You’ll need at least 3 empty glasses, cups, or jars (depending on how many colors you are doing), water, food coloring, and paper towels
Choose the two colors you want to mix. We recommend using red and yellow, or blue and yellow, or red and blue as combinations. Fill two of the cups thee fourths of the way with water and add food coloring based on your desired colors to mix. Place the cups next to each other in this order: cup with food color #1, empty cup, cup with food color #2. Fold a paper towel into thirds. Stick one end of the paper towel into the colored water and one end into the empty jar. Observe what happens over the course of the next hour or two.
Thanks to capillary action the water moves or “walks” up the paper towels into the empty jar.
The middle jar fills up with water until the water levels of all the jars are equal. To speed up the process, continue to add water to the two outer cups to maintain a high water level.
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Choose the two colors you want to mix. We recommend using red and yellow, or blue and yellow, or red and blue as combinations. Fill two of the cups thee fourths of the way with water and add food coloring based on your desired colors to mix. Place the cups next to each other in this order: cup with food color #1, empty cup, cup with food color #2. Fold a paper towel into thirds. Stick one end of the paper towel into the colored water and one end into the empty jar. Observe what happens over the course of the next hour or two.
Thanks to capillary action the water moves or “walks” up the paper towels into the empty jar.
The middle jar fills up with water until the water levels of all the jars are equal. To speed up the process, continue to add water to the two outer cups to maintain a high water level.
Connect with us on Facebook and share pictures and observations of your experiment!
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