Sizzle! Pop! Let’s Explore Fizzy Paint..

• Posted on 2 August 2024
• By Owls Hollow Team
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Combine science and art with this super fun activity where kids can explore painting with vinegar and baking soda & colours and watch the reactions transform their pictures

Here is fun process art project, suitable for many ages, that combines science and art.  By mixing baking soda and vinegar with paint (version 2) or food colouring (version 1) kids can make chemical reactions while painting a picture!

Materials required for version 1:

Tray

Watercolour Paper (works best) or Regular White Paper

Baking Soda

Vinegar

Food Colouring

Paint Pipette

Directions for version one:

1.Pour vinegar into some bowls

2.Add drops of food colouring to each bowl of vinegar

3.Place paper on a tray

4.Sprinkle baking soda over paper

Fill paint pipette, dropper or paint bellow with coloured vinegar

Start creating by dropping coloured vinegar onto the paper covered in baking soda.

Watch as the vinegar reacts with the vinegar!

VERSION 2 for making art with fizzy paint:

Materials required for version 2:

Tray

Watercolour Paper (works best) or Regular White Paper

Baking Soda

Vinegar

Paint

Paint Pipette

Paint Brush

To begin:

Pour some paint colours into bowls & mix baking soda into each colour of paint.  We added roughly 2 TBSP into 1/3 paint:

Paint a picture with the paint/baking soda mixture:

Sprinkle the vinegar onto the painting with paint pipette, dropper or paint bellow:

Watch as the vinegar reacts with the baking soda that was added to the paint!

Here are the results of the 2 versions:

If you want to save your creations, let dry for several hours.

This project is so much fun and touches on many aspects of learning and exploration.  

We use the following:

Crayola Washable Paint

Paint Pipettes

Watercolour Paper