Paper towel experiment

This magic paper towel art will blow your child's mind. As if by magic you can make pictures or colours appear by placing a paper towel in water. How is this possible you ask, is it magic or is it science? Whatever it is this surprise drawing activity is definitely fun!

This colorful grow a rainbow experiment will amaze your kids! Learn how to grow a rainbow within minutes by using paper towels, markers, and two cups of water.

Fynn Sor | Happy Tot Shelf on Instagram: "🐛✨ Watch these caterpillars grow right before your eyes! 💫 What’s the science behind this experiment? 💫 Paper towels are mostly made of cellulose, a material that loves water. When you add water, the cellulose fibres soak it up through capillary action, causing the paper towel to expand. 🤩 Want more kid-friendly science experiments? Comment ‘Science’ and I’ll send you our list of easy and fun science experiments for preschoolers – perfect for…

This Paper Towel Dye Experiment is a super quick and easy to prep experiment perfectly fun for toddlers and preschoolers! #dyeexperiment #kidsactivities

Shahzia 𖦹 Learn through play 𖦹 STEAM Play 𖦹 Early Childhood on Instagram: "This 🐛 paper towel experiment is so cool to watch and make! Watch the caterpillar wiggle and grow as it drinks water. This is a fantastic activity that can be an extension to the “The very hungry little caterpillar”, one of our favorite books. How it works: Paper towels are made of ground-up plant material. If you look through a microscope at a torn-up piece of paper (or look up some images on the Internet), you…

Arwa Saif | my_busy_kid on Instagram: "SCIENCE FACTS - Capillary action allows the colors from the markers to walk across the paper towel to form a rainbow . Tips to make this experiment successful- 1. Use only washable i.e water soluble color markers , permanent markers will not work 2. Color the ends very nicely for it to work 3. Keep the water cups closer to each other 4. Take only half length if paper , it makes the rainbow faster SHARE if with your friends because this science…

The Creative Kids’ Corner on Instagram: "🌈 Rainbow Experiment 🌈 How fun is this rainbow experiment! Just color the ends of a paper towel with washable markers and place them into a cup of water. Then watch as the colors flow up the rainbow through capillary action. Would you give this simple science experiment a try? #kidsexperiment #scienceexperiment #scienceexperimentsforkids #kidscience #scienceforkids #rainbowexperiment #activitiesforkids #kidsactivities"

This is a simple and inexpensive paper towel experiment idea on colors and absorbency through bleeding tissue/ paper towel/ capillary action. Fun for kids.

Sally on Instagram: "Easy Rainbow Science Experiment This was such an engaging but simple experiment that we ended up doing over and over again. I started out by colouring rainbows on either end of a strip of kitchen towel using our @crayola_uk super tips. We then put the coloured ends of the kitchen towel into two small glasses of water, and watched the ink rise up the paper. Jessica loved watching this. Jessica was then keen to create her own patterns on the paper towel, and she repeated t