SUPPLIES:

•Full Fat Milk

•Liquid Food Coloring
•Dish Soap
•Cotton Swabs

STEP 1: Start pouring your

whole milk into a shallow
dish or flat bottom
surface. You don’t need a
lot of milk, just enough to
cover the bottom and then
some.

STEP 2: Next, you want to

fill the top of the milk with
drops of food coloring! Use
as many different colors as you like.

STEP 3: Pour a small amount of dish soap into a separate

bowl, and touch your cotton swab tip to the dish soap to coat
it. Bring it over to your milk dish and gently touch the surface
of the milk with the soapy cotton swab!
TIP: Try a cotton swab without dish
soap first and see what happens. Talk
about what is observed, then try the
dish soap-soaked cotton swab and check
out the difference. This is a great way
to add more scientific thinking to the
activity.

HOW DOES THE MAGIC MILK

EXPERIMENT WORK?
Milk is made up of minerals, proteins, and fats. Proteins
and fats are susceptible to changes. When dish soap is
added to the milk, the soap molecules run around and
try to attach to the fat molecules in the milk.

However, you wouldn’t see this change happen without

the food coloring! The food coloring looks like fireworks
because it’s getting bumped around, a color explosion.

The soap lowers the surface tension of the milk. When

the soap molecules head for the fats, they form
spherical micelles. This causes movement and creates
cool bursts and swirls of color. After all the fat
molecules have been found and equilibrium has been
reached, there is no more movement.

+) Add a cookie cutter too!!!!