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!!😊😊