Guest Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Hi How do you use salad spinners to make patterns?? Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredbear Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Hi Moorgate, will be watching this one with interest as following an earlier post we purchased one, but we certainly didn't get the desired effect as previous people had, not sure what we are doing wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panders Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Take the basket out of the base half. Use it as a template for drawing round onto paper, we used bog standard A4 printer paper for this. Return basket to the base, put in a piece of the paper. Slightly watery poster paint, put either dropper fulls or spoonfuls onto the paper dotted about. Put the lid on the spinner and give it a jolly good whizz. The centralfugal (sp?) force should spin the paint about and mix it up. I think getting the paint consistency correct is key. Possibly the paper too. If paper is too absorbent then maybe the paint doesn't move about quite so easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finleysmaid Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 we use small size cheap paper plates they work well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredbear Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Thank you definitely going to give it another go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 (edited) If you use readymix as it comes, you get star shapes from your drops as the paint is 'heavy' so shoots straight for the sides, if you use Edicol (food colouring) you get a spiral pattern. With older children we use that and talk about clockwise and anticlockwise. We do the drops with a dropper and spin clockwise, then add more drops and spin anticlockwise. You end up with something that looks a bit spirograph-like Edited June 7, 2011 by Cait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredbear Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 They look great, right spinner at the ready and go........................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueJ Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 We will sometimes encourage the children to use black paper with white paint and glitter to get a spiders web result. This is also a great one for colour mixing activities. One year we used the salad spinner to make the planets for our version of the universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 We will sometimes encourage the children to use black paper with white paint and glitter to get a spiders web result. This is also a great one for colour mixing activities. One year we used the salad spinner to make the planets for our version of the universe. Thank you all very much. Will give it a go tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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