Walking Water
Watch water "walk" from glass to glass in this fun color eggsperiment! Children can learn about color mixing and capillary action.
What you need:
- At least 3 empty glasses
- water
- food coloring (Liquid Dye or Dye Tablets)
- paper towels
- Choose the colors you want to mix. We did red and yellow, blue and yellow, and red and blue.
- Fill a jar for each color and add food coloring. You will need an additional empty glass of the same size for each pair of colors.
- Cut a paper towel in half and then fold it into quarters lengthwise. Stick one end of the paper towel into the colored water and one end into the empty jar.
Thanks to capillary action the water moves or “walks” up the paper towels into the empty jar. The middle jar fills up with water until the water levels of all the jars are equal. When you start with primary colored water in the jars it also turns into a cool coloring mixing lesson.
