Say that title 5 times fast, whew!
The little guy in these photos did this activity for nearly an hour and a half. The amount of time, focus, concentration, learning, and joy that developed during that period is what makes a teacher’s heart SING!
MATERIALS
- Baking Soda
- Vinegar
- Liquid Watercolors
- Eye Droppers
- Plastic Bear Counters
- Trays/Baking Sheets
- Cups
DIRECTIONS
- Line the trays with a shallow layer of baking soda (just thick enough so you don’t see the bottom of the pan).
- Fill your cups with vinegar and add a splash of liquid watercolors. Add one eye dropper to each cup.
- Set out all of the materials and let the children play! Our bears are red, yellow, green, and blue and I set out the matching colors of vinegar for the kids.
- Observe the kids line up, stack, and play with the bears and materials. When the kids squirt the vinegar on the bears and it lands on the baking soda it fizzes and bubbles and cracks the kids up!
- This activity is 100% open-ended and process-based with no final piece or intended result, but rather the joy comes from just doing – and being – and playing!
