Beetroot Dye

Today we are going to try to make dye using beetroot.
The method is the same as with the purple cabbage so we will need water, a pot and to boil the beetroot.

We think that beetroot will make

Flynn C., Shakyia , Ella & Daniel thinks  green
Taegyn and Brooke think red / purple
Flynn NS & Jacob think blue

We chopped up the beetroot and added the water.  We noticed that the juice coming out when we were cutting was very red - like blood.  

When we added the water before boiling the water went red too.

We dyed a piece of fabric which showed us that beetroot would colour red.

Unfortunately our colour potion has sat in the classroom over the week and has now begun to grow mould.  We have decided to let the mould keep growing to see what happens. We also want to look at the mould under the microscope.

Hopefully we will be able to take some photos of the mould and share them with you.

Jacobs handprint after cutting the beetroot!