Magic Moving Milk

Here's an easy science experiment you can get together quickly with supplies you already have at home. 

I saw the idea here: http://laughingkidslearn.com/2014/08/magic-milk-science-experiment.html/

Supplies: shallow bowl or dish, good colouring, dish soap, milk

First, pour milk in the dish. You don't need too much, as long as the bottom of the dish is completely covered. Next, take the food colouring and drop a bunch of each colour into the milk. I recommend aiming for a finished product with 1/4 of the surface white and 3/4 of the surfaced coloured. 

Monkey wanted to use the neon colours of food colouring today because it has both of our favourite colours in it, pink and blue. So thoughtful!

Now the best part! Take your dish soap and squeeze one drop into the middle of the mixture. Pay attention, the reaction happens really fast! Here it is after dropping in the dish soap:

The scientific explanation for this reaction is a little above Monkey's head (see the link above for more information) so we just watched how cool it was when the colours mixed all together. Here it is after about one minute: 

After a minute of watching, Monkey waned to shake the dish. It made a yucky purple-y brown-y colour. Definitely better before it's all mixed up!

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