Color Mixing—Ice Melt

Materials

Ice-cube tray
Red food coloring
Blue food coloring
Ziploc bag (quart size)

Color MixDirections

Fill an ice-cube tray with water.  Invite your child to place a drop of food coloring in each section of the tray; for half the tray, use red, in the other half, use blue.  Freeze. Once the water has turned to ice, invite your child to place 1 or 2 cubes each of red and blue ice into a Ziploc bag. Place the bag on a surface where your child can observe what happens as the ice begins to melt. What color is the water from the melted ice?

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