Fizzy Pumpkins
Kids will be amazed and delighted as miniature pumpkins fizz and bubble.
Materials
- Baking soda
- Water
- Orange food coloring
- White vinegar
- Pumpkin mold
- Spoon
- Small bowl
- Tray
- Plastic cups clear
Instructions
- In a small bowl, mix the following ingredients into a paste: ½ cup baking soda and 3 tablespoons of water.
- Squeeze a few drops of food coloring into the paste mixture.
- Stir well with a spoon to get the color spread evenly. The consistency of this paste will be more on the crumbly side.
- Put enough of the mixture into one pumpkin crevice and push it down with your fingers, careful to get it into every nook and cranny, particularly the stem.
- Carefully turn the mold over to remove the pumpkin, placing it in a plastic cup.
- Fill a small cup with vinegar and pour that into the pumpkin cup and watch the reaction.
Video
Notes
- Please supervise children during this entire activity.
- If you fill up all of the holes in the mold, they will all come out when you remove one. That is why it is best to make one at a time.
- Removing the pumpkin from the mold (particulalry the stem) can be tricky, so adults should do this step.
- Please have children wash their hands after the experiment.