This outrageously FUN Exploding Snowman is a fun winter science experiment for kids of all ages from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students. This exploding snowman experiment is super simple to try using common materials you already have in your kitchen! Use this as a snowman activities for preschoolers to teach kids a little chemistry with this baking soda and vinegar experiment.
Exploding Snowman
Kids will go nuts over this easy winter activities for preschoolers, kindergartner, toddlers, and grade 1 students that they will want to try over and over and over again! To make the winter science, children will use a couple simple kitchen supplies to create a baking soda and vinegar science experiment. Get ready for giggles of excitement as the snowman gets bigger and bigger before it POPS! Use this as a snowman activity for kids during the cold months of December, January, and February!
Winter Science Experiment
To complete winter science experiments all you need are these simple supplies you already have in your kitchen.
Supplies:
- Sandwich size ziplock bag (or larger if you want to double it for double the fun!) – the slide ones are quick and easy or little fingers!
- vinegar
- blue food coloring (optional)
- baking soda
- paper towel
- black sharpie
- nose out of orange construction paper, orange felt, or orange sharpie
Exploding snowman experiment
Exploding snowman science experiment
Snowman Activities for Preschoolers
Winter activities for preschoolers
Exploding snowman in a bag
Baking Soda and Vinegar Experiment
So how does this simple chemistry experiment for kids work? As baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, mixes with vinegar, carbon dioxide is created. The bag starts to fill with carbon dioxide (and that’s why you see the bag start to swell up) until the pressure is too much and … BOOM!
- before you try this easy preschool science experiment ask them to guess what will happen (called a hypothesis)
- Try with different size bags
- Or have children mix up the amount of vinegar or baking soda and see what happens
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Winter Science
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Snowman Printables
Looking for snowman worksheets and educational snowman activity ideas? You will love these resources!
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Winter Printables
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Snowman Math
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Response
My students are currently on remote learning. Each Wednesday we like to jazz up our lessons with fun, hands on experiments to video and share with our students. I can not wait until tomorrow to try the exploding snowman! My students are going to be thrilled.
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