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Nebula craft with your kid at home for fun
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- 1Nebula Craft at home with your childOnce your child has made a nebula ask them:
Is this a Dark Nebula, Emission Nebula, Planetary Nebula, Reflection Nebula, or Supernova (Remnant) . Have them give you details why. - 2—Ingredients:
A bottle/jar with a lid (check dollar tree)
A few cotton balls
Some food coloring, blue is best, but any colors you want. Nebulae come in a lot of different colors
Those are the minimum basics but you can add some more stuff for fun:
Glitter of any color
Small beads
Small jewels - 3—Step 1: Put some water in your container. Fill it about half way.
- 4—Then add a drop of blue food coloring. Or you can choose another color. But blue is a good place to start.
Do NOT stir
- 5—Tear up a couple of cotton balls and put them in the container.
- 6—Add some more water. You can fill it almost all the way up if you want.
If not and you want to try more colors, follow next 2 steps after putting in more water, then double back to this step.
- 7—Next add another drop or two of the food coloring. Use the blue again or maybe some red. But don't stir the bottle now.
- 8—Let this new drop of food coloring settle on its own. It will create a wonderful nebula look.
- 9—Now add some of the details like glitter. And then add some more torn up cotton! The glitter will tend to float.
- 10—But if you add cotton after wards then you can use that to push the glitter down.
- 11—Then have some fun adding other details if you like. Beads, jewels, gems or how about a tiny figure? The sky is the limit :)
- 12—Don't forget to have your child explain why it is the nebula they say it is. What star or lack of stars is at its center? What happened to create it!
- 13A big thanks for our craft:http://www.stormthecastle.com/telescopes/make-a-nebula-in-a-bottle.htm
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