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.
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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Jen says
This is a great idea! I have some little cauldrons left from Halloween that would be perfect for this and my kids would love it! Pinning & sharing 🙂
Shaunna @ Fantastic Fun and Learning says
I love how you set this up. The inclusion of the sequins and glitter are just perfect. Thank you for linking up to Discover & Explore. I’m featuring this post today.
littlebins says
I am glad you liked it. It was pretty popular around here too! Thank you for featuring it.
Jolanthe says
What could be more fun than mixing rainbow colors and fizzing eruptions? Thank you for sharing.
Sandra says
Thank you very much for taking the time to post this, it’s great and I know my grandson is going to love it. I just wanted to clarify something though. You started with this sentence and I’m not clear on what ingredient you’re talking about, I’m assuming it’s the baking soda that you’re referring to. Here it is: “I put about a tablespoon and a half (around there) into each pot and then sprinkled on green glitter (of course) and then color coded each pot with sequins. ” Will you please clarify. Thank you!
Shannon says
This looks like a project my son would love! Thanks for allowing me to share in my St. Patrick’s Day Roundup
littlebins says
Your welcome! Thank you!
Shauna M. says
This looks like so much fun! Thank you for sharing. I’m curious–how do you clean up after this activity? The baking soda and vinegar are fine to go down the sink, but probably not so much the glitter and sequins. Just wondering! Would love to hear what you did to clean up. tia!
littlebins says
Hi Shauna,
It depends on how much glitter and sequins I have used. I am sure a few have washed down the drain. I do use a strainer when I have those bigger items like sequins, and then I can scoop out the larger stuff and throw it away.