Today, Room 2 have set up an experiment investigating how water is transported through a plant. We are particularly looking at whether different temperatures affects this. We are using celery and food dye and we will be measuring how much water is lost over 24 hours. However, you can do a similar experiment at home where you can watch to see if a plain white flower can change colour and if so, how dark does it become?

If you want to try this at home, you will need:

• White flowers such as carnations or celery with the leaves on.
• 100 ml of water
• 5 tablespoons of food dye (dark colours work best)
• Slightly, split the stem as this helps with water transportation or split the stem and put each side in a different colour. Can you create a multi coloured flower?

Have a go and see what happens. If you are successful, please take a photograph and either email or send it in so we can have a look!