Marbled Paper

Materials Needed:

-Some chalk pastels or regular chalk

-Some paper

-A shallow tub that the paper fits in filled with around a centimeter or two of water.

-Something to scrap the chalk – we used plastic knives.

-Somewhere flat you can lay your prints to dry

Instructions:

-Begin by filling your tub with water, it doesn’t need to be very full, just enough to cover the bottom of the tub.

-Now choose a chalk and carefully but firmly scrape chalk onto the the top of the water. The colored chalk dust will float on the top of the water. -Add more and more colors.

-You can use a skewer to swirl and mix the colors if you like, but be quick and gentle, you want most of the chalk to stay floating on the surface of the water, if it gets too water logged it will sink.

-Now take your piece of paper and gently place it onto the surface of the water. Use your finger tips to press the paper gently onto the top of the water. After a minute or so gently lift the paper off the top of the water to reveal your floating chalk print!