Directions:Mix together 4 TB baking soda and 4 TB water.
Dissolve baking soda in water in the cup.
Dip the cotton swab in the mixture and paint a design or message on the paper. (It will be invisible)
Wait for your artwork/message to dry.
Brush watercolor paint over the paper to reveal the message or art.
Ack, this didn't work! The messages were not invisible on the paper
and when we tried to paint over them, we could not see the messages. (So, the messages become secret after all!)
I wasn't about to give up on secret messages though. I went with the old standby: we wrote messages in white crayon on white paper and painted over those with watercolors. Worked like a charm.
After a while, I ran out of clever things to write and started writing C's first grade words for him to reveal. I never thought about this before, but it is a fun way to practice spelling words or sight words!!
