Celery Experiment

Materials:

1. Clear glass cup or jar

2. Fresh Celery stalks with leaves. Preferably the lighter leafier stalks near the center.

3. Water

4. Food Colouring

Directions:

1. Separate and select stalks of celery with leaves. Cut about a quarter inch off the bottom. The lighter stalks near the center will show the most color.

2. Put some water into your glass cup or jar.

3. Drop 3-4 drops of food colouring into your cup or jar.

4. Place stalks into the water and using stalk stir very gently until food coloring is dispersed evenly.

5. Have child child make a predictions about what they think will happen.

6. Check at intervals depending on availability, you will see slight results after 3 hours, significant results overnight and again at 48 hours.

7. After 48 hours. Cut the bottom of the celery and you can see where the water was transported up into the celery stem.