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title: "Not all Experiments go to plan!"
url: "https://westlancs.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2023-11-10-17-52-15-not-all-experiments-go-to-plan"
school: "West Lancashire Community High School"
---

# Not all Experiments go to plan!

  ![Image of Not all Experiments go to plan!](https://files.schudio.com/west-lancashire-community-high-school/images/blog/IMG_0855.jpeg)  10 November 2023

With Bonfire night in mind KS4 Humanities experimented with food colouring, milk & washing up liquid to create an explosion of colour to look like a firework.

We learned that even when following step by step instructions the type of food colouring used was very important as this impacted the results… our fireworks looked like a big muddle of colour after many attempts.

### Not all experiments go to plan!

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