It takes very few ingredients that can be found easily around the house.
Pour enough milk to cover the bottom of a plate
Add some food colouring
And then some dishwashing liquid to the centre of the food colour
It instantly splits the colour and gives you a tie-dye effect. "Woah!"
After splitting it as far as we could, adding more and more dishwashing liquid she used a paddle-pop stick to swirl it all together
Experiment over? It could be, but no, let's add a straw and blow bubbles. Talk about your observations
Will the same experiment work with water instead of milk? You'll have to try to find out. If your child is ready, talk about why or why not.
Bubble blowing is so much fun that it doesn't matter the result!
Wow! "When I blew really softly I made a GIGANTIC bubble"
Some tips:
- To simplify this activity, pour the milk and food colouring in yourself and have your child dip a cotton tip in detergent and then into the food colour
- To extend this activity, try using lots of different colours on the one plate and see what happens. Can you and your child create a colour wheel?
- You can use this activity to experiment with colour mixing
- Talk with your child about what they think is happening and why. Use different vocabulary and lots of descriptive words (adjectives) to extend their literacy skills.
- If blowing bubbles, see what the difference in the bubbles is if you have more or less detergent or if you blow harder or softer.
Debs :)
