Pendulum Paintings-Assignment 8-Option 4

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Recommended for grades 3rd-5th, but younger students could do this with a parent or older sibling's assistance. 

Objective:

 To create a pendulum for painting using string, a water bottle(or old glue bottle), and watered down tempera paint.

 Materials needed:  larger and thicker pieces of paper like posterboard, scissors, string, tempera paint that you will water down or something similar, something to hold the paint(I used an old water bottle and took off the cap. I then hot-glued a glue cap to the water bottle, and took off the orange part part of the cap.  I also duct taped around the glue to make sure that it would not leak.)

 You could also make the container to hold the paint out of a soda bottle or a large paper or styrofoam cup.  You can get pretty creative with your invention.  I have seen people do this in many different ways.


Hello Artists!

        I made pendulum paintings at an art camp a few years ago.  A pendulum is a weight hung from a fixed point so that it can swing freely backward and forward. This was a VERY messy project, but OH SO MUCH FUN! Now to do this, you are going to have to put your inventor cap on to make the container to hold the paint, and allow the paint to drip steadily. I have done this a few different ways, but our best invention was to use an old water bottle.  We cut the bottom of the water bottle off with scissors.  We then made three hole punches on the bottle near the bottom and tied string to them.  The cap of the water bottle we took off.  I replaced it with a glue bottle head, but I took off the orange part of the head.  We then hot glued it onto the water bottle and duct taped over that.  We watered down tempera paint to dump into the water bottle. We found a nice tree to hang our contraption to.  We set up our paper under the paint pendulum and then we put the paint in the container and pushed our pendulum to get it going.  The result were paintings that looked similar to Jackson Pollock's splatter paintings. If you don't know who Jackson Pollock is then click here: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-jackson-pollock
If you want to watch a children's book on Jackson Pollock then click here: https://youtu.be/EKyN7W_UZj8

 There are other pictures and videos on different ways to do this online.  Here is another video that might be helpful.

Here is another way to do it: https://kidssteamlab.com/pendulum-painting/




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