Water Movement in Plants

(Science)

We loved our walking rainbow so much. Little did we know there would be ‘colour’ theme yet we have posted it for ‘water’ theme of science on Saturday.

So this week I thought about us trying to colour cabbage leaves with coloured water. Only those blue and red were significant enough to be observed. They weren’t as contrast as I thought but the fun was all what matter.

The cabbage water movement experiment is very simple but demonstrates how plants work in a straightforward–and colourful–way.

As expected, the waiting part was the hardest. Lesson learned, I’ve prepared so many activities for Y to play with so that she could wait for the cabbage leaves to ‘drink’ more water. I explained that the leaf needs time to ‘drink’ to show their magic. We even made quite a game with straw: ‘how fast can you sip’, to simulate cabbage drinking the coloured water. Of course the was with lots of laugh and potty time in between.

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