Celebrating the festive season remotely with family
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Read moreColour changing flowers
What you need
- White carnations or other white flowers
- Food colouring – blue or red
- Water
- Small jars or yoghurt pots
Benefits
- Learning about how flowers drink water through their stems
- Refining fine motor skills by cutting stems of the flowers and pouring water into the pots
The experience
Let’s see if we can change the colour of a white flower into something lovely and bright!
- Trim down the stems of the white flowers so they fit into your jars or yoghurt pots.
- Add water to each pot.
- Put about 10-15 drops of food colouring into the water and stir around a bit. Add a white carnation into each pot and watch over time how they change colour!
- Maybe you could press your newly coloured flowers or make a lovely piece of artwork.