Colour changing milk experiment
Colour changing milk experiment
What happens when food colouring, milk and detergent come together
Materials Required
- Wide shallow bowl, large lid or shallow container
- Milk―1 cup
- Detergent
- Food dye
- Skewer, cotton bud, stick or toothpick
- Gloves (for food dye)
Play experience profile
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Ages:
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Min Playtime15 - 30 Minutes
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Skills
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Energy LevelQuiet Play
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Messiness Rating
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EYLF Outcomes
Play Experience Preparation
Source all your ingredients - Gather materialsExperience Steps
- Set up your ingredients and source a bowl/plate.
- Add about 1-2 cm (deep) milk to bowl/plate.
- Add a few drops of food dye into the milk.
- Then add a few drops of dishwashing detergent and watch what happens!
- Use the skewer/stick or cotton bud to move around the dye in the milk to watch the colours merge and create new colours.
What to talk about, or questions to ask during the experience
- What is going to happen? Ask your child to predict
- What happened?
- Why did this happen?
- What happened to the colours?
- Will the same thing happen if we do it again?
Build on this...
- Other simple science experiments e.g. volcano- bi-carb/food dye/vinegar
WHO guidelines for physical activity and sedentary behaviour
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Provide evidence-based public health recommendations for children, adolescents and adults on physical activity. Learn more
Removing chairs and encouraging your child to stand while completing this experiment can reduce time spent sedentary.
EYLF Outcomes
The Early Years Learning Framework has been designed for use by early childhood educators working in partnership with families, children’s first and most influential educators.
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The Early Years Learning Framework has been designed for use by early childhood educators working in partnership with families, children’s first and most influential educators. View PDF
- Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
- Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
- Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another
EYLF Principle
Principle 1: Secure, respectful and reciprocal relationships. Through a widening network of secure relationships, children develop confidence and feel respected and valued.
EYLF Practice
Practice: Learning through play. Play can expand children’s thinking and enhance their desire to know and to learn. In these ways play can promote positive dispositions towards learning. Children’s immersion in their play illustrates how play enables them to simply enjoy being.
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