Skip to main content Skip to navigation

Department of Chemistry

Milk Art

This experiment will use milk, food colouring and soap to create colourful swirl patterns. By using a mixture of different food colouring and soaps, complex colourful patterns can be created.

Suggested teaching points

  • Explaining how soap works
  • Surface tension
  • Investigative techniques
  • Problem solving

This file contains a set of detailed instructions, suggested questions, suggested improvements and disposal procedures for this experiment.

(PDF Document) Milk Art experiment instructions
Before attempting this experiment, please ensure that you have read the safety section in the document above and performed a complete risk assessment. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please use these forms.