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Assorted spoons left in the sun for 2 hours on black paper |
Sun Prints1 piece of construction paper
various items
that will lay flat on paper
Lay items on top of contruction paper (darker
colors work best) for 1-4 hours. Remove items and see the prints left behind.
Talk about how the UV rays from the sun cause a chemical reaction in which the
dye in the paper breaks down and causes it to fade in the spots that were not
colored.
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We taped the paper to the table to keep from blowing away as there was a slight breeze this day. |
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Choose items that are heavy enough, some of them did blow off during the 2 hours they were setting out. |
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All the prints with items removed. |
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This was a plastic dinosaur & a fish sand mold (that blew in to a different position than we had originally laid it in.) |
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