{"id":1944,"date":"2026-05-29T09:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:04:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:04:56","slug":"drop-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2026\/05\/29\/drop-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Practice colour theory. What are your child&#8217;s favourite colours? How can you mix new colours?\u00a0What colour is cooking oil and what colour is water?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Phase 1: Material<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Disposable plates<\/li>\n<li>Household paint<\/li>\n<li>Glass jars<\/li>\n<li>Pipettes<\/li>\n<li>Cooking oil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Phase 2: Activity<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1946\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2026\/05\/lab_research_chemistry_test_experiment_many_pharmaceutical_colored-1113049-removebg-preview-300x198.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2026\/05\/lab_research_chemistry_test_experiment_many_pharmaceutical_colored-1113049-removebg-preview-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2026\/05\/lab_research_chemistry_test_experiment_many_pharmaceutical_colored-1113049-removebg-preview.png 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pour cooking oil into a disposable plate. Mix food colouring powder with water in glass jars to get different colours or use ready-made food colouring products. Start pipetting one food colouring at a time onto the cooking oil. Try to make small droplets. What&#8217;s going on? Does the oil and paint mix? The drops? Let&#8217;s try different colours and different sizes of drops. What happens if you put two colours on top of each other?<\/p>\n<p>You get drop art. We recommend taking pictures of the teardrop art with iPads.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, try mixing all the paint drops together with the pipette tip as a mixing aid?\u00a0What happens then? Do you get the drops to mix with the oil or with each other?<\/p>\n<h2>Phase 3: Why?<\/h2>\n<p>Oil and water do not mix with each other since they have different chemical bonds.<\/p>\n<p><em>This science experiment is also suitable for the youngest in early childhood education.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.turku.fi\/steam-turku\">This idea come from STEAM Turku<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.turku.fi\/steam-turku\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1729\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2024\/11\/Steam-Turku-300x136.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" data-wp-editing=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2024\/11\/Steam-Turku-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2024\/11\/Steam-Turku.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practice colour theory. What are your child&#8217;s favourite colours? How can you mix new colours?\u00a0What colour is cooking oil and what colour is water? Phase 1: Material Disposable plates Household paint Glass jars Pipettes Cooking oil Phase 2: Activity Pour cooking oil into a disposable plate. Mix food colouring powder with water in glass jars &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2026\/05\/29\/drop-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201dDrop Art\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-1944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944","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=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1948,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions\/1948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}