Raindrop pictures

This morning we were talking about what rain looks like when it falls. We agreed that it doesn't look like water when you pour it from a bucket, but that it falls in 'raindrops' - well done Trystan for knowing this word! We decided to make some pictures showing what water drops look like to show Zok, the alien who needs to learn what weather is. But a picture of just water on paper would be a bit boring... so we decided to use watery paint instead!

To make our water fall in drops we learnt how to use pipettes. We had to practise using them because you have to squeeze them and let go while the pipette is still in the water, so it fills up. Then you squeeze it gently to let drops fall out on your paper. We tried doing drops from different heights and explored the different splash marks they made. We explored different colours - what would happen when we did a drop of purple on top of blue? We also learnt about mixing colours when we mixed some black and white powder paint and found that they made grey. We could change the shade of grey by adding more black or white - more black made a darker grey, and more white made a lighter grey.