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Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom, 

lived a beautiful princess who loved to 

garden. One day, while she was gardening, 

she realized that none of her plants were 

blooming. The wise old owl told her that her soil 

was too acidic. 

“What does acidic mean?” asked the 

princess. “It means it contains properties 

of an acid, and it's pH is below 7,” replied 

the wise owl. He explained to the princess 

that if she were to taste an acid, it would 

have a sour, or sharp-taste to it. He then sent 

her to the old cat to get seven mysterious 

solutions, and told her to look for the most 

neutral solution, and pour it on her plants. 

When the princess got to the market, she found the cat 

who gave her seven strange solutions. Suddenly, the 

cat disappeared before the princess could ask any 

questions. Feeling frustrated, she sat down and cried. 

Suddenly the princess heard a strange noise, and a 

fairy appeared! 

“Why are you crying?” asked the fairy. “Well,” said the 

princess, “I need to find out which solution is neutral, 

and I don’t know how to do it!”   The fairy calmed down 

the little princess and pulled out 7 strips of red paper 

and 7 strips of blue paper. “This is called litmus paper.” 

explained the kind fairy.   “The red litmus paper stays 

red in an acid, but turns blue in a base, but the blue 

paper turns red in an acid and stays blue in a base.”

“Use both papers in each solution so that you know for 

sure which one is an acid, and which one is a base. If 

it is a neutral solution, neither paper will change 

colors.” said the fairy. 

“But what is a base?” asked the confused princess. 

The fairy replied, “A base has a pH greater than 7, if 

you tasted it, it would taste bitter, and it feels 

slippery, like soap." The fairy added, "A neutral 

solution, the one you are looking for, has a pH of 7. ” 

After that, the fairy flew away and the princess walked 

back to her garden to test the solutions. 

The princess lined up all of her mystery solutions, and 

labeled them 1-7. She then put a red and blue litmus 

paper in each cup. She watched carefully to see what 

color each paper turned, and recorded all of her 

findings on a chart. As she watched, she noticed that 

the paper was changing color! In the first cup, the red 

paper stayed red, but the blue paper turned red! She 

knew that meant that the solution was an acid and 

had a pH below 7. In the second cup, both papers 

turned blue. She knew that meant it was a base. In 

the third and fourth cup, both papers were red. On 

her chart, she wrote that solutions 3 and 4 were 

acids. 

When the princess checked to see if the fifth solution 

was an acid or a base, she noticed that neither of 

the papers in the solution had changed colors. She 

recorded her data on her chart. She then looked at 

the litmus paper in solutions six and seven. She 

noticed that both solutions had turned the red litmus 

paper blue, and kept the blue litmus paper blue. She 

knew that they must be bases. The princess looked 

back at solution number five and remembered that 

the fairy told her that if neither paper changes, it is 

a neutral solution. The princess jumped with joy!! 

She had found the neutral solution!! 

The princess poured the neutral solution, with 

a pH of 7, over her flowers and they began to 

bloom! She was so excited that her flowers 

had been saved.

To perform an experiment like the princess's you 

will need:

7 Mysterious Solutions

7 Blue Litmus Papers

7 Red Litmus Papers

Tee's Adventure

Once upon a time there lived a white t-shirt named 

Tee. Tee lived in a village with other white t-shirts. 

Everything in the village was either white or black, 

including the houses, the grass, the sky, and even 

the sun. Tee had read once about something called 

“color.” He had never seen it, but was determined 

to find color and bring it back to his village.  

Tee decided to ask his best friend, Boxer, if he knew 

anything about colors. Boxer confirmed that colors do 

exist, and said that one way to bring them back to his 

village was with chemical reactions. He told Tee that 

there were four types of chemical reactions and that 

Tee needed to go to Andalasia, a world with color, to 

find out about all of the reactions. He told Tee that 

while in Andalasia, he would meet a bird, mouse, tiger, 

and pig. Each animal would tell him about a different 

kind of chemical reaction. After he knows about all of 

them, he can go see the grasshopper who will give him 

what he needs to bring color home. He then took Tee to 

the magical land called Andalasia. 

Tee couldn’t believe his eyes! There was color everywhere! 

Shortly after arriving, Tee saw a bird. He ran up to the bird 

and asked if he knew what one of the chemical reactions is. 

The bird smiled and said “Of course! There is a kind of 

chemical reaction called synthesis. It is when two elements 

combine to make one compound.” Tee was confused. 

“What do you mean?” he asked. The bird took two 

hydrogen atoms from a container and mixed them with one 

oxygen atom. They combined to make water. The bird 

explained that the two elements, hydrogen and oxygen, 

combined to create a compound. This was a synthesis 

reaction. Tee was so excited to learn about a chemical 

reaction. He wrote it down in his journal and continued to 

walk.

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