Preschoolers love science. It’s like you can see all of those tiny gears inside their minds spinning, trying to understand this crazy awesome world they are living in.

Pour the oil into the jar of water. Watch as the oil stays on top of the water and the dots of color slowly start dropping down into the water. As they fall into the water, the color dots will “explode” and begin mixing into the water! *Tip: holding the jar up to light can make it easier to see the explosions. Also, lightly swirling the jar can help the colors to drop and burst in the water faster. Science Concepts The moral of the story is, yes, preschool science experiments can and SHOULD be simple, fun, and may only take a minute or two. And, that’s ok! Children at this age thrive on play, creativity, and shouldn’t be expected to hold attention for longer than a few minutes at a time anyway. This experiment is a great chance to demonstrate and explain to your preschooler that oil and water do not mix. When you pour the oil into the jar of water, your child can see the oil sit on top of the water!Step 4 – Watch in amazement as the colors dances across the surface of the milk.Do you know what caused the colors to move around in the milk? Find out the answer in the how does this experiment work section below. Video Tutorial Robert Herbert writes: "Metzinger's Neo-Impressionist period was somewhat longer than that of his close friend Delaunay... The height of his Neo-Impressionist work was in 1906 and 1907, when he and Delaunay did portraits of each other (Art market, London, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) in prominent rectangles of pigment. (In the sky of Coucher de soleil no. 1, 1906–07, Collection Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, is the solar disk which Delaunay was later to make into a personal emblem)." Herbert describes the vibrating image of the sun in Metzinger's painting, and so too of Delaunay's Paysage au disque (1906–07), as "an homage to the decomposition of spectral light that lay at the heart of Neo-Impressionist color theory..." In the prime of his career he painted a number of series that included: the Saint-Sévrin series (1909–10); the City series (1909–11); the Eiffel Tower series (1909–12); the City of Paris series (1911–12); the Window series (1912–14); the Cardiff Team series (1913); the Circular Forms series (1913); and The First Disk (1913). He traveled to Brittany, where he was influenced by the group of Pont-Aven; and, in 1906, he contributed works he painted in Brittany to the 22nd Salon des Indépendants, where he met Henri Rousseau. In a small dish, mix oil with 3 drops of each food coloring. Stir them up. The colors will not mix in the oil, but stirring helps to mix them around and separate them!

Robert Delaunay was born in Paris, the son of George Delaunay and Countess Berthe Félicie de Rose. While he was a child, Delaunay's parents divorced, and he was raised by his mother's sister Marie and her husband Charles Damour, in La Ronchère near Bourges. When he failed his final exam and said he wanted to become a painter, his uncle in 1902 sent him to Ronsin's atelier to study Decorative Arts in the Belleville district of Paris. At age 19, he left Ronsin to focus entirely on painting and contributed six works to the Salon des Indépendants in 1904.We fear that we don’t know how to explain something well enough, so we just avoid doing it. Leaving it to the teachers, the professionals, sometimes seems like the easier and less messy route. I firmly believe in nurturing that love of science with all the fun preschool science experiments we can come up with. So, what makes a great experiment?

Detailed Magic Rainbow Milk Science Experiment Step by Step Instructions How Does the Science Experiment WorkMilk is a mixture of water, fat, vitamins and minerals. When soap is added to the milk, it helps to separate the water and fat in the milk. When soap is mixed in with the fat and water, the hydrophobic end of the soap molecule breaks up the nonpolar fat molecules, and the hydrophilic end of the soap molecule links up with the polar water molecules. Now that the soap is connecting the fat and water, the nonpolar fat molecules can be carried by the polar water molecules.