Habitot is a nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization that relies on community support
Habitot Children's Museum
2065 Kittredge Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 647-1111 www.habitot.org
• Ice cube trays
• Food coloring
• Water
• Ice cream sticks
• Coffee filters
• Paper
1. Mix concentrated solutions of water and food color in a measuring cup.
2. Fill each cube of an ice cube tray with one of the colored waters.
3. Insert a popsicle stick into each cube to make the cubes easier to handle
after freezing.
4. Freeze ice cube tray 24 hours.
5. When ready to paint, spread paper on a table.
6. Pop out frozen colored cubes and let children paint on paper with the ice cubes.
7. For something different, paint on coffee filters or other textured paper and
see what happens.
