Discrepant Event: Magic Flower

	1. Draw a flower on plain white paper and colour it in with coloured pencils or crayons.
	2. Carefully cut the flower out (the neater the better).
	3. Fold the petals over one by one (the flower will open up differently depending on the order you fold the petals.
	4. Your Magic Flower should now look like this (lame!).
	5. Pour a teaspoon of water into a saucer.
	6. Pop the Magic Flower into the water in your saucer and the petals immediately begin to open up... just like a real flower blossoming!
	7. Soon, the petals untangle and reveal the smiley face.
	8. The flower will completely open in around thirty seconds (it varies depending on the paper you used). And if that doesn’t get you a smile, nothing will.

What's going on?

Your Magic Flower is powered by a groovy scientific phenomenon called 'capillary action'. Thanks to capillary action, paper absorbs water very rapidly. When paper gets wet, it swells which causes the folded petals of your Magic Flower to open up.