Color Engineering

We are devoting a day to exploring colors and how our eyes perceive them.

Blur and stain using the science of chromatography. We’ll see how different molecules move at different speeds, revealing the hidden pigments in colors. Turn your creations into a book you bind as a special keepsake.

Get colorful with crayon art. Safely melt crayons that drip into beautiful shapes and mix to make new colors that might be unexpected. Create your own scratch art with crayons!

Mix colors without paint! Build a Benham’s disk top and learn how black and white spinning designs are processed by the three kinds of cones in your eye to bring colors into their spinning action. Flip it over to make a Newton’s color disc and see how to erase colors!

Our day will be filled with experimentation to see what other new things we can learn about the science of colors!