Colour 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.