Remove when frozen
5. Have the children paint with the diffrent colored ice and talk about how the ice turns from a solid to a liquid; talk about the primary colors - Red, Yellow and Blue.

"I work with a group of 4 years olds and we tried the cube painting I found on this site. The kids loved it. I did things slightly different than you suggested. Instead of using food coloring in the water for the ice cubes I made a very liquidy mixture with powder tempera paints and froze it in the ice cube trays with popsicle sticks instead of tooth picks. The colors were much more vibrant and the popsicle sticks did not break when the kids pressed hard."