Fizzy Gingerbread Man Christmas Science Experiment

You know what? It’s amazing how much more fun and magic Christmas can add to things that may be seen as normal or everyday. We’ve been doing baking soda and vinegar reactions for years. YEARS. They are fun but when we added a little festive flair, my daughter was wide eyed like she had never seen it before! Needless to say, this Fizzy Gingerbread Man Christmas Science Experiment was a huge hit! Children from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, to first grade students will enjoy this Christmas Science Activities perfect for making learning fun in December.

Gingerbread Man Science Experiment

This Gingerbread Man Experiment is such a fun way to help kids explore science with a fun Christmas theme for the holiday season! This Christmas Science Experiment is perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and grade 1 students and it only uses 3 simple materials! In this chemistry science experiment for kids, children will observe the baking soda and vinegar reaction while having playful fun with a Christmas Science activity.

Christmas Science Experiment

It is beyond easy. Like 3 ingredients, easy.

Vinegar
Baking Soda
Cinnamon, Nutmeg, allspice, candy cane pieces, or other Gingerbread spices
Gingerbread Man Cookie Cutter

Christmas Science Activities

Start by putting the gingerbread man cookie cutter on a baking sheet or in a baking dish. You want something to collect the eruption!

Mix together your base ingredients: baking soda and gingerbread spices. You can do this in a bowl or you can just dump baking soda into the inside of the cookie sheet and sprinkle it with the spices. Completely up to you!

Christmas Science

Next up, when you’re ready, pour the vinegar onto the baking soda. Be ready because it is going to fizz up crazy good! It is such a fun reaction to watch. Plus, after the fizzy starts to die down a bit, the spices mix up with the vinegar to create bubbles. That was unexpected but so fun!

Christmas Experiment

The smell is fantastic before anything even starts. I like adding sensory aspects to any other activity, like science experiments. It adds an extra element that is perfect for encouraging learning.

Besides being an easy Christmas science experiment for kids to watch a simple chemical reaction, baking soda and vinegar are actually effective cleaners that together can kill bacteria!

Baking soda will quickly react with vinegar creating carbon dioxide gas as one of its products, causing the bubbles and expansion. Just like carbon dioxide bubbles in a carbonated drink, the carbon dioxide (that was formed when you mixed the acid and the base) will rise to the top of the mixture. This creates the bubbles and foam you see when you mix baking soda and vinegar. If you mix a large amount of baking soda and vinegar in a small container with a narrow opening, expect an impressive eruption! Many science teachers use this simple chemical reaction to teach students about chemistry