Then we made some caterpillars dance! Using glass jars with little bits of pipe cleaners, we waved our magnet wands around the jars, the pipe cleaner bits or "caterpillars" moved around the jar. momstown Oakville kids even did some magnetic painting! Each child got a paper plate filled with a blob of yellow, blue and red paint. We placed a paper clip on our plate, and then used our magnet under the plate to move the paper clip around, through the paint and all over the plate. The colours all mixed and we made green, orange and purple and our plates looked like beautiful works of art!
Finally we played with 5 different magnetic toys - a magnetic bar and ball set which we used to build towers and shapes, a magnetic person with magnetic clothes that we could change, a fishing puzzle with a magnetic fishing rod and magnetic fish pieces, magnetic vehicles that we zoomed all over a metal baking tray, and plastic fish that we turned magnetic by using a paper clip which we could "fish" for using our magnet wand.
