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Simple Blooming Flowers Capillary Action Experiment (free template)

ByBeth Gorden

This simple blooming flowers preschool science experiment is so simple and COOL your kids will hardly realize they are learning! In this flower experiment, children will learn about capillary action for kids! Simply print flower template and grab some water to watch this magical capillary action experiment perfect for toddler, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students. This clever twist on the walking water experiment is sure to be a hit with your young learners.

This simple blooming flowers preschool science experiment is so simple and COOL your kids will hardly realize they are learning! In this flower experiment, children will learn about capillary action for kids! Simply print flower template and grab some water to watch this magical capillary action experiment perfect for toddler, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students. This clever twist on the walking water experiment is sure to be a hit with your young learners. 

Capillary action experiment with flowers

Amaze your toddlers, preschoolers, kindegartners, and grade 1 students with this magical blooming flowers capillary action experiment for kids! This super SIMPLE experiment only needs our flower template, markers, and water to make a walking water science experiment. But what will captivate your students is the beauty and wonder of watching the flowers bloom, like water lilies during the summer. This science experiment for preschoolers is a great way to introduce kids to the wonder of science and help them get ecited to learn. Add this flower experiment to your flower theme, spring theme, or summer learning at preschool summer camp. Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will LOVE this beautiful capillary action experiment.

Flower Printable

Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> _____ <<. The flowers template pdf file will open in a new window for you to save the freebie and print the template.

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blooming flower experiment explanation

Start by printing the flowers.

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Next color them in rich, bold colors using markers. Then cut out the flowers carefully.

HINT: If you want to surprise your students do this part ahead of time so they just get to witness the opening of the flowers magically for the first time!

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Carefully fold each of the petals towards the center and crease well. Repeat with all the flowers you desire. You won’t be able to see the flowers; they are like flowers that close at night like water lilies.

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Put a bowl or container of water on a surface and place each flower in the water. We tinted our water blue to make the colors POP!

Capillary Action for Kids

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The flower will start to slowly open.

If you use regular printer paper this happens at a nice, not-to-fast pace. If you use cardstock it will take a while. Tissue paper would go even quicker.

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If you use regular printer paper this happens at a nice, not-to-fast pace. If you use cardstock it will take a while. Tissue paper would go even quicker.

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The flower will open petal by petal until it is a pretty flower floating on the water.

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Capillary action flowers

Repeat with additional flowers. You can do one at a time to watch the process unravel or do them all at once for a stunning flower show.

Spring Science

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HINT: Write a note on the inside of the flowers for your kids to watch appear!

Walking Water Science Experiment

Blooming flower experiment explanation

So this is pretty and all, but are you sure it’s a science experiment? Sure is!

The reason the pretty paper flowers magically bloom when in the water is because of a scientific term called capillary action! Perhaps you’ve tried one of our other capillary action experiments (walking water), pollution capillary action experiment, or this flower science experiment. If not, make sure you check them out! There are tiny gaps between the tiny wood fibers that make up paper. These spaces allow liquid or air to pass through. Water molecules are “sticky,” meaning that they like to stay close together as well as adhere to other substances.When you place the paper flowers in the water (or H20) the water immediatly adheres to the wall of the vessels and begins to travel to the rest of the paper, dragging the other water molecules along. As the paper absorbs more and more water, the creases flatten out. As a result, the flower petals unfold. So although science does appear like magic many times as you mix substances and make rocket science experiment that fly, it can all be explained and replicated – that’s what makes it SCIENCE!

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Plant Activities

Spring is a great time to dive into this beautiful and fun spring science project! This flower science experiment is an flower craft, flower activity, and flower science all mixed into one amazing Flower STEM activity! This flower activity for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade allows children to make and grow their own flower crystals. This is a fun spring activity for kids! plant activities for preschoolers Looking for a fun spring science experiment, a flower activity for preschoolers, or a summer science project to add to your summer bucket list? This pretty flower chromatography is such a simple flower experiment that will engage toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders too. grass head activity for kindergarten

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Plant Printables

After a long, dreary winter nothing says spring like pretty blooming flower bulbs! One of my favorite spring flowers are hyacinth because they are not only pretty, but they smell amazing too! This pretty hyacinth craft is not only a beautiful flower craft, but it is SUPER easy too! This flower craft for preschool, toddler, pre-k, and kindergarten uses a couple common materials and gift bows! This lovely spring craft for preschoolers is bound to be one of your new favorite flower activities.  One of my favorite summer flower are pretty Zinnias. They come in so many colors and variteties, but all of them are bright, cheery, and filled with lots of petals. This cute Zinnia flower craft is a fun way to help kids take notice of the many types of flowers in our world. Plus, this flower craft for preschool, toddler, kindergarten, pre-k, and first graders uses a kid favorite technique - fingerprint painting! So add this pretty fingerprint flowers project to your summer bucket list, flower theme, or rainy day activity; kids of all ages will love making these fingerprint art ideas.  delphinium flower craft for kids  Make a beautiful spring tulip craft while recycling an old egg cartoon in this fun flower craft for kids. This tulip craft for kids is fun for all ages from preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and up.  This is such a fun tulip craft idea to make a pretty bouquet of tulips for a mother's day craft or simply a flower craft for a spring craft for kids or flower theme.

Flower Crafts

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Flower Printables

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Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of Preschool Play and Learn. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! Beth is also the creator of 123Homeschool4Me.com and kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com where she shares more than 100,000 pages of FREE worksheets,& educational ideas for PreK-8th grade.

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