Activity Overview
Try this interesting twist on the traditional carnation coloring experiment to create bi-colored flowers that will turn a plain white flower into a dual colored masterpiece. The flower's stem consists of tiny tubes that bring water up to the flower through a process called capillary attraction. In this case the colored water is sucked up to the flower blossom through the different separated stem sections creating a dual colored flower.
Materials Needed
- A carnation
- Scissors
- 2 glasses of water
- 2 colors of food coloring
How to Do It
- Take white carnation by the stem slice the stem into two sections with your scissors.
- Snip off the very ends of the stem pieces
- Fill three glasses with water and mix a different color of food coloring into each glass.
- Place each half of the split stem into a separate glass of colored water.
- Observe your flower over the course of the next few hours and days.
