This homemade paintball bomb experiment would be cool any time of year, but it might be really fun to do this experiment and use the bombs to paint a pumpkin.
Teach Beside Me has all the details of how to turn regular tempura paint into gelatinous blobs that do kind of explode in a bomblike way when they hit a surface with force.
This is a great combination of science, math (getting the proportions right to make the science work) and art. Another fun option for using the paint bombs might be putting paper on a fence and throwing paint at it. You could even draw a bullseye and do target practice.
Would you try something like this with your kids? It requires planning to get the ingredients but I think it would be well worth it for a fun art exploration. If you try it I’d love to hear what you think.
[Photo via Teach Beside Me.]
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