Last weekend, I made these rainbow flowers.
Aren't they purty?
Wanna bring some rainbow cheer into your life?
They're easy to make. Plus, you get to see science at work.
Materials Needed to Make Rainbow flowers:
- white flowers
- Exacto knife (or any sharp knife)
- cutting board
- food coloring
- water
- glasses
Directions to Make Rainbow flowers:
1) Make four glasses of colored water (I dripped about 25 drops of food coloring into each glass to make my liquids almost opaque with color.)
2) Perform flower surgery. It's time to split your stems. Slice the stems in half. Then slice those halves into halves. Your flower stem should now split into four.
Note 1: Don't cut the stems all the way. Just cut them high enough so that your flowers will be able to stand up by themselves as they drink the colored liquid in.
Note 2: Some stems were so thin that I was only able to split them in half. That's why some of my flowers are only two colors.
3) Check back in a couple of hours and you should start seeing the petals turning different colors. Contain your excitement and wait. Let your flowers stand in the colored water overnight. Then, come back in the morning and enjoy your very own rainbow flowers.
Pretty flowers!
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T'onna @ Navy Wifey Peters Aboard the USS Crafty
I'm so doing this ASAP-like!
ReplyDeletevery nice :)
ReplyDeleteglad you guys like it. let me know if you try them out. ;)
ReplyDeleteMy nieces will love this!
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DeleteI always loved doing this when I was younger, and have yet to do it with my kids! Thanks for the reminder!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for visiting Ashley! :) Hope you and the kids have fun trying the activity out.l
DeleteOh they are beautiful! I've seen this done before with colouring the whole flower one colour, but I didn't realise you could colour the flower like a rainbow! Pinning :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Danya for visiting. Yeah, I was really delighted when I saw the results. Rainbow flowers? Definitely swoon-worthy. Thanks for pinning!
DeleteThese are gorgeous. Seriously! I am pinning this!
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:) Thanks Jill! Glad you liked it.
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