Learn how to make celery change color with this fun experiment.

Materials:

  • Celery with tops
  • Food coloring
  • Cups
  • Knife with parents’ permission and supervision

Steps:

1. Start by pulling apart your celery

2. Pick the number of pieces you want to use depending on how many colors you want to use

3. Next with your parents’ permission and supervision, cut the tops of your celery to fit in your cup, you can eat the rest of the celery as a snack and even make ants on a log!

4. Next add water to your cups about halfway

5. Add your food coloring to each cup

6. Place your celery inside

7. Let your celery sit in a bright area and watch as the color starts to change over the next few hours

1 hour

2 hours

3 hours

Overnight

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24 hours

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Which colors changed the best for you?