☃️Fizzing Baking Soda Snowman

Fizzing Baking Soda Snowman Activity

Ingredients:

- Baking soda (1-1½ cups)

- Water (¼-⅓ cup)

- White vinegar (½-1 cup)

- Small clear bowl or tray (12-16 oz)

- Snowman mold or hand-shaped form

- Pipettes, droppers, or squeeze bottles

- Food coloring (blue, red, green, optional for details)

- Glitter (white, crystal, iridescent)

- Optional: dish soap (1-2 tsp for extra foam)

- Optional: essential oil (1-2 drops peppermint or wintergreen)

- Measuring cups & spoons (USA units)

- Tray, baking sheet, or towel (mess control)

Directions:

1. In a bowl, mix 1-1½ cups baking soda with ¼-⅓ cup water to form a thick, packable snow-like paste.

2. Stir in glitter for snowy sparkle.

3. Shape the mixture into stacked snowballs to form a snowman, or press into a snowman mold.

4. Place the snowman on a tray or baking sheet.

5. Optional: add food coloring details for eyes, buttons, or scarves.

6. Fill pipettes or squeeze bottles with white vinegar.

7. Optional: mix 1-2 tsp dish soap into the vinegar for fluffy foam.

8. Slowly drip or squirt vinegar onto the snowman.

9. Watch as the snowman fizzes, bubbles, and melts like a snowstorm in action!

10. Continue adding vinegar until the reaction finishes.

11. Discuss how acid (vinegar) reacts with base (baking soda) to create carbon dioxide bubbles.