How can you separate a mixure?

Our 5 year olds know what a mixture is. To make a mixture you have to mix together 2 or more different things. They made fruit salad by mixing together many different pieces of fruit. This mixture was easy to separate back into the different parts but for some mixtures this is not so easy.

Look at the different ways we found for separating mixtures.

Sorting


Sieving


Filtering