Your little ones will love trying out this fun kids’ science experiment! This oil and water experiment takes science to a colorful new level. Science Experiments at Home for Kids on Frugal Coupon Living. Enjoy this fun water and oil activity!

Kids Science Experiments at Home | Oil and Water Experiment

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It’s a common saying that water and oil don’t mix, but do your kids know exactly why? Even without a full explanation, your little ones will love trying out this fun kids’ science experiment with water and oil! As a former teacher, I am all for easy science experiments that let kids learn about science at home. With that being said, this is a fantastic science experiment for elementary school teachers, too! Teachers shouldn’t have to pay extra for engaging activities for their students, and simple activities like these make everyone a winner.

The great thing about this oil and water experiment is that it’s both incredibly easy and that you probably have all the ingredients in your house already! Oil and water are incredibly inexpensive and easy to get a hold of. All you need for this fun kids’ science experiment are a few colors of food dye, water, cooking oil, eye droppers, and beakers or cups. Straws work too if you don’t have eye droppers on hand!

Letting your kids experiment with science at home doesn’t mean you have to spend extra on supplies. Pique their interest in the science field with an easy experiment that’s both informative and simple to create. They will love getting to perform this hands-on experiment, and the extension component allows them to learn the explanation of the experiment in simple terms that are made for kids. Your kids will feel like expert scientists when they get to perform this oil and water experiment! Enjoy!

How do you explain the oil and water experiment to kids?

Put simply, what’s happening is that the molecules of water can’t mix with the molecules of oil. Even if you try to shake up a bottle of half-oil and half-water, the oil just breaks up into smaller droplets, but it doesn’t truly mix with the water. Only the food coloring mixes with water. The oil will stay completely separate! Plus, the oil will always float on top of water because oil is less dense. This experiment is a great way to begin a discussion about density and how liquids interact when they are mixed together.

Oil and Water Experiment

Supplies:

• Cooking oil
• 2 cups water, divided
• Food coloring
• Straws or eye droppers

Directions:

1. Fill up a small jar or bottle with cooking oil (it’s fun if each kid has their own!).
2. Place 1/4 cup of water in 4 separate containers.
3. Dye each water filled container a different color with just a drop or two of food coloring and mix.
4. Set your straw (or eye dropper) into one container of colored water, place your fingertip over the top of the straw, and drop the colored water into the oil by lifting your fingertip off the straw.
5. Watch how the oil and colored water droplets separate.

Explanation and questions for the oil and water experiment:

Oil and water separate when combined because water is denser than oil. It causes the colored water droplets to sink when added to the jar of oil.

Encourage your kids to play around with this experiment. Ask them further questions including, when combining different colors do they seek to join together? Do they seem to seek to join together more over time?

Explain density and ask your kids or students which is denser, water or oil? (The oil floats, showing that it’s less dense than water.)

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We have plenty of science experiments to try out at home. Take a look at our Kids Science Experiments at Home | Baking Soda and Vinegar. Pin to Pinterest.

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Science Experiments at Home for Kids on Frugal Coupon Living. Take a look at the chemical reaction produced from baking soda and vinegar!

Kids Science Experiments at Home | Baking Soda and Vinegar

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The kids and I love to do crafts at home. Sometimes they enjoy it a little bit more than me! However, I try to be a good mother and do what I can to create excitement at home that is minimal and is an easy clean up. The former teacher in me, also makes sure the activity has some education involved. This baking soda and vinegar experiment is creative, crafty and something you as a mother can walk away from as they have fun playing with the patterns and colors – I think you can get away with telling them it is art!

So a quick description so you and your child understand what is going on. Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) and vinegar (acetic acid) react with each other because of an acid-base reaction. One of the products this reaction creates is carbon dioxide, which creates all the fizzing as it escapes the solution.

Hey Mom! Did you know that you can unclog a drain with baking soda and vinegar! Pour a pot of boiling hot water down your drain and then ad about 1/2 cup of baking soda. Let that sit for a bit. After, pour 1 cup vinegar and 1 cup very hot water. Cover your drain with a plug to keep the chemical reaction going down. Let sit 5 to 10 minutes and flush out with more hot boiling water!

Baking Soda and Vinegar

Supplies:

• 3 cups baking soda
• 3 colors of food coloring
• 16 oz bottle of vinegar
• Straws
• 9×13″ baking pan

Directions:

1. Separate your baking soda evenly into 3 bowls, 1 cup in each.
2. Add several drops of food coloring to each bowl to turn each cup of baking soda a different color.
3. Mix your baking soda and food coloring together, you will have to use your fingertips as the food coloring tends to clump together.
4. Pour your colored baking soda into your baking pan and lightly shake the pan so it spreads out evenly.
5. Place your straw into your bottle of vinegar, place your finger tip on the top of the straw to hold the vinegar inside the straw, lift over to the pan of baking soda, and release your finger.
6. You will notice the reaction of the vinegar combining with the baking soda.

Extension:

When baking soda and vinegar are combined they create an chemical reaction. Baking soda is a bicarbonate and vinegar is an acetic acid it creates carbon dioxide and water.

Have the kids place the vinegar where the colors connect too, do they mix together and make new colors?

Take a look at our Balloon Blow Up Experiment with Baking Soda and Vinegar! Have fun!

Have fun with science! Take a look at these Five Minute Science Experiments for Kids you can do in your home! Pin to Pinterest and save for later!

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WHAT’S TRENDING? Looking for a few engaging activities? Grab Minute to Win it Games – Traditional, Holiday, Group, and more! Use these fun activities in the office, classroom, or at your next birthday party.