Dyeing

What you will need:

This is simple and quick but can be messy. Use the finished towels in pictures, gift wrapping or decoration

Colour mixing

	1 Using kitchen towel, fold a sheet in different ways until it is quite small
	2 Dip the paper towel in some ink or food colouring. Have a few colours ready
	3 Unfold and leave to dry on some newspaper

Blotterflies

This can be done with many colours, but if you use only two you can show how two colours can make a third colour e.g. red and yellow make orange

Colour mixing and pattern making

	1 Put blobs of colours on one side of a piece of paper that has been folded in half.
	2 Fold the paper and push the paint around with your finger
	3 Peel the paper apart and leave to dry
	4 When dry, fold the paper back again and draw half a shape of a bug, butterfly etc and cut