white carnationsgreen food coloringwatervase(s)
baby’s breath or other “filler” plant materialsribbons (optional)
Add several drops of green food coloring to water in a jar or vase. Make a fresh cut in lower part of the stem of each carnation, and place in the green water. Within a few hours, the flowers will have absorbed the green coloration via the stem and the veins of the petals. These can also be combined with daisies or other white flowers and fashioned into corsages or boutonnieres. It’s true you can buy the flowers already green, but what would be the fun of that? For the youngest children, it is a science project of sorts, and while perhaps not nifty and new enough to wow the judges at the science fair, it is still fun to do at home.
