 Welcome back to Kids Fun Science. My name is Ken. Today's experiment is leaf chromatography. It's a really fun experiment with leaves and I'm going to show you how to do it in just a second. But first, what you really need is to gather a whole bunch of green leaves from around your neighborhood. You know, a whole bunch of different trees. Maples seem to work the best. You need a beaker or a drinking glass, a clear one. Bowls, hot water, so adult supervision, have boiling water. Some rubbing alcohol and coffee filters. And I'll show you how it's done. So I gathered about eight different types of leaves. Some multiple different green leaves to some of the color changes that we're seeing here in Northern California. One started to change a little bit. There's a green. There's some yellows. Some different color reds. A little mixture of all colors. So we're going to see how this experiment goes and we're going to start the setup. So take the leaves and you cut them up or tear them up into small pieces. I just use scissors. Once you have them cut up, you can smash them like I'm doing. You don't have to. That's optional. And then once you get that going, you're going to take your leaves and put it into a small glass or into like I have small little beakers. And once you get that put there, then you're going to take your rubbing alcohol. I have 50%. That's just what I had in the house. You probably want to use, you could use 71 or 90, whatever you have around the house. 50 work great for me. You just want to fill it up just enough so it's covering the leaves. So don't put a lot of leaves in. Then adult supervision. I boiled some water. This is very hot water. You're going to put your beaker or glass inside the bowls and then you're going to pour the hot water around the outside of the glass or beaker and just high enough to cover that rubbing alcohol in the leaves. Now, a little side, you can put saran wrap or plastic over each beaker or glass to hold in the rubbing alcohol from absorbing. I did not do that and it came out fine. You're going to wait 30 minutes now in the hot water. And then after that, you could cut your coffee filters into about one inch, two inch strips. Put them into the beakers. Mine just stood straight up. Most times you hang them. I didn't have to hang them. I stood them straight up. And you can see the results here. Each leaf and the color of the head is giving off, which I think is pretty incredible. Some of the red, you see a little bit of the brown in there still, which is kind of cool because there was no brown there. That one had a little bit of mixture and you can see the little bit of the colors breaking out as it went up. And then here again, a red, but it actually had a little green on the back side. You see the green towards the bottom, but mostly the red and pink in there. And then this is my favorite one here. It's green leaf. It's a snowball bush. But it has greens, yellows all the way to like a brownish. That was my favorite one out of all of them. And then here you can see it just came out to like a yellowish brown. Every leaf is unique and different. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this experiment. If you did, please subscribe as I do. Try to do weekly experiments and to click thumbs up. It really does help. Thank you very much for watching.