EASY SCIENCE EXPERIMENT FOR KIDS - 3 INGREDIENTSNeed an easy science experiment to do with your kids? You'll only need three simple ingredients. Next time you are at Trader Joe's or the grocery store, grab some white flowers and you'll be ready to go! Watch the video below or keep reading for step-by-step instructions. Here's what you need:
Trim the flowers and add them to a vase with water. Select a food coloring container to add to the water. (Here's a tip: choose blue or purple for the experiment to work better) Watch the white flowers slowly begin to turn colors as they start to drink the colored water. Blue and purple work better because these molecules are smaller and travel much more easily up the stem of the flower. My kids at so much fun tracking the color of these flowers every single day while we did it. It also didn't take long for the color to transfer. Once you are done with the easy STEM experiment for kids, try my flower activity linked here before you throw away those old flowers.
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SAVE THOSE OLD FLOWERS - CUTTING PRACTICE + ART ACTIVITY FOR KIDSHave some old flowers that are starting to turn brown? I am GUILTY of buying pretty flowers at Trader Joes or the grocery store when I am out. However, this time around, I happened to have some old flowers from another science experiment we were doing. They had already turned colors with the food coloring (new post on this coming soon!) and we were ready to toss them out. I remembered an activity I had seen The Busy Toddler post around Valentines Day and decided to give it a shot. Normally, I let Teddy take the flowers outside and "Isabella" them. Basically, he throws the flowers around, usually ripping off petals and spinning in circles to look like Isabella from Encanto. This usually makes a huge mess, so I decided to try something a little bit different and let the kids just cut away at the flowers in their activity plastic tub. This was a great idea. Because it was DIFFERENT! Cal usually has NO INTEREST in cutting practice and holding scissors properly, but he actually was interested in trying because he had never been allowed to cut flowers before. Teddy absolutely loved the activity of cutting old flowers too and even took the cutting practice one step further and created an art project with the petals. He taped the petals in patterns on his paper to make a pretty picture. Cutting inside the plastic bin made clean up so much easier than when they "Isabella" flowers outside. It also was a teaching moment with that cutting practice and, of course, a fun activity to do with the kids and the old flowers. |