Materials needed
Marbling Ink
Marbling Tray
A4 white card
Pour about 1” of clean water into a clean tray. Drop different colours
of marbling ink onto the water.
Use a straw or a marbling comb or a cocktail stick to swirl the ink
aroundso that the colours mix up!
Gentle lay a piece of card on the inked water. Leave it sitting on the
inked water until you can see the ink being absorbed onto the paper.
Try not to let the paper submerge under the water.Gently lift the
paper up from the water and lay flat and leave to dry.
You can use a hair dryer to speed up the process.
SOLAR SYSTEM
Materials needed
A2 black card
White card
Marbling ink
Templates for planets
Or/and compass
Chalk pastels
Glue/double sided tape
Marble your A4 Card. Keep in mind the colours associated with
each of the planets. Leave to dry.
Cut the A2 Black card in two along the length.
Using Chalk Pastels draw in the sun.
Just a piece jutting in from the bottom left hand side.
Using the templates for the planets cut them out of the marbled
paper. Or an easy guide: Mercury:20c coin,
Venus & Earth:50c coin, Mars:20c coin,
Jupiter & Saturn:large dinner plate, Uranus &
Neptune: cup/drinking glass, Pluto: 5c coin.
Arrange them in order and glue to the Black card.
Add rings around Saturn and Neptune using chalk pastels.
Add the moon near Earth and use templates to add space
rockets, comets, UFO’s, satellites, etc.
