Painting with Ice Cubes

No one in their right minds would confuse crayons with ice cubes, so how does this science project work? Quite simply actually! What you need to do is take an ice cube tray and add a teaspoon of tempera paint to it. Next add some water and mix up the paint with the water.

Keep it standing for a few minutes and then mix it up again before you put it into the freezer. Stick in a toothpick in the ice cubes for easy handling. Don’t worry if you forget to add the tooth picks. It will just mean slightly messy hands, but the paint washes right off with soap and water.

Once the colored ice cubes are set remove them from the ice tray and use them on a thick paper to paint out whatever design you fancy. Run them in circles or triangles to form multi layered designs. You could also just leave them in strategic spots on the paper and allow them to melt into one huge abstract design.

Want to speed up the melting of the paint filled ice cubes? Just sprinkle some salt on them. You have used basic science like freezing, mixing fluids, and using a catalyst to speed up melting of ice. Pretty cool for a home grown science project!