Things You'll Need:
- 1 heavy duty paper white paper towel per student
- watercolor markers
- 1 spring closing clothes pin per student
- Eye dropper or gravy baster
- Water
- Clear fishing line
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Step 1
Pass out one white heavy duty paper towel for each student. Spread out the towels flat like a piece of paper in front of the student. Tell the students to color the paper towel using watercolor markers. Students can use as many or as few different colors as they want.
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Step 2
Drip water from an eye dropper or a gravy baster on each paper towel after the students finish coloring. You may need to put several drops of water on each towel to make the colors mix and diffuse throughout the whole towel. The water will interact with the pigment in the markers and as the paper towel absorbs the water, the colors will spread out in interesting patterns and blotches.
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Step 3
Allow the towels to dry flat.
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Step 4
Grab the towel at the middle of the top and pinch it to the middle of the bottom between the thumb and first finger. Place the pinched area between the jaws of a spring closing clothes pin. The clothes pin becomes the body of the butterfly and the painted towel becomes the wings.
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Step 5
Hang the butterflies with lengths of clear fishing line from the classroom ceiling.
