Science
07th March 2016
Demonstrate this simple but amazing blooming flower, science activity before letting the children have a go themselves.
As the paper absorbs the water it spreads through the folded petals by ‘capillary action’. The absorbed water makes the fibres in the paper swell and this swelling causes the folded petals of the flower to open up.
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