Showing posts with label diy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diy. Show all posts

Sunday, 2 April 2017

DIY upcycling project

Greetings fellow Scientists!

Our recent DIY project is a simple way to create lovely lanterns. Have a look:

Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Candle making session (part 2)

Greetings fellow Scientists!

In our last session this year we finished our candles. They turned out really well!




Have a restful break and make sure to visit our blog again in January.

Chemistree :)

Monday, 7 December 2015

Candle making session

Greetings fellow Scientists!

Today we started working on our Christmas candles. We used the following equipment:


We melted the wax and added wax crayons to achieve different colours of wax:




 
We poured the wax into votives:




Next week we are going to add more layers to achieve this final look:


Thursday, 2 July 2015

Upcycling - session 1

Greetings fellow Scientists!

As the school year comes to an end, we are taking a bit more relaxed approach to Science. We decided to take on a new project. Have you heard of upcycling? It's also know as a creative reuse. It is a relatively new approach towards creating new products of higher value by using materials that have been discarded. The idea for our project came from the Fun Crafts Kids website.

This is what we managed to do so far: