Escaping Water

Water can certainly move in mysterious ways, get the water from one cup to make its way up hill and back
down into a second empty cup with the help of paper towels and an interesting scientific process. Also,
experiment with primary colors as they mix and make the secondary colors.

What you'll need:

 3 glasses (could use 5)

 Water
 Primary Food Colors
 Paper Towels

Instructions:

 Fill each glass half full or more with water. Then add yellow and blue food color to two of the glasses.
 Stir up the water to disperse the color.
 Rip a paper towel in half and the fold or twist it
 Put your paper towels going from the full glasses to the empty glass
 After time the empty glasses will fill with water transferred from the paper towels.

What's happening?

The water from the full glass moves up your paper towel into your empty glass, this process is called Capillary
Action. The water will continue to move until each glass has an equal amount of water in them. By adding the
food color, the water from each glass mixes together to make the new color.

Science at FMS Extended Day Program, Teacher Frida Azari, 12/02/2014 Page 1