Make snow volcanoes use baking soda and vinegar with your toddler or preschooler.
Getting outside in the winter can sometimes be a chore. All the hats, mitts, snow pants, jackets, boots and then oops now have to pee. Sometimes just looking for all the various things necessary for outdoor fun is so exhausting that I consider not going out at all.
If you have ever been there, I have a super fun activity that will make you glad that you did! Snow volcanoes! Create eruptions of color in the snow using baking soda and vinegar.
Honestly, we have done lots of baking soda and vinegar experiments in our house, but this one was super fun. Watching the color volcanoes erupt on the pristine white snow is absolutely worth the effort of getting outside!
Materials for Snow Volcanoes
- Small plastic cups (x6 for the rainbow)
- Dish soap
- Water
- Baking Soda
- Food coloring or liquid watercolors
- Vinegar
- Squeeze bottle
How to Set Up Snow Volcanoes
- First, make mounts of snow. These will act as your volcanoes. Inside each mount place the plastic cup in the center top. Pack the snow around the cup so that when the reaction starts it flows down the mount just like a real volcano.
- Inside the cup add a squirt of dish soap and then water. You want to fill the water close up the top of the glass this will help make the eruption occur sooner when you add the vinegar.
- Next, add a couple spoonfuls of baking soda. The more you add the bigger the reaction you will get.
- Add the color. We used liquid watercolors this time but you can also use food coloring. Add a few drops of the different colors that you want to use to the cups. We decided to do the rainbow and added red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.
- Now it’s time for the reaction! Fill a squeeze bottle with vinegar. I would also keep the vinegar close by because you will likely need more as your child squeezes with delight. We went through a $5 jug of vinegar quite quickly.
- Start by adding the vinegar. Keep adding until the color volcanoes flow down the snowy volcano. Continue to the next color and keep going until the reaction is completely over.
- Can’t get enough? Checkout these other cool baking soda and vinegar experiments to do with your toddler or preschooler.
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!
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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!
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- 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.
