{"id":2806,"date":"2013-08-30T01:12:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T09:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2013-08-29T21:38:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T05:38:02","slug":"painting-with-magnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/painting-with-magnets\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting with Magnets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The idea is simple, you put some paper on a clip board, add some dollops of paint, put a magnet or steel ball bearing on the top<\/p>\n

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and one on the bottom, and swish it around. As the kids showed up I would tease them that we were doing magic painting this week, and while it is strictly prosaic science, it is also a bit magical.<\/p>\n

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You can use different magnets for different effects, here is a bar magnet on top, sweeping up the paint.<\/p>\n

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It turned out some of the neodymium magnets I got were a bit on the strong side, so we experimented with how many ball bearings they could hold together on the top. I had an awful lot of fun swinging the chain around through the paint! <\/p>\n

\"Fingers\"<\/a><\/p>\n

While the older kids and grownups got into using the magnets, the younger kids reverted to painting ‘with’ the magnets pretty quickly.<\/p>\n

\"goop<\/a><\/p>\n

Rebecca seemed mostly interested in treating her magnets as magic stirring rods, and just kept adding more paint into the center to magically mix up new interesting colors.<\/p>\n

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Alina worked out this star shape with the magnet path giving it an elaborate filigree pattern.<\/p>\n

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And here is the start<\/p>\n

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and then finish of a lovely flowery color whirlpool by I can’t quite remember who.<\/p>\n

So, fun! And science, and mess! I got the inspiration from MaryAnn F. Kohl’s Science Arts<\/em>, but the implementation was ours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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