New year’s eve is such an exciting night for me! 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 a new year’s activity but it’s a different kind of fizzy, the science experiment kind!
New Years Activity Fizzy Baking Soda Science 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 made a ball and 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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Fizzy Party New Years Activity Set-Up
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
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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.
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NEW YEARS ACTIVITY FROM START TO FINISH!
What’s the science?
Check our step by step photos for setting up this awesomely fun fizzy science activity! Before we get started, how about a little quick science!
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.
New Years Activity Step by Step
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!
 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!
Ladle the vinegar into the glasses and enjoy the fizzy fun!
This new year’s activity is so entertaining for kids. Â 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!
Optional fizzy science free 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!
MAKE Â YOUR OWN HOMEMADE PARTY POPPERS!
This is a super easy and fun activity for New Years and a great alternative to going out and buying party poppers. You have to see the pictures of him trying this out.
A Fun and Easy New Year Activity 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!
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Kristina @ SchoolTimeSnippets
Love this activity!! I’ve never thought to add GLITTER to the baking soda/ vinegar concoction! Makes this activity much more festive! If it wasn’t 10* outside I’d head to the Dollar Store or Party City to grab those adorable champagne glasses; all I have are two from when the hubs and I got married. Not so sure I want the kiddos playing with them! ha!
littlebins
We absolutely love baking soda and vinegar. I have to stock pile it!