It's science experiment time!

Monkey-Moo was still getting over his chicken pox when Science week started at school. Monkey-Moo was a little upset at the prospect of missing out on any experiment fun that might be had so I promised him we'd do a little experiment of our own to make up for it.

A simple enough experiment to do with little monkeys.

You will need:

• Three glasses
• Two different food colourings (we used red and blue- as I didn't have yellow)
• Two paper towels
• Water

Experiment:

• Fill two glasses with exactly the same amount of water.
• Add Blue food colouring to one glass and Red to the other.
• Line up the three glasses with the empty one in the middle.
• Roll up a paper towel and place one end in the empty glass and one in the Blue water. Repeat the process with the Red water and empty glass.
• Now wait and watch as the coloured water travels up the paper towels and into the glass in the middle.

 

You should find that all three glasses end up with exactly the same amount of water, and fun for Monkeys is seeing what colour the water ends up in the middle glass (see we crossed over into some art related education with this one- mixing colours)

 

The best part of setting up the experiment for Monkey-Moo was seeing that little Monkey-Moo was just as interested in what was going to happen. It kept them both entertained, interested and most importantly quiet for some time. (it does take a while for the water to travel into the middle glass- so I do suggest setting it up and then leaving for a few hours)

 

Embracing Science week our little Scientist Monkey-Moo wrote out an experiment report to take to school and share with his class. Happy Monkey!