Red Cabbage Experiment 💡ages 5 💡Red cabbage juice can be used as an indicator to test if a liquid is an acid or a base. If added to a base it will turn blue or green and if added to an acid it will turn red. To make the cabbage juice, cut up a leaf of red cabbage into small pieces and blend with some water until it’s liquified. Then pour through a strainer to separate the juice from the pulp. Now the juice is ready. We added about a tablespoon of cabbage juice to the following: baking soda, su

Today we made our own red cabbage pH indicator, and the kids were obsessed with how the colors kept changing! 🧪💜✨ I simply poured hot water over a few red cabbage leaves and let them sit. The purple pigment slowly released into the water — and that pigment works as a natural pH indicator! We tested a bunch of different liquids: 🌸 vinegar 🍋 diluted lemon juice 💧 tap water 🥤 seltzer ⚪️ dissolved baking soda 🧼 diluted bleach Each one has a different pH, so the moment our cabbage indicator to