Science afternoon

Science Lab in a Tray!

Olly LOVES science and the other day he wanted to be a scientist so I set up a tray that was sure to get things fizzing!

There were 3 bowls of baking soda with some colour in, 1 bowl shaving foam mixed with baking soda and one bowl of citric acid mixed with baking soda), some spoons, a syringe, a bottle of vinegar and some water:

And away he went first mixing to make the colour appear:

Then adding vinegar to see the magic:

The shaving foam was pretty impressive:

But the citric acid won hands down - not only because it didn't smell of vinegar (you add water to citric acid) This one just kept on fizzing and fizzing....

Of course it was all going very nicely and then I decided to let him get on with it - he will play with this sort of things for ages - in this case about 40 mins and the result is:

We all love baking soda experiments and I always have a few wholesale tubs around to bring out when needed! Its the smell of vinegar that gets too much!!

Thank you for reading...