Lime Juice and Baking Soda Experiment!

         I know I'm a few days behind... but it's been... well... interesting around here the last few days. Haha. Wednesday was Andrew's only day off so we had a mid-week weekend day where we went to the splash park near us and they had a blast. Yesterday I didn't get around to posting since I had to deal with a kid in my condo complex stealing a box I had gotten from Origami Owl... yeah... bad evening. ARGH. But...moving on. Before all the madness the last few days, we did a super fun science experiment that turned into an art project (well sort of...haha). Here is the link to where I found this experiment:

http://www.pisforpreschooler.com/home/lime-juice-and-baking-soda-experiment

       I got some little metal pans from the Dollar Tree, 2 for $1. Then I just spread a thin layar of baking soda on the bottom of the pan, and grated chalk onto it in different colored stripes. In retrospect, I think next time maybe I'll stick with 2 colors...after using 4 colors for a few minutes it just kinda turns into a really unattractive green/brown color. After I got that all ready, I called them into the kitchen (by the way you're REALLY gonna want to do this in the kitchen or somewhere fairly easy to clean...) and showed them the pans. Then I used that super handy flavor injector again and used it to squirt the whole pan with lime juice! It fizzed and bubbled and was pretty cool, and once we added enough lime juice, we used it to finger paint! The boys LOVED it and asked me to do it again the next day! I kinda had to go with a no on that one because there was baking soda everywhere! These pictures are totally for fun, and thanks to a constant flow of baking soda falling off of them when dry... not really able to be kept. But it was FUN!