With Easter just around the corner, when I saw this Easter spin on one of our favourite science activities, I just knew we had to try it out. You can NEVER go wrong with baking soda and vinegar!!
I saw the idea on an amazing Instagram account I follow: @busytoddler
Supplies: baking soda, vinegar, food colouring, plastic Easter eggs, squirt bottle, container to hold the eggs, baking tray or other large container
We had this egg container from our camping supplies. I thought about using a cardboard egg container, but it would get soggy from the vinegar and could be a pain to clean up. So if you're planning in advance, maybe buy the eggs that come in the plastic container.
First, I got the eggs set up for Peanut. Since there is a little surprise under the baking soda, I did this when he was busy doing something else. In the bottom of each egg, I put a few drops of food colouring!
Then I covered the food colouring completely with baking soda.
I put some vinegar in the squeeze bottle, and everything was ready to go!
Peanut was reluctant at first. This was one of his first science activities (at least that he can remember), so there was a lot of "I can't do it, I'm too little" happening. Once we practiced squirting the vinegar a few times together, he felt good about it and got to work.
It took a lot of vinegar to get down to the colour underneath. So at first, Peanut just saw all the "bubbles" and listened to the noise it made.
After he had put vinegar into all the eggs once, we refilled the squeeze bottle and Peanut went back in for the second round. This time, the colours really started to come up. So exciting!
We filled the squeeze bottle four times. Peanut just couldn't get enough!
You can see what a mess it all was by the end. But worth it!
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