Making glow water
Glow water
After all our light play activities, we thought we would take you to a whole new place..... the dark.
Materials:Water
YELLOW highlighter (other colors will NOT work... I tried every one)
Black light (found mine here for $14.00! http://www.amazon.com/American-DJ-Black-Blacklight-Fixture/dp/B0002F5544/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1310168273&sr=8-2 )
Break open the yellow highlighter (I found the big ones are easiest to pop open... found a pack of 3 at the dollar store) and remove cylinder ink pad. Turn water on to a slow drip and let water run through the pad... which will collect into a bowl/jar of some type. After you get most of ink squeezed out you can cut open the plastic tube and remove the ink filled cotton. Soak it with a bit of water and squeeze it out into your jar. I ended up with maybe a cup of liquid between the water and highlighter ink. You CAN dilute this quite a bit and it will still glow. We filled a decent size tub half way up with water only using one little yellow highlighter, and I'm sure we could have diluted it more. Off to the fun part! Shine you black light where you will be using your glow water and watch the magic happen. Here are a few activities that we have tried. RL
Glow in the dark water beads.
To make these just let your clear
water beads soak in glow water
Glow ice! The green ice
cubes are frozen glow
water and the white/blue looking
ones are frozen tonic water.
I want a glow area. This would be awesome
. Glow in the dark bubbles,
white flowers soaking up some glow water
(stay tuned), glow sand, glow silly putty, moon rocks, glow water beads,
glow paint, glow powder, glow water,
pipe cleaners, rocks, blocks, shells, and sticks all painted in glow paint. :-)
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