Pounding Colors

One of our activities today was "pounding colors".  We picked flowers and leaves and then put them on the table under a piece of thin fabric. Then we pounded with a rubber mallet on the fabric until we saw the colors bleeding through. (Wish I would have thought to use the red berries  on the plants on the other side of the house! That might have been really messy though!)  This was a bit of a science experiment and art combined.  We learned that plants have water in them and they make colors that can be used as dye.  I love using nature in our activities.  What a fun project everyone enjoyed!