Turn Your Kitchen Into a Chemistry Lab
15 min€ 15 Active
Fizzing volcanoes, popping rockets and colour changing potions, all from your kitchen cupboard. Fifteen minutes of hands on science for curious minds.
Chemistry is a lot more fun when it erupts, pops and changes colour on your kitchen table. With a few everyday items like baking soda, vinegar and red cabbage, you can run three quick experiments that genuinely wow kids and adults alike, and sneak in a little real science along the way.
Set up in a well ventilated spot, gather your supplies, and give yourself fifteen minutes of joyful mess. It is safe, cheap and endlessly repeatable, which is exactly what makes it a great rainy day go to.
Set up in a ventilated spot and gather your supplies: baking soda, vinegar, food colouring, plastic containers, a film canister and red cabbage.
Build a fizzy volcano. Put a couple of tablespoons of baking soda in a container, add food colouring, then pour vinegar over and watch it erupt.
Launch a rocket outdoors. Wrap a teaspoon of baking soda in tissue, half fill a snap lid canister with vinegar, drop it in, cap it, and stand back.
Suggestion: Do this one outside, lid down on the ground.Test acidity with colour. Boil red cabbage to make a natural pH indicator, then add lemon juice, vinegar and baking soda solution to see it change.
Talk through the why. The fizz is an acid and base reaction, and the cabbage changes colour because its pigment reacts to acids and bases.
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