Exploding Kool-Aid

 
Now many of you drank Kool-Aid as a kid. I know that in my mom's house there was ALWAYS Kool-Aid around. So when I saw this project I thought let's give it a go. It ended up working so well we will do it again this summer. 

Materials:
Backing Soda
Kool Aid 
Water 
Cookie Sheets  (I used 2 of them so each kid could have their own)


There are so many cool things on pinterest and google and other blogs. My main complaint is that people list the ingredients but don't tell me how much of anything to put inside to do the project...so I made an educated guess but I did measure for my blog. 

I added 1/4 cup of baking soda to each of the small bowls 
**Note DO NOT USE VINEGAR....the ingredients in Kool-Aid react with the baking soda and water all alone.

I let the boys add the Kool-Aid...they each picked two colors at the store that they wanted to use. 

This one was lemonade and grape




This one below is tropical and pink lemonade

 The kids poured the water inside of the bowls themselves. We used old water bottles to do so. I let the kids add water until the bubbles began to start....My youngest stopped let the bubbles go down and then poured more water inside the bowl.

You can see they bubbled up quite nicely













This is what happened in the end they overflowed and gave off such a yummy smell!!! 

 This was fun, had very little clean up and not a lot of materials. We had fun watching them overflow and smelling the different scents.

Good project and we will definitely do this one again!!!!