{"id":2271,"date":"2020-06-02T10:11:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T09:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2020-06-02T10:11:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T09:11:48","slug":"trythistuesday-colourful-flower-bouquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/2020\/06\/02\/trythistuesday-colourful-flower-bouquet\/","title":{"rendered":"#TryThisTuesday: Colourful Flower Bouquet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week, Street Scientist, Ailie, showed us how to make a colour wheel with kitchen roll<\/a>. Now we’re going to use that same technique to create a colourful bunch of paper flowers.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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How can we use the process of capillary action, and the coloured water we made last week<\/a>, to do something creative? First, you need to make 6 flower heads out of kitchen roll by folding and cutting as below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. First fold the sheet in half to make a rectangle.<\/li>
  2. Fold the rectangle in half to make a square.<\/li>
  3. The fold the square in half diagonally to make a triangle.<\/li>
  4. Fold the triangle in half again.<\/li>
  5. Cut the top of the small triangle into a round petal shape<\/li>
  6. Unfold the sheet to reveal your flower.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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