This next activity brings Fall and science together in a way that kids of all ages are sure to love!
Rosie and Jewel love exploring with baking soda and vinegar, and we love coming up with new and fun twists for this simple bit of science! Today, we carved a few pumpkins, and then made them ERUPT! Are you ready to see how?
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Erupting Pumpkins Experiment for Kids
Materials- Carved pumpkins
- Baking soda
- Vinegar
Optional additions:
Method- Begin by carving a few pumpkins. Depending on kids age, adults will likely need to help with this part.
- Once carved add roughly 1 cup of baking soda to each pumpkin. If the pumpkins are on the smaller side you can use less baking soda.
- Add a few drops of food coloring, if desired. Then, have kids pour 2-3 cups of vinegar into the pumpkins and quickly step back!
- The pumpkins will erupt with fizzing, bubbling fun almost immediately! This is also known as a baking soda and vinegar reaction.
Rosie and Jewel thought this was so cool and wanted to make the pumpkins erupt over and over again!
Nothing like puking pumpkins to get the kids excited about science! :)
Extend the Fun
- Make pumpkin play dough.
- Paint puffy pumpkins.
- Make pumpkin slime!
- Color pumpkin seeds to make art.
- Make erupting snow.
- Make erupting apples.
- Use baking soda to make slime.
Want more pumpkin fun? Check out this collection of pumpkin activities for kids!
- Add a squirt of dish soap to the pumpkins before pouring in the vinegar. This will make the acid-base reaction last much longer!
- Try this fizzing experiment with different size pumpkins. When using small pumpkins we were able to make the entire jack-o-lantern erupt!
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