Yesterday Ginger and I went for a walk and picked some Queen Annes Lace. We brought it home and placed 4 separate bunches into 4 jars, each with a different color of food coloring added to the jars. (You need to use a lot of food coloring) We have also done this with celery and white carnations.
This morning we checked our white flowers and whalla…..
As if by magic, we have colored flowers! Really just a good way to show how what we take in effects us. And a good , “Give a Hoot, Don’t Pollute!” example too.
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[...] to prepare for her first exam on the 23rd and we were going to be out all weekend. So when I saw Pepper Paint’s magic science post I knew that was the route we were going to go! I’d been wanting to do the colored celery [...]
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