Fizzing Pots St Patricks Day Baking Soda Science Activity

Every little leprechaun needs a black pot! Try our St Patricks Day fizzing pots science activity with your little leprechauns this holiday. We love fizzing science activities and experiments. They are especially fun when you add fun themes to them for holidays science activities. Our rainbow fizzing pots are simple but amazing science play for young kids.

ST PATRICKS DAY FIZZING POTS SCIENCE ACTIVITY

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St. Patrick’s Day is another holiday day that is easy to include lots of different science ideas. Many of our year round kids science activities are simple to recreate with different themes for holidays and seasons.

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We love to make themed slimes, do fizzy eruptions, build leprechaun traps, and so many more ideas! Make sure to check out all of St. Patrick’s Day science and STEM activities.

RAINBOW FIZZING POTS SCIENCE EXPERIMENT

Cool fizzing pots science experiment for kids!  We love fizzing science experiments. We do fizzy science in all sorts of crazy and fun ways! These little black pots are perfect for our fizzing pots science experiment with a St Patrick’s Day theme! I showed him these pots and he said let’s make them into volcanoes! We ended up including two science concepts in one experiment, chemical reactions and color mixing!

ST PATRICK DAY FIZZING POTS SCIENCE SET UP 

SUPPLIES

Black Pots

Food Coloring

Glitter

Vinegar

Baking Soda

Small Cups {mixing colors}

Eyedroppers, Turkey Baster, Small Pouring Cups, Squeeze Bottles

I find it crucial in our house to have an ample supply of baking soda and vinegar. Any type of play that gets him thinking, talking and engaging, is fine by me!

That’s why you will always see many variations of fizzing activities he has enjoyed in the past. Sometimes a different spin on a specific skill or concept is all you need to increase interest!

SET UP

Add a couple tablespoons to start into each pot and then sprinkled on green glitter  and color coded each pot with sequins. Make sure to put your pots on a cookie sheet to catch the overflow which will definitely happen. A baking dish will work too.

Have your child help as much as you like and as much as they are able to help! I filled six small containers with vinegar and set out the food coloring bottles for color mixing.

We discussed the three primary colors, red, yellow and blue. What colors do they make when mixed?  He knew them all, but we tested our answers by doing the mixing together! We made a rainbow!

For our St Patricks Day fizzing pots science,  I started with an eye dropper but quickly realized that we need to add more vinegar at one time to get a good eruption.

I switched out his eye dropper for a gravy ladle (good size for little hands). You could also use a turkey baster! He also had the opportunity to work on his transferring skills!

 A good, full ladle full of colored vinegar was just the right amount to get the pots to overflow!

We made so many great fizzing eruptions from our rainbow colored pots. He used all the colors and really enjoyed seeing the colors fizzing up and over. Our St Patricks Day fizzing pots science experiment was a success, and I got a big high five afterwards.

 The end result was pretty stunning! All the colors of the rainbow  were bubbling and fizzing on the tray! We ended up pouring the little white containers of colored vinegar directly into the pots when they got to low for the ladle to work. 

ST PATRICKS DAY FIZZING POTS SCIENCE  is AWESOME fun for kids.

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