| One of the best ways to attract your child's attention | | | | One of the most famous fun exploding science |
| and get them interested in science is to demonstrate | | | | experiments is the soda fountain. Explain to your child |
| some fun exploding science experiments! Showing | | | | how soda is filled with carbon dioxide gas that is |
| them a great explosion and then explaining to them | | | | connected to the liquid of the soda. When you drop in |
| why it happened, and how it can be recreated will | | | | a whole roll of Mentos candy into the soda, the tiny |
| create a curiosity for learning, and will show your child | | | | holes in the candy reacts with the carbon dioxide in the |
| that science experiments can be a lot of fun! Do any | | | | soda, forcing the gas up and out of the bottle. Place a |
| of these fun exploding science experiments in your | | | | liter of soda in the middle of your garden and have |
| home, and let the learning begin! | | | | your kids get ready to dance around the fountain. Drop |
| Pseudo Explosion | | | | in the roll of Mentos candies and watch it work! While it |
| To get started with your fun exploding science | | | | isn't a huge explosion, it's a lot of fun! |
| experiments, try one that doesn't really explode, as the | | | | Bag Burst |
| sound may scare your child at first. Putting dry ice into | | | | This fun exploding science experiment uses the same |
| some warm water produces gas and water vapor so | | | | principles used by the classic erupting volcano science |
| rapidly that it is visible. It gives an eerie smoky effect. | | | | fair project. Take a two tablespoons of baking soda |
| You can usually buy dry ice at an ice cream store. | | | | and wrap it up in some tissue paper. Then grab a zip |
| Teach your child not to hold the dry ice, as it is usually | | | | lock bag and put in half a cup of warm water followed |
| cold enough to hurt them. Demonstrate how this kind | | | | by a cup of vinegar. Zip the bag up partially then put it |
| of ice is different from regular ice because it doesn't | | | | in the center of your garden, put in the tissue with |
| melt into a liquid, it just evaporates into the air. That is | | | | baking soda and zip the bag up the rest of the way. |
| because it isn't made out of water, but of carbon | | | | Stand back, because the bag will expand till it |
| dioxide. | | | | explodes! |
| Pretend to concoct secret potions with your dry ice, | | | | The bag explodes because once the baking soda an |
| and watch it bubble over water. This experiment is | | | | vinegar interact, they produce carbon dioxide gas |
| best to teach right before Halloween so you and your | | | | which fills the bag until the only way out is for it to |
| child can come up with color ideas for water. Place | | | | explode! As we can see, carbon dioxide was used in |
| differently colored jars of water around your lawn or | | | | all these fun exploding science experiments. To make |
| front porch and drop in some dry ice. This will create a | | | | this a true day of learning, try to figure out what it is |
| spooky effect around your home, perfect for the | | | | about carbon dioxide that allows it to do any of the |
| scary holiday! | | | | three experiments just discussed! |
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