color changing lemonade

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While looking through my "Summer" Pinterest folder today, I remembered that I wanted to make this lemonade with the kids sometime soon. This is a fun science experiment and kitchen project. You make a bright blue liquid by steeping butterfly pea flowers in water, and then add it to lemonade. When the liquid reacts with the acid in the lemonade, it turns from blue to pink. You can also freeze the blue liquid into ice cubes and add them to the lemonade, causing the lemonade to slowly change its color as the ice cubes melt. I ordered the flowers from Amazon today, so we'll be testing this out soon. Doesn't it look fun? Who remembers doing similar experiments as a kid, only with boiled red cabbage water? Photo credit goes to Left Brain Craft Brain, which is also where I've found the directions for the lemonade. https://leftbraincraftbrain.com/ada-twist-color-changing-lemonade-lab/