This post delivers the ultimate amazing list of baking soda and vinegar experiments for kids. We're talking baking soda and vinegar with balloons, rocket boosting baking soda and vinegar, color changing experiments, and so much more! Are you ready to dig into these ROCK star baking soda and vinegar experiments? Yeah, me, too…
The Science Behind Baking Soda & Vinegar
Baking Soda and vinegar react chemically we know that much simply by observing the experiments. We can see the chemical reaction. What it is about the two ingredients that react in such phenomenally cool ways?
The science is that baking soda and vinegar react with each other because of an acid-base reaction. Baking soda is a bicarbonate (NaHCO3) and vinegar is an acetic acid (HCH3COO). One of the products this reaction creates is carbon dioxide, which makes the bubbles.
Baking Soda and Vinegar Experiments for Kids
Fizzing Colors from Happy Hooligans is not only fun science learning but it is also great fine motor skills work. This baking soda and vinegar experiment with food coloring adds a bit of pizazz to a child's day.
Busy Toddler adds a bit of a twist on the dropper food color experiment by Happy Hooligans. She presents the baking soda and vinegar activity with hidden colors. By adding this element of surprise, this activity has kids at ‘hello'.
My sons LOVED this baking soda & vinegar experiment. Chelsey from Buddy & Buddy nails this one with her exploding baggies.
Along the same lines, Sarah from Frugal Fun for Boys & Girls created a rocket baking soda & vinegar experiment for her kids. Totally out of this world!
Katie from Preschool Inspirations tops the cake with her color changing baking soda & vinegar experiment.
A few years ago we explore chemistry with a baking soda and vinegar experiment with balloons. To celebrate Earth Day we use an earth balloon and really made the scientific point about expanding air.
Maria Montessori & Science
What is a scientist?… We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself. ~ Dr. Montessori
More Easy Science Experiments for Kids with Baking Soda & Vinegar
Kim from Life Over Cs does a fizzy baking soda and vinegar experiment with ice!
Darcy at Darcy and Brian creates a Melting Rainbow Baking Soda and Vinegar experiment.
I quickly added this baking soda and vinegar activity to our list. Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls made hot ice from a few items you likely have in your home at this current moment.
Life Over Cs presents us with a playdough volcano baking soda & vinegar experiment.
The Pinterested Parent takes her baking soda and vinegar experiment a step further by creating art from the volcano eruptions!
Bitz and Giggles created electric eels twist on the baking soda and vinegar experiment!
What's Next After All this Baking Soda & Vinegar Experimental Learning?
Try to add other substances such as carbonated water, hydrogen peroxide, or dish soap. Observe how the eruption changes.
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