Today the boys found out what happens when bicarb soda and vinegar mix together.
I got this idea from the Kids Activities Blog a couple of days ago when looking for ideas to occupy the boys during the school holidays.
I got this idea from the Kids Activities Blog a couple of days ago when looking for ideas to occupy the boys during the school holidays.
I got out an oven tray and poured a lot of bicarb soda over the bottom of it, making it quite thick.
Then the boys used the medicine droppers (I think I got them with the baby panadol quite a few years ago) and squirted on drops of food colouring. We put a couple of dinosaurs into the bicarb soda just enough that they were standing up, but not touching the bottom tray. (I did see this on another blog, but can’t find it now. If you have seen it let me know). They put some food colouring around the feet of the dinosaurs and then they squirted on drops of vinegar on top of the drops of food colouring.
They loved seeing the reaction of the vinegar and bicarb soda. Fizzy colourful bubbles were popping up everywhere. When we removed the dinosaurs there were colourful footprints.
In the end they just tipped the whole container of vinegar onto the bicarb soda and had lots of bubbles everywhere.
Then the boys used the medicine droppers (I think I got them with the baby panadol quite a few years ago) and squirted on drops of food colouring. We put a couple of dinosaurs into the bicarb soda just enough that they were standing up, but not touching the bottom tray. (I did see this on another blog, but can’t find it now. If you have seen it let me know). They put some food colouring around the feet of the dinosaurs and then they squirted on drops of vinegar on top of the drops of food colouring.
They loved seeing the reaction of the vinegar and bicarb soda. Fizzy colourful bubbles were popping up everywhere. When we removed the dinosaurs there were colourful footprints.
In the end they just tipped the whole container of vinegar onto the bicarb soda and had lots of bubbles everywhere.
Love this! You can never have enough bicarb and vinegar experiments, can you? It is a good way to get kids cleaning too…. “Now, just watch how the dirt dissolves when I sprinkle bicarb on it and spray on some vinegar….” lol!