Do your kids also love science experiments?
Well, you’ve come to the right place! This cabbage experiment is so much fun to set up and easy enough so that your kids can help or even doing it themselves depending on their age!
Afterwards the excitement continues as your kids can come back keep checking the cabbage leaves and see how they’ve changed!
So much fun!!!
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Materials, you'll need
You will only need very few inexpensive materials to do this experiment:
- cabbage (alternatively white flowers – carnations work best)
- liquid food dye
- 6 glasses/ containers
How to do the cabbage experiment
The experiment is pretty simple to set up.
- Fill each container about half way with water
- Add a few food dye drops to each container and stir (we used the rainbow colors -red, orange, yellow, green, blue and pink/purple)
- Take off 6 leaves from the cabbage and trim the bottom of each leave (my kids use these safety gloves in the kitchen and they are awesome!)
- Add one cabbage leaf to each container
- Wait and observe over the next few days how the leaves change
What to expect?
You should be able to see a change in color after a few hours. The colors continue to intensify over the next 1 – 3 days.
It’s really great for the kids to see how the color of the leaves changes. And also to notice that they are not dyed on the outside like you could do with the pen. Instead, the leaves really soaked up the colored water from within and are now truly stain from inside.
The colors can’t be washed off. Let your kids try! So much fun and “aww’s” guaranteed!
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