New Years Baking Soda Experiment For Kids

New year’s Eve is such an exciting night for us! I love the changing of the year and the new possibilities the next year will bring. Of course, before we had our son, we were off to dinner and dancing the night away! Now we can still celebrate with New Years Eve activities but it’s a different kind of fizzy, the science experiment kind!

Fizzy Baking Soda New Years Experiment for Kids!

Create a fun New Year’s Eve Celebration with Fizzy Science!

My son won’t stay up until midnight (we may not either, haha) so I have been putting together some simple and fun activities for him to do during the day. Check out our article on setting up an awesome New Years’ Eve list of activities for kids here.

Tonight should be lots of fun after dinner. We will have lots of confetti to make a huge mess with before I vacuum. I can’t wait to see how it all works. For now, here is our fun afternoon New Year’s Eve fizzy science activity for celebrating.

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FIZZING NEW YEARS SCIENCE EXPERIMENT

This is your traditional baking soda and vinegar science activity with a creative New Year twist. I picked up my party supplies at the dollar store this morning, mini punch bowl, ladle, and colored plastic glasses. I love their cookie sheets and baking pans for easy clean up too.

We love to find all of the super simple supplies at the dollar store or grocery store. That makes for easy science and happy kids! Science at home is easier than you think when all you need to do is open your cabinets. Check out all our tips for creating fun science at home this year!

SUPPLIES:

• Baking Soda
• Vinegar
• Food Coloring
• Glitter
• Tray
• Ladle
• Plastic Celebration Glasses

SET UP:

STEP 1. Fill glasses with baking soda and sprinkle glitter.

This new years activity is also great for some fine motor play as well. He filled each glass with some baking soda and generously sprinkled glitter!

STEP 2. Mix the party punch {vinegar}!

I filled the punch bowl with white vinegar (he has never minded the smell or commented on it but lemon juice also works) and added a few drops of food coloring. We are down to the yellow one since Christmas took all our green and red. Blue was long gone! He mixed it and added more glitter!

STEP 3. Ladle the vinegar into the glasses and enjoy the fizzy fun!

This new year’s activity is so entertaining for kids.  We went through two bowls of vinegar! Something I have learned is to buy the big jugs and big boxes of vinegar and baking soda. We love science that fizzes, pops, and bangs!

WHAT IS THE SCIENCE BEHIND IT?

This is a great example of simple chemistry, mixtures, and reactions. When you combine baking soda which is a base and vinegar which is an acid, you get a gas! This gas is called carbon dioxide and is exactly what gives you the bubbly fizzing fun your kids really love.

TIME TO PLAY

See where your kids take this New Years activity. Sit back and watch what they decide to do with all of it after the glasses have been filled!

My son enjoyed adding baking soda to the bottom tray, dumping out the glasses and mixing it all together. At one point he was talking about frogs. I always enjoy and encourage open-ended play. If it comes naturally, great! If it doesn’t, we clean up and move on to another activity!

FUN AND EASY NEW YEARS SCIENCE EXPERIMENT FOR ALL!

May your New Year be filled with fun and play with your children! Click on the picture below to find the coolest ideas that are easy to do for an amazing New Year’s eve with kids!