What colour is black ink?

This question confused the children at first - black was the answer!  As part of our materials science topic we are mixing science and art and today we were doing chromatography.

We started with black ink and found out that black ink is not really black! 

 

Just like a scary eyeball!

 

 

Having fun at the same time as learning!

 

 

Moving on to using felt pens and making pictures.  This really did look like a dog's face!

We saved some for our display but the children were so pleased with their work we had to let them take them home!