An Indoor Play Activity
Here’s a quick and safe way to turn your kitchen into a junior chemistry lab!
Materials Required:
- Food coloring
- Containers
- Eye dropper
- Turkey baster
- Spoon
- Measuring cups
Instructions:
Provide containers of various sizes, bottles of food coloring, and various “lab” implements – eye droppers, turkey basters, spoons, measuring cups, and so on. Before turning your kids loose in Chemistry 101, though, be sure to explain that it only takes a drop or two of food coloring to do the job at hand.
The youngest kids will simply enjoy making colors and pouring colored liquid from container to container.
Depending on your child’s age and abilities, you can also use the activity as an opportunity to explain the primary colors, red, blue, and yellow, and how you can use them to create a multitude of other colors. (Blue + yellow = green; red + blue = purple; red + yellow = orange.)
Older kids might want to start a “lab notebook,” and record what happens when, for example, you mix twice as much red as blue to make purple. This is also a great way to teach about measurements. Let’s see now, one cup equals how many ounces?
This Childrens Activity is sponsored by Zane Education – the home of online Visual Learning
