{"id":1806,"date":"2025-10-24T08:32:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:43:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:43:21","slug":"magnet-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2025\/10\/24\/magnet-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnet Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span data-contrast=\"none\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1807\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2025\/10\/Kuva1-300x240.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2025\/10\/Kuva1-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2025\/10\/Kuva1.png 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>Supplies Needed<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:300,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">Magnet wand<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:1440,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">Various metal items like ball bearings, springs &amp; screws<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:1440,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">Various non-metal items like marbles<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:1440,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">Paper<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:1440,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">Plastic tray or box (I used an old 9<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u2033<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> x 13<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u2033<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> food container)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:1440,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">Tempera paint.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:1440,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">Cups or palette to dip the metal pieces in<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:1440,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">Spoons to get the painted covered pieces into the tray.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:1440,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span data-contrast=\"none\">Magnet Painting How-To<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:300,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">To begin painting, pour your paint into something deep enough to drop your metal pieces into.\u00a0 An egg carton works well. Then cut your paper to fit your tray and place a piece inside. Now it\u2019s time to paint! Dip a metal piece in paint and drop it into the tray. Then take the magnet wand and move it around <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">under<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> the plastic tray as this keeps the metal pieces rolling smoothly.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-contrast=\"none\">Time for Experimentation<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:300,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">One of the best parts of this project is that kids can learn a little science while painting. You can use all metal pieces, or you can throw in some things that the magnet can\u2019t move like glass marbles. Even different metal pieces move differently.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:270,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The idea is taken from the blog <a href=\"https:\/\/leftbraincraftbrain.com\/\">LeftBrainCraftBrain<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supplies Needed\u00a0 Magnet wand\u00a0 Various metal items like ball bearings, springs &amp; screws\u00a0 Various non-metal items like marbles\u00a0 Paper\u00a0 Plastic tray or box (I used an old 9\u2033 x 13\u2033 food container)\u00a0 Tempera paint.\u00a0 Cups or palette to dip the metal pieces in\u00a0 Spoons to get the painted covered pieces into the tray.\u00a0 Magnet Painting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2025\/10\/24\/magnet-painting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201dMagnet Painting\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2590,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}