Kitten's First Full Moon--Color Changing Milk

Today we enjoyed the wonderful picture book, Kitten's First Full Moon.
Little kitten sees the full moon for the first time, and thinks it is a beautiful bowl of milk.
While reading it I wanted to have the kids do a project that could be tied into the story.
I thought of Steven Spangler's experiment Color changing milk.
A very simple experiment with great results.
You need:
2% or whole milk
plates
food coloring
q-tips
Dawn dish detergent
Pour the milk onto the plates and let is sit and settle.
This is a great time to practice lapping milk like a kitten.
Carefully drop one color of food coloring into the milk, trying not to "mix" it up.

Dip the q-tip into the Dawn dish detergent

Dip the q-tip into the milk and watch the wonderful swirling colors.....

The first "dip"!

I love the looks on the kids faces as they did this---it works over and over.

Try not to mix the milk though, or it will all turn gray.

I hope you enjoy this sideways video....sorry about that!

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