Comments on: Exploring Colors In Nature

By: Kassandra

Kassandra — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:25:55 +0000

I love this idea. I’m packing the paintbrushes in our camping activity kit this instant! We’re going to the San Juan Islands off the Washington coast tomorrow - I wonder what fabulous ‘water colors’ we’ll come up with there?

Thanks so much for all your wonderful suggestions.

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By: Kenton and Rebecca Whitman

Kenton and Rebecca Whitman — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:19:46 +0000

How fun! Water is truly amazing — we often like to look for ‘gemstones’ after a rain — when the water droplets beaded on leaves glow with a bright silver light. It seems that every different species of plant creates its own particular glow. Another fun water trick is to take a jewelweed leaf and hold it just under the surface of water — when you look at the bottom of the leaf, one immediately learns why it’s called ‘jewelweed’. In an effort to discover just what gives the leaf this property, we examined one under the microscope yesterday, but we couldn’t tell what might cause that effect. We may just need higher magnification to unravel the mystery . . .

By: linda

linda — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:43:01 +0000

Loved the magic trick Cru!! You will have to do it at cousin camp this summer!

By: Sharlene

Sharlene — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:42:38 +0000

Great idea. Its amazing what a little water can do!

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