Fizzing Yellow Fun – a Baking Soda and Vinegar Science Experiment

Materials

3 Small clear cups or bowls
Eye dropper or pipette
Baking Soda
Vinegar
Yellow Food Coloring
Spoon

Directions

Fill a small cup or bowl with baking soda.  In another cup or bowl, pour about 1/4 cup vinegar.  Add several drops of yellow food coloring to the vinegar.  Set out a spoon, pipette, and another empty cup or bowl and invitie your child to experiment placing a spoonful of baking soda into the empty bowl and adding a few drops of the colored vinegar by using a pipette.  Observe what happens.

Lesson Extensions

Provide three clear bowls for colored baking soda (yellow, blue, red)  To color the baking soda, add a few drops of food coloring and mix.  Provide 3 more clear bowls or cups with colored vinegar (yellow, blue, red).  Using an egg carton, place a spoonful of one color of baking soda into an empty egg section.  Using a pipette, place a drop of a different color vinegar mixture on top of the baking soda.  What new color did you make?

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