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How to make dry erasemarkerfloatin water

If you are looking for an easy but festive Halloween STEAM experiment, look no further! This simple floating dry-erase marker experiment is easy enough for your child to try – and is so much fun!

When you dip the ink into water, the water slips right underneath the ink, giving it a floating effect without dissolving.

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Dry-erase markers contain an oily silicon, making the ink easy to remove. That is why they have the name “erase”. It gives the marker’s ink a slippery quality, so it can be easily removed from surfaces such as whiteboards, glass, metal, or ceramics.

For this dry-erase marker experiment, we drew spiders to get in the Halloween spirit. Here’s how we made the spiders float!

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That’s it! Feel free to play with the floating spiders by moving the water around or taking a straw and blowing on them. But try not to touch the spiders – they may stick!

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