{"id":1076,"date":"2009-03-29T09:38:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T16:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2009-11-27T21:15:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T04:15:10","slug":"colorful-celery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"Colorful Celery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;\">Watch how water spreads through a plant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0celery stalk with leaves<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a02 cups<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0water<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0red and blue food coloring<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0knife <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;\">Make a cut up the center of the celery. (Only parents should use the knife!) Start at the bottom and go about halfway up so the celery has two &#8220;legs.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0Fill each cup with water. Put several drops of blue food coloring in one cup. Put red food coloring in the other cup. \u00c2\u00a0Place one celery &#8220;leg&#8221; in each cup. \u00c2\u00a0Let the celery sit overnight. \u00c2\u00a0What does the celery look like in the morning? What color are the leaves? Explain to your child that the water traveled from the bottom of the plant to the top. That way water gets to every part of the plant that needs it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0supports observation skills<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0shows how water moves in plants<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch how water spreads through a plant. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0celery stalk with leaves \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a02 cups \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0water \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0red and blue food coloring \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0knife Make a cut up the center of the celery. (Only parents should use the knife!) Start at the bottom and go about halfway up so the celery has two &#8220;legs.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0Fill each cup with water. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,16,15,9,44],"tags":[338,298,402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3135,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/3135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}