Rainbow Skittles

Age Range: 4-11

Equipment needed:Pack of skittles, Hot water, White plate

 

Adult supervision required 

 

Rainbow Skittles

On this post, I will be showing how to make an awesome skittles rainbow effect. You can also alternatively watch the video at the bottom of the page to see how to do this activity. This is a great DIY skittles experiment that parents can do with their kids and is a very colourful science project that is great to watch! You can make a tons of designs and a bunch of colourful combinations.

To make your rainbow skittles, you'll need:

• White Plate 

White plate brings a good background when making the rainbow and you can clearly see the colours joining together.

• A pack of Skittles or M&Ms

• Jug of Hot Water

Hot water works best instead of cold water as the sugar in the skittles dissolves more quickly in the hot water rather than in cold water. This is due to their being more molecules in hot water which helps dissolve the skittles more quickly and the colours to come out very quickly as well.

To get hot water, open your hot water tap for 5 seconds and after that time, pour the hot water into a jug. A kettle won't be needed as you won't need boiling water. To check if you have hot water, hold your hand over the jug of hot water and if you can feel the heat radiate onto your hand, you have hot water. However, if you do the same method and you cannot feel any heat radiate on to your hand, then most likely you will have have cold or room temperature water.

 

To make rainbow skittles:

Open up your skittles and place them on your plate  

 

Arrange your skittles all around the edge

Pour just enough hot water to cover the plate and look what happens

  

And there you have it, your own skittles rainbow effect

  

Here’s some other patterns you can try with your skittles

 

Watch the video to see how to make your own rainbow skittles:

 

 

Thanks guys and hope you enjoyed the post today. Be sure to leave a comment on how you found making your own rainbow skittles as well as any other patterns you have made and be sure to check out some of my other blog posts. 😊