Magic Bottle Inflates Balloon!

This experiment, I'm sure will leave the kids squealing with excitement!😄 When I decided to do this experiment, I told LO we are gonna make a magic with bottle and Balloon, he got super excited!!😊 Though kids can't catch the idea or the science concept behind the experiment, it would be super fun for them.

While I was preparing for the setup, LO wanted to do everything by himself!😳 I realized my days are not the same as last year. During those days I do all the set-up, call him only while doing the activity, take pictures hassle free, be relaxed all time. Now he is like, " Me, me, me... Let me do... I can do... I will do it... I know how to do.. Please you don't touch Amma... !!". 😀😆😂😂😂 Hmmm... !!

Actually what we do: (For us)

Take vinegar/acetic acid/lemon juice in a bottle.

Fill a Balloon with baking powder (Sodium bicarbonate).

Place the balloon covering the mouth of the bottle.

Slowly when you lift the balloon, the baking powder reacts with the lemon juice in bottle.
The reaction liberates Carbondioxide gas, which inflates the balloon.

Acetic acid(Vinegar) and Sodium bicarbonate reacts to liberate Carbondioxide which finds nowhere to escape, and thus inflates the balloon.

Set Up:

This is a very easy frugal activity which we can do with the supplies at kitchen.

1. Vinegar/lemon juice/Acetic acid

2. Baking powder

3. Balloon

4. Bottle (Glass/Plastic)

5. Funnel, Spoon (optional)

Fill the Balloon with 2 tbl spoon of baking powder. If not balloon, you can use a rubber glove too.

Initially I filled a small glass bottle with the juice from a lemon. This amount of the ingredients wasn't sufficient to blow up the balloon big. Me and LO weren't happy with the size of the balloon.

So I filled a water bottle with approximately 100ml of vinegar(as I didn't have enough lemon in stock), and tried the same. This time we were able to make the bottle inflate a bigger balloon!!😃

LO got super excited on seeing the bottle inflate the balloon!!😁

Finally his understanding was "Lemon juice and baking powder when mixed together, air comes out and fills the balloon!"

And thus the end of Magic!💪

Happy Parenting!!😊😊               

Water Science : Vanishing in Water!!!

This is LO'S first ever so called "Science Experiment"!!😎I just wanted to do a simple one, to start with, so chose the solubility test. Whether the kids learn or not, understand the science concept or not, it is definitely a fun time for them 😻(not for me though!😆 protecting the glasses and seeing to that the water doesn't spill and taking care that LO doesn't make the place a messy fades all my fun and keeps my eyes big open😂😂😂)

Things you might need:
6-9 cups (no single-use plastics please!, I used glass cups)
A spoon
Water
Pantry items (Your choice)
What I used for the solubility test:

1. White Sugar
2. Brown Sugar
3. Palm Sugar (crystals)
4. Table Salt
5. Rock Salt
6. Washing powder (just for the blue color!)
7. Rice
8. Oats
9. Baking soda

How we tested:

First, I asked LO to fill the glasses with water till half of its level. 

Then I asked him to help me out in adding the solids to the water. 

Trust me I didn't expect him to catch the the meaning of solubility this easy! He stirred the solution in each glass with the spoon to check if the solids are still or got vanished in water.

I asked him which are the substance that got vanished in water, and he was able to identify. And I asked him to write in a paper categorizing the two. He wrote what he observed and what he understood!

But can't convince him the fact that even the washing powder and palm sugar too are soluble in water.Since they both didn't leave the water clear, as salt and sugar did😀😀(tough job indeed!!)

And finally when I was about to clean up the set up, LO said he wanted to keep it as it is, to show his cousin bother and sister, who will come home a month later!!😳😁(as my eyes kept supervising the glasses wide open!!😂😂)

At the end it was a fun filled time for LO, though he didn't realize this as a basic STEM activity.

Happy Parenting😊

Stepping into STEM Activities!

As my LO is in Upper Kindergarten(Growing tremendously fast! Can't believe he is in KG!😲), I thought this is the right time to expose him to organized STEM activities. So you can come across interesting mini experiments and fun STEM activities in this space which would blow the little minds!!

Happy Parenting 😊