How to Make Color-Changing Lemonade

This is really cool. I had never heard of butterfly pea flowers before reading this post about color-changing lemonade from Left Brain Craft Brain, but apparently they’re a thing and you can use them to turn your lemonade all sorts of brilliant colors.

I don’t know about you, but I want to do this, like, right now. Even though my kid isn’t home.

The key is a pigment in the flower that changes color with the pH of the liquid it is in, so you can make liquids ranging from blue to purple to pink. And it changes color as you stir. So fun!

This was an activity to go with Ada Twist, Scientist, which is a sweet book about experiments that don’t always go as planned. Check out the post for more info on that book if you haven’t already read it with your little scientists.

[Photo: Left Brain Craft Brain.]

Looking for more Lemonade stand props and pretend play? Check these out.

Download our free Lemon themed printable Activity Pack – Full of lemon-themed activities that you can print off. This file is available for free in our online store.

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I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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