This was a pretty cool sensory tub experience. Using a small personal tub I filled it with ice and a small amount of water. I then added four different colors of water color. Using the pipettes he mixed the colors together and created new colors. He also enjoyed trying to stack the ice cubes and knocking them down by squirting water on them. What I thought was super cool about this tub was because of the ice it took the colors a long time to mix together, so it was not a sudden change from their solid color state to a brown like color like most times when you are mixing colors. This really gave him an idea of what different colors you can make by mixing as the colors did not mix too fast. Even when all the colors had spread out the ice still seemed to separate the colors enough to notice where each color met another. Watching the ice cubes slowly melt and the water level rise helped us comprehend the idea of solids vs liquids. Very simple and easy water tub!
Some of what we learned:
-Color recognition
-Color mixing
-Experimenting
-Fine motor skills enhanced
-Temperature recognition
-Comparing
-Sense of volume
-Comprehension of solids vs liquids
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| Two different colors piped up from two different spots to compare the colors. |
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| Colors still separated from the ice. Making bubbles with the pipettes. |
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