🎨Cabbage Indicator Tie Dyeing

🎨Cabbage Indicator Tie DyeingAt Discovery we love putting the Arts in STEAM!Last week, Anita discovered how we can create our own pH indicator using the humble red cabbage. We had a fair amount of indicator left over, so we got creative and used the different colours produced in our experiment to create a tie dyed lab coat*!!Follow on with Anita as she creates a cabbage indicator masterpiece, and explores the science that lends itself to dyeing cotton. For your very own experiment card, and more experiments, activities and challenges you can try at home or school, head to www.unediscoveryvoyager.org.au/resources/*only safe pH colours were used to dye the textile (lemon juice, vinegar and bicarb soda).

Posted by UNE Discovery on Tuesday, July 14, 2020
At Discovery we love putting the Arts in STEAM!
 
Last week, Anita discovered how we can create our own pH indicator using the humble red cabbage. We had a fair amount of indicator left over, so we got creative and used the different colours produced in our experiment to create a tie dyed lab coat*!!
 
Follow on with Anita as she creates a cabbage indicator masterpiece, and explores the science that lends itself to dyeing cotton.
 
Keen to play along at home? Click on the link below for your very own experiment card.
 
*only safe pH colours were used to dye the textile (lemon juice, vinegar and bicarb soda).
Tie Dyeing Experiment Card