Tuesday, June 17, 2014

The Soapy Milk Experiment

I'm trying to think of fun things to do with Brody this Summer since he thinks that I'm "so boring." So I looked up some kid science experiments. The lengths I go to to be the "cool mom."

Here are the supplies we used:

Milk (about 1 cup)
 Dish Soap (just a couple squirts)
Food coloring (a few drops of a couple different colors)



We used a pie dish but any kind of bowl will do. I had Brody drop some food coloring onto the dish. We used 4 colors just for fun.

 



Then we poured the milk in, about a cup

 


We watched as the colors blended with the milk 

 


Then we squirted in some dish soap and watched the colors go crazy! 

 


The colors were dancing in the milk/soap mixture and never stopped moving

 

I explained to Brody that the milk has fat in it and the dish soap doesn't like fat. The soap was trying to push all the fat away which made the colors dance. 

This experiment was a lot cooler than I thought it would be.