Project BioChemical Arts and Crafts
This is my project BioChemical arts and crafts summer camp. Some projects are subject to change.
Project BioChemical Arts and Crafts.
Make a solar flower
Make portraits of flowers with light responsive paper and sunlight.
Make a leaf paper origami
Make paper from pressed flowers and leaves that have been dried. Treat dried leaves and flowers with alcohol and press into paper. Make an origami shape.
Make a cricket condominium
Make a small colony of crickets with a tin box, sponge, egg carton, and feed. Decorate the condo.
Make an herb wreath
Make a small wreath with grapevine and twine. Decorate the wreath with fresh herbs to dry them in the sun.
Make a natural plant dye
Make a natural plant dye with various fruits and plants that transfer color. Use salts to set the color as a natural liquid pigment.
Make a bamboo kaleidoscope
Make a cut bamboo kaleidoscope with a prism and a glass lens. Decorate the color wheel with natural dyes and melted wax crayons.
Make a plant-dyed t-shirt
Make simple tie-dyed tshirts with the pigments created as a craft. Set the color with salts and allow to dry.
Make fertilizer kits
Make small bags of fertilizer sealed with heated wire closures. Add a straw and stopper then heat shrink the straw to the plastic.
Make a one quart fertilizer kits
Make a mixture of fertilizer. Fill the fertilizer kits with your fertilizer.
Make a 1 Qt water purifier
Make a water purifier with a 1 quart mason jar. Add filtering material and a funnel made of plastic.
Make paper mache nesting dolls
Make a nested doll mold. Create hollow nesting dolls that will fit into each other. Decorate them.
Make an ecosystem poem
Make 14 magnetic words about ecosystems. Create poems and haikus with them by matching them with madlibs.
Make fertilizer how-to cards
Make cards with Lewis Diagrams that explain how fertilizer works and how to create them.
Make sugar balls ornaments
Make a delicate sugar globe by growing crystals in a high concentration sugar solution.
Make a teacup diorama
Make a small delicate biome in a glass teacup. Create a story about your biome.
Make a plaster and seed LEGO wall
Make LEGO molds filled with planting matrix made of moss, fertilizer, sand and seeds. Build an herb wall by stacking LEGO "bricks".
Make a planet with tectonic plates
Make a globe from an inflatable ball out of paper mache. Create continents and islands.
Make a soil design cycle
Make a paper plate design cycle that gives data about soil health.
