Exploding Bags

Remember I told you I would share with you about making exploding bags.....well here it is.  Super easy and kids thought it was fun!

All you need is water, vinegar, baking soda, paper towels, and ziploc baggies.

Cut your paper towel into a 5x5 inch square......you can get 4 out of 1 paper towel.....cut in half and then in half again.  Put 1 1/2 tablespoons of baking soda in the middle of the paper towel and fold the corners in to make a little packet. 

Pour into your baggy 1/2 cup of vinegar and 1/4 cup of warm water.

Now you need to drop the packet of baking soda into the vinegar and zip the bag closed before the fizzing gets out of control.  You can zip the bag halfway closed, then stuff the packet in and zip the bag closed the rest of the way in a hurry or you can put the packet into the mouth of the bag and hold it up out of the vinegar by pinching the sides of the bag.  Zip the bag closed and then let the packet drop into the vinegar.  One way or another, get the packet in the vinegar and zip the bag closed.

Shake the bag a little, place it on the ground and stand back.  The bag will puff up dramatically and then give a loud pop!  The kids thought it was pretty exciting stuff......they thought it sounded like a firecracker!  Make sure you have plenty of supplies to do this more than once, because trust me, your kids will want to do it over and over again.

The first time we did it, we had a very tiny leak so it puffed up but never popped.  So I stomped on it and they thought that was pretty cool.....much louder too!

After this little experiment, I was asked if we could make a volcano.....gonna have to add that to the list yet this summer!