Sugar Rainbow in a Jar
Learn about water density with this fun eggsperiment using colored dye and sugar.
What you need:
- Sugar
- Water
- Colored Dye
- A Tablespoon
- 5 glasses
- Pipette/Baster
Steps to follow:
- Fill 4 glasses with water. Leave the 5th glass empty.
- Add 2-3 drops of colored dye to each glass of water. Add red coloring to the first glass, yellow to the second, green to the third, and blue to the fourth.
- In the glass with red coloring, do not add any sugar. In the yellow glass, add one tablespoon of sugar. In the green glass add two tablespoons of sugar. In the blue glass add three tablespoons of sugar. Leave the fifth glass empty.
- Stir the sugar/food coloring/water solution in each glass until the sugar is completely dissolved - you can use warm or room temperature water to speed this up and make sure all sugar is dissolved.
- Using the pipette or baster, fill the empty 5th glass ¼ full with the blue sugar solution, then add ¼ of the green solution which should sit on top. Then add ¼ of the yellow solution, then ¼ of the red solution to finish. Go slowly, making sure the different layers don’t mix into each other. You should have created a rainbow!
