Materials:

• Paper-White

• Markers

• Water bottle

• Coffee Filter

Instructions:

• Place a coffee filter over your white sheet of paper

• Draw a circle on a coffee filter

• Continue drawing outer circles around each one

• Once you're done drawing the circles start to spray your drawing with water

• Watch as the color start to bleed

• You can remove the coffee filter or you can let it set over night to capture your painting on the white sheet of paper

• Take a picture and share it on class dojo!

Materials

• Paper towel

• Markers

• Water

• Bowl

Instructions

• Use the markers to draw the beginning of a rainbow

• On the edge of the paper towel you will be coloring different colored squares

• Fill your bowl with water

• Dip the colored edge of your paper towel into the bowl

• Watch as the colors start to climb up the paper towel

• Take a picture & post it on Class Dojo for points!

Notes

• Why does the colored water absorb into the paper towels?

• Research more capillary action experiments for kids

Materials

• Black pepper

• Water

• Dish washing liquid

• Bowl

Instructions

• Pour water into a plate or bowl

• Shake some pepper onto the water's surface

• Dip your finger into the pepper and water (Nothing much will happen)

• However, if you put a drop of dish washing liquid on your finger and then dip it into the pepper and water the pepper will rush to the outer edges of the dish

Materials

• Milk

• Food coloring

• Dishwashing liquid

• Cotton swab

• Bowl

Instructions

• Pour enough milk onto a plate to cover the bottom

• Drop food coloring into the milk

• Dip a cotton swab in dish washing detergent liquid

• Touch the coated swab to the milk in the center of the plate

• Don't stir the milk; it isn't necessary. The colors will swirl on their own as soon as the detergent contacts the liquid