Baking soda and vinegar is one of those activities that feels genuinely magical no matter how many times you have seen it.
Baking soda, white vinegar, food coloring, small cups or containers, a baking tray to catch overflow.
Set four small cups on a baking tray. Add a spoonful of baking soda to each one.
Mix different food coloring into small amounts of vinegar, one color per container.
Let your child drop vinegar into each baking soda cup. Ask them to predict what will happen before each pour.
Once they have the hang of it, try mixing two vinegar colors into one cup. Does the color change? Does it fizz more or less?
Build a small mound of baking soda, make a crater in the top, pour the colored vinegar in all at once.
Different amounts of baking soda. Same amount of vinegar. Which cup fizzes highest?
Mix red and blue vinegar before adding to baking soda. What color comes out?
Parent tip: Ask "what do you think will happen?" before every pour. Prediction is what turns a fun mess into a real science experiment.
They just did a science experiment. These read like a follow-up.
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