Food Coloring Flowers

by Marie on May 22, 2008

Whenever we had white flowers in the house growing up, I’d give them the food coloring treatment. It’s always fascinating to see how this process works with the flowers. I’ve found the Carnation flower works best for this cool science project.

I bought a $4 bunch of white carnations at the local Walmart. Then we got out our flower vases ready with water. Don’t use the flower food it may come with, I did once and it didn’t work as well. Then pour in about 10 or so drops of your desired food color. We chose blue for the big bunch and tried a little red one too. I only used about 5-6 drops of red color for the small vase. Cut your flower stems off a few inches and place in the water.

It only took a few hours before we were seeing a hint of blue. By the next morning, the colors were all throughout the flower. They made a pretty border in blue and red.

My kids loved it and were amazed when the white flowers started to gain a touch of color. We have also done this project with food, celery works great. It’s fun to watch science in action.

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1 Amanda May 7, 2009 at 3:28 pm

it just soooooo pretty!!!! *——–* r-o-b-o-t-!!!! tee hee!!!

2 Johaanne May 7, 2009 at 5:39 pm

That was totally cool I got a+ thanks ALOTT!!!!!!!!

3 Victoria*woopwoop* May 7, 2009 at 5:44 pm

THATS SO KOOL HOPE YOU MAKE SOME MORE THANKSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!=]

4 Kaila May 8, 2009 at 8:51 am

thats so cool any one could do that so easy but anyways thats cool thanks alot for the project

5 Kaila May 8, 2009 at 8:51 am

thats so cool any one could do that so easy but anyways thats cool

6 lemonade96 May 28, 2009 at 9:23 am

OMG im doing this for a science project i better get a A++ i love this project it looks reaaly easy n fun!!! where did u get the idea its really cool i wonder what else u can do!!! THXXXXXXXXX LOTS!

7 Lan-nae-nae May 28, 2009 at 9:25 am

omg ilvethis thxx lots im doing this for my science project its reallly cool where did u come up this this n how do u do celery???????? n i wonder what else u can do!!! OMG i better get a A+++ itsw super sweeeet ekk it looks so muchys FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!hehehehehehehhehehehehhehehhehehhe

8 Gayathiri October 14, 2009 at 2:17 am

can you please get a different and hard science experiment
this experiment is good but everyone can do this
so please i really needed immediately
please sent it to my email address
thank you so much and if you help me i would really apprecite this

9 emily October 26, 2009 at 6:17 pm

i have to do this for my science fair project and my dad does it for a living

10 Jallie October 29, 2009 at 7:16 pm

I am using this for my science project, but I used food coloring.. :( It took me a week and 5 days to finish this, The red one is still alive, but no food color into it’s stems. The green one is shrived up and just died along with the blue one, but the green did not work, and the blue was only the slightist bit on the tips… Yours looks sooooo pretty, I know now that I shouldn’t use food coloring… :(
Well…. thanks! :P d: :D :) :j :] [: (: :O] :o]
Jallie

11 sonia guzman ortega November 5, 2009 at 3:05 pm

I am doing this science fair project too. And I think its pretty cool!!!

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