GIVE ME SOME COLOR: Magic-milk color experiment

Okay. So I have been guilty of being little lazy for the past few days weeks. But even being lazy is a luxury with a 4-year-old at home, you know. My little daughter would not just settle for a "Lazy Mommy" anymore. And off I went to entertain her.

The festival of colors-HOLI just got over this weekend. So we were going to do something with colors today. When my daughter was younger we had done many of the common color activities, sorting, color play-doh, and so many other things. But this year in kindergarten she learnt the concept of the "three PRIMARY COLORS", so we decided to work on enhancing that learning. 

This experiment with milk is so popular over the internet that we decided to try it at home. Very simple, just a few common household ingredients and loads of entertainment.

Ingredients:
Milk
Dish washing soap
Food colors
Thats it....

Here we go.

Finally after the multiple attempts and various hues of colors, I was let go to be lazy again.

So there it is , a really simple and amazing experiment to witness a rainbow of colors.
The younger ones would just love to see the magic.
The kindergartners would love seeing the PRIMARY COLORS create so many colors. 
And for the older kids, lets talk about why it happens.

• The first ingredient milk (whole milk) has fat among its contents.
• Soap is a surfactant, that disrupts the surface tension of milk and reacting with the fat molecules.
• The colors help us visualize what actually happens. 

This link has more of the science aspect www.dow.com-Milk-Rainbow.

For now I will just stick with the PRIMARY COLORS and the other colors that can be formed with them. 

So the final question to my daughter on what she understood for the day.

And she replied, matter-of-factly, "the three primary colors make 615 more colors??!!!!"

Now I do not know what is the significance of that number. ;-)

FARZ

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