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This recipe is a little cheesy and kind of difficult.
So this is a kind of cool thing I've been working on for a while now. I've been helping out my local church with the youth studies groups to make a little extra money when I have some free time. To be completely honest this is actually an alcohol recipe I made for parties but it can be PG for a learning tool. If you take a bunch of packages of Kool-Aid of all the colors of the rainbow. (Or different colors of UV if you're an adult)
When making the Kool Aid make each of the seven colors with a different amount of sugar. 3.5 cups in the Violet, 3 in the Indigo, 2.5 in the Blue, 2 in the Green, 1.5 in the yellow, 1 in the orange, .5 in red. For the alcoholic version, simply add sugar to the vodka. Now that you have your colored drinks in different containers, you will need a pint glass or something of similar size. This isn't as effective if the glass isn't clear either.
The next part is definitely the most tricky and it's entirely possible you will mess up and have to start over. Take a small spoon, a small ladle works best and put it in the glass so that it is barely touching the bottom. Starting with the Violet, pour the Violet into the spoon and let it slowly pour over into the glass. As you pour, slowly raise the spoon, keeping it just above the fluid level. Pour until you have filled about 1/8 of the glass. Next you will take your Indigo and again, keep the spoon just above the fluid level and very, very slowly pour. Because of the density and viscosity difference in the liquids, if you pour slowly and gently, the colors won't mix. Fill about another 1/8 of the glass and repeat this process for all of the colors, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, and Red.
The results should look like a liquid rainbow in a cup. When explaining it to children, you can even talk about how the more of it you drink the sweeter it will get. (I use this as a tie in to the covenant with Noah, but it's just a sugar concentration thing really).
So this is a kind of cool thing I've been working on for a while now. I've been helping out my local church with the youth studies groups to make a little extra money when I have some free time. To be completely honest this is actually an alcohol recipe I made for parties but it can be PG for a learning tool. If you take a bunch of packages of Kool-Aid of all the colors of the rainbow. (Or different colors of UV if you're an adult)
When making the Kool Aid make each of the seven colors with a different amount of sugar. 3.5 cups in the Violet, 3 in the Indigo, 2.5 in the Blue, 2 in the Green, 1.5 in the yellow, 1 in the orange, .5 in red. For the alcoholic version, simply add sugar to the vodka. Now that you have your colored drinks in different containers, you will need a pint glass or something of similar size. This isn't as effective if the glass isn't clear either.
The next part is definitely the most tricky and it's entirely possible you will mess up and have to start over. Take a small spoon, a small ladle works best and put it in the glass so that it is barely touching the bottom. Starting with the Violet, pour the Violet into the spoon and let it slowly pour over into the glass. As you pour, slowly raise the spoon, keeping it just above the fluid level. Pour until you have filled about 1/8 of the glass. Next you will take your Indigo and again, keep the spoon just above the fluid level and very, very slowly pour. Because of the density and viscosity difference in the liquids, if you pour slowly and gently, the colors won't mix. Fill about another 1/8 of the glass and repeat this process for all of the colors, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, and Red.
The results should look like a liquid rainbow in a cup. When explaining it to children, you can even talk about how the more of it you drink the sweeter it will get. (I use this as a tie in to the covenant with Noah, but it's just a sugar concentration thing really).