Two days ago, we got to make Ferro fluids in a beaker. Ferro fluids are magnetic so we got to manipulate the liquid. When we put a bar 
magnet underneath the beaker the Ferro fluid got stuck to the bottom of the glass. When we moved that magnet around spikes of Ferro fluid would move around. We also did lithography and got to make our own image.
What we made in the beaker was iron oxide also known as magnitide. 
Its chemical name is Fe3O4. We made it with ferrous fluoride, ferric chloride, ammonium hydroxide, tetra methyl ammonium hydroxide, and water. Everything was time sensitive until it was finally done! The magnitide is black and really magnetic. We accidentally held a bar magnet over it and the magnitide jumped on to it!
For the lithography, we got to pick a picture and put it on a 1 by 1 tile. We got a piece of plastic and put it over the tile. Then we wrote with 
sharpie on the plastic our image. For me, I just wrote “Its business time!”. We then put under UV light for twelve minutes and then we dipped it in a liquid that was over 250 degrees centigrade! Then we polished them and the finished product was tile with our image on it.
I really enjoyed both these hands on labs because we got to incorporate science with art. When we finished the magnitide we got to change all the points in our direction and our order. We got to make designs on tiles using a really cool process.
http://www.slipperybrick.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/ferrofluid.jpg
http://www.forcefieldmagnets.com/catalog/images/ferro1.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithography
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Litography_press_with_map_of_Moosburg_02.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrofluid