What Color Are Leaves?
What You Will Need: • A few green leaves from 3 different kinds of trees • 3 small drinking glasses • Rubbing alcohol • Plastic wrap • A pan of hot tap water • Coffee filters or filter paper • Scissors • Tape • 3 pencils What To Do: • Tear the leaves into small pieces. Put the pieces from each tree into different glasses (make sure each glass only has pieces from one type of tree!). • Get an adult to pour rubbing alcohol into each glass so that all the leaf pieces are covered. • Put a piece of plastic wrap over the top of each glass to keep the alcohol from evaporating (getting soaked up by the air). • Let an adult set the glasses in the pan of hot water and leave them for about 30 minutes. Check to make sure the alcohol in each glass has turned green before you take them out. If it hasn’t, refill the pan with hot water and put the glasses back in until the alcohol turns green. • While you wait, cut 3 strips out of the middle of the coffee filters. Make each strip about 1 inch wide. Ta
