We made sugar cube sculptures. What a fun and surprising lesson
in building, painting, and dissolving! - Box of sugar cubes -
Glue bottle - Sturdy base to glue onto - Paint in squeezy
bottles Boxes of sugar cubers were harder to find than I
thought, but I ultimately found them at our big supermarket (and
bought 2!). We used scrap wood for the base, basic Elmer’s
school glue, and Nancy Bottles for the paint. I suggested that
we could build a sculpture with the sugar cubes, and presented N
with the materials. That’s all she needed to hear before she
began to glue the cubes onto the panel. And stack them up tall.
You can see that this isn’t the strongest structure in the
world!! I filled some Nancy Bottles with watered down BioColor
paint, which my daughter then squeezed all over the sculpture.
Because the water acted as a dissolving agent, if I were to do
this again I’d use straight-up paint without the additional
water. It’s looking a little patriotic, no? And it end up in
this beautiful heap of swirly, meltin