Explosion Experiments For Kids

Hello, our darling readers here we again come with some interesting craft and art ideas to make your day brighter.  Today we are going to suggest to you some mind-blowing explosion experiments that will blow away your mind. Naturally, we are all familiar with some little explosion experiments accidentally right! The most common one is blasting a coke bottle, right?  you all know that it happens mistakenly shake coke bottles before opening and it results in ruining your dress or something. Sometimes you might be done this for mischief. It becomes a fun memory. In this article, you’re going to find out some very interesting activists that you can do with these explosion experiments. So, let’s dig in more.

Explosion Experiments For Kids

Water Bottle Popper Fun Experiment

In this experiment, you can make a shooter by using bottle caps like a rocket. How? That’s how science works. You just need to twist a bottle. And It will be a very fun experiment for all of you and you can better understand the concept of pressure.

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Difficulty level

• Very Easy

Materials required

•  An empty plastic bottle.

This all experiment is based on pressure. You just need to collect a plastic bottle and twist it from the middle for creating pressure. You will twist the bottle until it can’t twist furthermore. You’ll just slowly take off the cap then it will just shoot off. You have to notice the vapors coming from it and how cloudy the bottle is after the cap shoots off.

Cool Dinosaur Exploding Mud Experiment

This experiment will be one of the coolest explosions ever. As you’re going to free some toy dinosaurs with this amazing science skill. You will have fun doing this with your friends. So, let’s learn more.

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Difficulty level

• Easy

Materials required

• Baking Soda
• Coffee Grounds
• Sand
• Green Food Dye or Kool-Aide
• Vinegar
• Water
• Tools for Play( small dinosaurs)

First, you will make the rocks with an entire box of baking soda (16 oz), two cups of coffee grounds, sand to desired texture, and a couple of drops of green food dye and mix all the items in a bowl, and create balls of dirt. The rocks will dry for 3-4hours. Then you will put your toy dinosaurs in a box inside those rocks. Then you will out them by spaying half water and half vinegar mixer. It will be so cool.

Amazing Elephant Toothpaste Making Experiment

Making elephant toothpaste will not be so hard and large. You will get to know it soon. It will be so fun as you’re going to make it y an explosion. It will be so easy and fun. So, let’s start.

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Difficulty level

•  Easy

Materials required

• Plastic glass or bottle
• 3 Tablespoons of Warm Water( not so hot)
• 2 Teaspoons of Yeast
• Hydrogen Peroxide ( hair bleach, dye or toothpaste, or mouthwash)
• Food coloring
• Soap of dishwashing

You just need to put the dishwashing soap, the food coloring, and the peroxide in a  plastic bottle. Then in another container, you will mix the warm water with the yeast. Now,  you will just put that yeast mixture into the previous bottle and watch the EXPLOSION!

Mind-blowing Apple Volcano with Erupting Apple Science

Using the apple as a Volcano! must be sound like a crazy thing to you. But it will not be that crazy instead it will be crazy awesome. And you will never forget this in your life. What science can do to this apple?  For knowing Let’s do some crazy erupting apple science.

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Difficulty level

• Easy

Materials required

• Apples
• Baking Soda
• Vinegar
• Container
• Knife

You will put an apple on a dish or plate, then with help of an adult, you will cut a hole or vessel in the top of the apple about halfway down. Put a spoonful of baking soda inside the hole. You can few drops of food coloring if you want. To be more creative mix it up and pair different colors with different apples. Then you will pour a cup of vinegar into the apple. You will Pour straight from a cup into the apple that will produce a more dramatic volcano effect. It will be so a colorful and beautiful volcano.

Eruptions Art Experiment with Soda Bottle

This will be a simple but not so simple explosion experiment. It will be more of an art than an explosion activity. Why? to find out you need to know it works. It will be so cool and beautiful.

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Difficulty level

• Easy

Materials required 

• clear soda (Sprite)
• Mentos
• tempura paint
• Watercolor paint

You need to get a sprite bottle of 2 liters as it’s the cheapest. Then you will pour out some of the sprite put for better eruption. then, you will put watercolors or tempera paint inside the bottle. Then put 4 or 2 mentos inside it depend on the quantity. Then, watch the eruption when it will begin.

Glowing and Exploding Shiny Bag Experiment

This experiment will be so shiny and glittering that you won’t believe it. Just follow some steps and a shiny science experience will be here.

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Difficulty level

• Easy

Materials required:

• Glow in dark vinegar
• Zip seal bags
• Baking soda
• Toilet paper
• Posterboard

First you will make the glow-in draw vinegar, by adding  1 cup of vinegar and into a dollop of paint. Use different paint on each bag. Then you’ll circle the toilet paper and make balls with them by putting baking soda inside. Then the explosion will occur which will be very shiny.

Erupting Ice Chalk Recipe

On hot summer days, all you can think of is cold water and ice. So, playing with ice will be a great idea right! But you’re going to make ice chalk with eruptions. It will be so amazing!

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Difficulty level

• Easy

Materials required

• Cornstarch
• Baking soda
• Food coloring/ liquid watercolor
• Ice cube trays
• Vinegar
•  Squeezy bottles
• Water

This is so easy you need to mix baking soda and cornstarch into a cup then will put some color and water into it. Then you will put each color into the ice tray. You’ll put the ice into the freezer for some time then take out them and put them into vinegar to see the coloring explosion.

Colorful Fuzzy Gelatin Experiment

Can you make gelatin fuzzy? Yes, you can. We are huh going to show you how!

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Difficulty level

• Easy

Materials required

• Gelatin
• Baking soda
• Vinegar
• Liquid watercolor

You need to make sure while making gelatin you will add an amount of baking soda and liquid color. Then when the gelatin is ready put them into vinegar to see the fizzing.

A Splatters Pattern Explosion Experiment with Paint

An Explosion experiment with splatters! Sounds cool right. It will so colorful as you’re going put colors into them. So, let’s see what you need to do.

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Difficulty level

• Easy

Materials required

• A large tray / hard surface
• watercolors or paint
• Water balloons

  This activity is super easy. You just need to fill some water balloons with different colors and water. Then you’ll throw them from top to a large tray or surface one by one to mix the color and have more fun.

Fun Toy Car Explosion Experiment

Car wash with an explosion! Sounds cool right! You’re going to do it for real. So, let’s learn the whole process.

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Difficulty level

•  Easy

Materials required

• Baking Soda
• Vinegar
• Toy cars
• Tray.

Put some baking soda in a long tray and play with some toy car in it like it’s snow. Then after a while, put a cup of vinegar into it and the fizzing will be started and the cars will be washed.

Amazing Colorful Fizzy Water Fireworks

You all see fireworks in the sky right! But you’re going to see them in the ground. It will a very fun experiment which will make your day. So, let’s see.

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Difficulty level

• Easy

Materials required:

• vinegar
• baking soda
• measuring spoon
• spray bottle
• water
• coffee filters
• contact paper
• tape
• food coloring

First, you will cover your table with sticky contact paper and secure its eves with tape. Then you’ll put coffee filters over it. Then you’ll make a vinegar and water solution in a spray bottle. Then you will put baking soda in it. Then put food coloring while spraying the water-vinegar solution. The fizzing will be started then.

Fizzy Sidewalks Explosion Experiment with Paint

You would see shiny sidewalks in real life but you can make it possible with the help of science. How? Then read further.

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Difficulty level

• Easy

Materials required

• A container of baking soda ( 8 oz box)
• 1/2 cup of cornstarch
• Warm (almost hot) water
• Vinegar
• Food coloring

You will mix thrall dry materials in water like baling soda, cornstarch, different food coloring. Then a mixture of put the different coloring in the ground like sidewalks. Then you’ll spray vinegar into them and the fizzing eruption will be started.

Shiny Volcano Explosion Experiment

A shiny volcano experiment sounds so amazing right! It will be visually so appealing that you’re gonna love it. So, let’s see what you will do.

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Difficulty level

• Easy

Materials required

• Baking soda
• Fluorescent paint/ Glow-in-dark paint
• Vinegar
• Cups/ bowls

You will begin by adding approximately baking soda (1cup) to a bowl or container, wielding one bowl for each color of glow volcano that you want to make. Then put glowing color in each bowl and add some vinegar and the explosion will be started.
You have discovered a lot about the eruption art experience in this article. But this will be a little different as it will be a soap-making activity. And it will be so fun.

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Difficulty level

• Easy

Materials required

• A bar of Ivory soap (no substitutions allowed)
• A microwave-safe plate
• A microwave

This activity is so easy. You just need to put the soap bar on the microwave plate put it in the microwave for 2 minutes when the explosion starts you can stop the microwave. You’ll watch the soap grow bigger! When it stops put out the plate.

Mind-blowing Ice Volcano Explosion Experiment

A volcano of ice might sound unbelievable to you. But in this experiment, it’s going to happen! How? Let’s read further then.

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Difficulty level

• Easy

Materials required

• small bowls
• balls that will sink
• Baking soda
• Vinegar
• Cutter
• Food coloring
• plastic wrap
• Some room in the freezer.

You need to take a glass bowl and put a golf ball into and put a plastic wrapper over it. Then you will put food color, water, and baking soda into it. Then you’ll let it freeze in the freezer for some time. Then you cut out a hole from the ball then you’ll put some vinegar into it and watch the explosion.

Amazing Mentos Geysers Experiment

This experiment is going to be so fun as you will be watching a geyser. And this will be done with some mentos! Yeah, you read right!

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Difficulty level

• Easy

Materials required

• A package of Mentos
• A 2-liter of diet soda (dark-colored works best like Coca-Cola)
• Tape
• A piece of construction paper

Take a piece of construction paper and cut a piece of it and roll it like a cylinder. Then unwrap a mentor and put inside of it put your hand in its bottom to protect the mentor from falling. And put the coke bottle in your yard and put the mentor carefully through the cylinder paper. Then watch the glycome came out.

Cool Milk Exploding Experiment

Milk is one of everyone’s daily needs. So using it to an exploring experiment will be incredible. So, let’s start.

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Difficulty level

• Easy

Materials required

• Milk
• Dish soap in a small cup
• Food coloring
• Toothpicks
• Baking Soda
• Vinegar
• Bowl or container for milk

You need to add milk into a container. Then you will add food coloring into it then will add a toothpick with some dishwashing soap. You can also mix different food colors into it.  Then you’ll add baking soda and vinegar to it and the explosion will be started.

Amazing Exploding Peep Geysers Experiment

An explosion experiment with peeps! It will be so amazing geysers you can not believe. It will be amazing!

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Difficulty level

• Easy

Materials required

• A small Gatorade bottle
• 3 Peeps
• A Microwave

This step is so easy you just need to put 3 peeps inside a Gatorade bottle Ir plastic or plastic bottle. Then put it in a microwave than when the explosion starts slowly take it out.

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Difficulty level

• Easy

Materials required

• Small plastic containers
• Rainbow food coloring
• White vinegar
• Baking soda
• An easy-to-clean hard surface with a little soap and water.

You need to set up the small plastic containers and put baking soda into them. Then put the food coloring like the rainbow in the baking soda. Then you’ll put the vinegar inside them to see the explosion.

These are some quite amazing explosion experiments you can do in your science class or home. We hope this article helps you in a good way. Your opinions are the most important thing for us as you know so we hope you let us know your thoughts in the comments below. Keep supporting and loving us.

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