STEPS:
1. Mix paint (tempera, watercolor, food coloring) with a little water, and a squirt of washing-up liquid
2. Stir up
3. Blow with a straw to create lots and lots of bubbles.
4. Gently place the paper over the bubbles to take a print from them, remove, and allow to dry.
You can use a large tray of bubbles to cover a big sheet of paper, or use the same paper and repeat the motion to get overlaying prints, Alternatively, you can use several small pots of different coloured bubbles, as in the example below, and print them one at a time on the same page, (or cluster them together and do them all at once) to create multi-colour bubble circles. Another variation is to try layering one colour print with another using bubbles of a different colour.
MARIABELEN’s Bubble prints
2 years old- Art project
How did she do it?
color:
Mix of food coloring-blues
Vase:
circular to define shape
Hypothesis:
Bubbles will pop and make a mess!
Reflection:
MariaBelén realized that she was blowing bubbles to hard so bubbles were popping. She then adjust, and did it “softly” and got two prints out of each batch by laying the paper carefully over the bubbles.
Why it is important to reflect on process in a digital environment:
1. Students can replicate the process if successful
2. Students can make adjustments to process by identifying gaps, mishaps, errors, in process
3. By documenting on a digital Learning Portfolio, students carry a form of digital notebook that
– is easily shareable
– can be access by peers and teachers as it is developed
– students don’t forget at home
– is multi-modal; students can post images, video, sound bites, writing
– teachers can give feedback, and classmates too (peer-to-peer learning)!
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Potentiality of documentation; what things can become…
This art craft/exercise can be a good introduction to a formal class; the level of complexity determined by the students’ level.
GEOMETRY/MATH
DRAWING
Hi there,
We are in the process of creating a research report (authored by one of our analysts), that will be distributed publicly. The analyst would like to use the picture below in his Report. Is this your picture (found here: http://portfolio.newschool.edu/lpspace/2015/12/02/art-adventures-bubble-prints/ in the section highlighting “Chemistry”, and if so, we are requesting permission to use it for this purpose. Please let me know.
Thank you,
Heather.