I have a super easy and fun activity that your kids will love to try this summer! And the best part is that it is super easy to set up! Combine the coolness of ice with the excitement of a baking soda and vinegar fizzy reaction! This fizzy ice science experiment is a fantastic activity that merges sensory play with a fun science experiment.
It’s perfect for keeping kids entertained and engaged, especially on hot summer days. A great hands-on activity that will captivate their curiosity and spark their interest in STEM.
Fizzy Experiments Activities for Summer
I love a fun easy science experiment for kids especially during summer! Check out of these super easy baking soda and vinegar experiments that you can try this summer.
Fizzy Lemon Volcanoes
Fizzy Watermelon Sensory Bin
Awesome Fizzy Ice Cream Shop Sensory Bin
Why You’ll Love Making This Activity
You’ll love making this fizzy ice science experiment with your kids because it’s a fun, educational, and easy-to-set-up activity that provides endless entertainment.
The vibrant colors and fizzy reactions are fascinating for kids to watch and play with, making it a great way to introduce basic scientific concepts in a playful and engaging manner. Plus, it’s a fantastic way to keep kids cool and occupied during the summer.
This activity encourages kids to explore their senses, develop fine motor skills, and understand cause and effect.
The process of adding vinegar to baking soda-covered ice and watching the fizzing reaction is not only fun but also a great learning experience. It’s an activity that combines creativity, science, and sensory play all in one.
Materials Needed
- Sensory bin
- Ice
- Baking soda
- Small bowls
- Food coloring
- Vinegar
- Eye droppers
How to Set Up
- Prepare the Ice: Fill small bowls with vinegar and add a few drops of different food coloring to each. Mix well. Provide eye droppers for the kids to use.
- Set Up the Sensory Bin: Place lots of ice cubes in a sensory bin. Spread them out evenly to cover the bottom of the bin.
- Add Baking Soda: Generously sprinkle baking soda over the ice cubes. Make sure the ice is well-covered for maximum fizzing action.
- Start the Fun: Show the kids how to use the eye droppers to squirt vinegar onto the baking soda-covered ice cubes. Watch as the vinegar reacts with the baking soda, creating fizzy, bubbling reactions.
Behind the Science
The fizzing reaction you see when vinegar meets baking soda is a simple chemical reaction. Baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, is a base, and vinegar, or acetic acid, is an acid.
When these two substances mix, they react to form carbonic acid, which quickly breaks down into carbon dioxide gas and water. The bubbles and fizz you see are the carbon dioxide gas escaping from the mixture.
This reaction is not only exciting to watch but also a great way to introduce kids to basic chemistry concepts in a fun and interactive way.
My Books
Play2Learn Toddler & Preschool Programs for Curious Toddlers
There is no limit to your toddler’s energy and curiosity. That energy and curiosity although a joy can be challenging at times. Their interest in just about everything around them is what makes them great learners. One and two year olds can soak up so much just from their senses!
But as a teacher or parent that thirst for learning can be exhausting. That is why I created this toddler and preschooler program. To help you get the most out of this time with your curious toddler without having to come up with creative ways to play and interact with them.
Play2Learn for Toddlers includes 20 Units for toddlers. Each 2-week toddler unit has 20 super easy to set up and engaging activities for toddlers 18 months to 3 years.
Play2Learn Preschool which includes 20 Units for preschoolers. Each 2-week preschoolers unit has 20 unique and easy to set up and engaging activities for preschoolers 3 years to 5 years. That’s over 800 learning activities for your toddler and preschooler at your fingertips! So many ideas you and your child will never be bored again!
These toddler and preschool lesson plans and activities will definitely keep you and your toddler and preschooler busy playing and learning!
Click here for more information: Play2Learn
Book: Exciting Sensory Bins for Curious Kids
Did you know I wrote a book of sensory bins? Click here for more information Exciting Sensory Bin for Curious Kids. Or grab your copy at Amazon.
Boring afternoons are made exciting with awesome animal-based bins, like Salty Shark Bay or Yarn Farm. Pretend play bins like Birthday Cake Sensory Play or Bubble Tea Party encourage creativity and imagination. And your kids will have so much fun they won’t even know they’re getting smarter with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) activities like Sink or Float Soup, Magnetic Letter Hunt or Ice Cream Scoop and Count.
Designed for toddlers 18 months and up.
Book: Super STEAM Activity Book for Kids
Learning all about science, technology, engineering, art, and math sets kids up for scholastic success―and it can be so much fun! Watch kids enjoy building STEAM skills as they color friendly fish, help water find its way to tree roots, solve math problems with mazes, and more.
Find out more and grab your copy here.
Designed for preschoolers 3 years old and up.
Book: Big Book of Riddles for Kids
Riddle me this: What’s an exciting way to practice critical thinking while having a blast? The Big Riddle Book for Kids, of course! From hilarious puns to tough brain teasers, kids can build problem-solving skills with hundreds of riddles tha. t show them how to think outside the box.
- 350 riddles for kids—Have hours of fun with riddles, puns and jokes, and math and logic puzzles that’ll get their wheels turning!
- Level up their skills—Riddles get trickier as kids progress through the book, challenging them as they get better at solving puzzles!
- Double-check their work—Kids can check their answers in the back of the book with a handy answer key.
Help children expand their minds while having fun with this puzzle book for kids!
Designed for kids ages 6 years old and up.
TV Show: Curious Crafting
I’m so excited to share my crafting TV show Curious Crafting which launched in July 2022 on TVOkids and TVOkids YouTube! Season 2 aired in August 2023! My show was also nominated in 2023 for Best Live Action Preschool Series by the Youth Media Alliance Awards of Excellence.
Curious Crafting Season 1 is also now airing in Australia on ABC! Watch it here!
Set in the ultimate crafting space, Curious Crafting is a short form pre-school age series about the joy of making crafts. I lead a rotating cast of adorable little preschoolers (including my own) making magic out of common household objects.
In each episode we transform recycled items into magical crafts like a milk carton school bus, paper bag puppet or cotton pad turtle. The crafters learn and laugh their way through each activity while demonstrating what their young imaginations can create.
Curious Crafting shares the adventure and joy of making art with takeaway lessons for creating crafts at home.
This show designed for toddlers and preschoolers 2.5 years old and up.
