After a day of cooking and cleaning, stir up some kitchen chemistry in your home with our easy-to-do science play. What happens when you drop food colouring and dish soap on a plate of milk? Follow these simple steps to colour up your weekend with a beautiful work of art.
What you need
- A small carton of milk
- Dish soap
- A few cotton buds
- A few bottles of food colouring (red, yellow, blue and green)
- A transparent dinner plate
What to do
- Pour milk on a dinner plate
- Squeeze a drop of each food colouring in the middle of the plate
- Dip the tip of the cotton bud with dish soap
- Place the tip of the cotton bud onto the food colouring
- Watch the colours swirl on the milk
