My daughter loves bath bombs, and my son loves destruction. So, what’s better than making homemade baking soda eggs during Easter time and dropping them in vinegar! Just like when you performed the volcano eruption, this reaction will cause a mess (to the delight of your kids)!
It’s quite simple! You need a lot of baking soda, a little water, and a bunch of vinegar! You can also use food coloring, glitter, or colored dish soap!
Since it’s getting closer to Easter, we decided to make eggs! We also hid alphabet letters in them so when they dissolved there was a surprise inside!!!
1) Combine baking soda and water. I had my toddlers add their own amount of water which I ended up needing to add more baking soda (you want a moldable Plato like texture). You can also add food coloring and glitter.
2) mold it into the shape you want. You can hide plastic animals or letter or whatever u want in the middle of the eggs to show up when they are dissolved!
3) so clearly, a taller container is preferred and doing this outside is best! Drop in the egg into a container of vinegar and watch the bubbles take off!
•if you have older kids this is the time to explain the chemical reaction occurring (my kids just love the reaction)!
*if you have used multiple eggs in the same container you will need more vinegar or a new container as there will be too much baking soda for the reaction to occur!
Try it with hidden objects inside, glitter, and colors! We did try natural colorings however it ended up just turning the vinegar a gray color instead of the yellow and red we predicted.
Have fun and enjoy the mess (I know we did)!
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