I wanted to introduce QBoy and XGirl to shamrocks ahead of St. Patrick’s Day. We had done a fizzy paint activity for Valentine’s that they both enjoyed, so I decided to bring it back with a St. Patrick’s Day twist!
I prepared the following materials for this activity:
- Painting paper cut into a shamrock shape
- Green fizzy paint (see my Valentine’s heart fizzy painting post for info on how to make fizzy paint)
- A paint brush
- A small cup of vinegar
- A plastic pipette
Initially, I just presented the shamrock form on a tray and we talked about its significance for St. Patrick’s Day as well as its shape and color. At that point, I let the kids have the paint to begin turning their shamrocks green.
After they had completely filled in their shamrocks, I handed them the cups of vinegar with the pipette. QBoy decided to smell his vinegar and declared that it smelled bad. 
The kids then began adding vinegar to their shamrocks. There was a great bubbling effect as the vinegar came into contact with the baking soda in the paint.
These three pictures show the reaction between the baking soda and vinegar over the span of several seconds.
Lots of fun for St. Patrick’s Day! What will you and your kids be doing to celebrate?
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30 Responses to “Magic fizzing shamrocks”
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Oh, this looks like so much fun! I love the mix of art and science/discovery! Pinning now so I can try it later. Thanks for sharing.
What a fun idea! I pinned your post to my Kids’ St. Patrick’s Day Activities Board at http://pinterest.com/debchitwood/kids-st-patrick-s-day-activities/
Fun! I’m pinning this to my St. Patrick’s Day board…my son would really enjoy this!
Love this activity! I’ll be doing this with my boys soon!! Thanks for the idea.
Visiting you from TGIF at Living Life Intentionally. I love this idea!!! Looks like a lot of fun! I can’t wait to try it for St. Patrick’s Day!!! I also pinned it to my Holidays: St. Patty’s Day board on Pinterest http://pinterest.com/abreedlove/holidays-st-patty-s-day/
What a fun idea! I can see my kids going bonkers for this
I would love to invite you to link up at our Share It Saturday linky party. We have lots of creative ideas submitted each week and you would fit right in! http://www.sugaraunts.com/2013/03/share-it-saturday-9-and-our-week-in.html
Hope to see you there!
Colleen at Sugar Aunts
Great craft and I love the addition of the “fizz”. My boys would find that entertaining!
Just came across your site and I love it!! Please tell me where you got all those art trays from … I searched your site and the web but couldn’t find the same size. Thanks!!
I got them at Lakeshore Learning. Here’s a link to the product webpage if you want more info: http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/product/productDet.jsp?productItemID=1%2C689%2C949%2C371%2C898%2C055&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=1408474395181113&bmUID=1362283210775
We’ve used vinegar and baking soda for volcanoes, but you have come up with some awesome creative uses for it. I love the idea of using it as paint.
This looks like a really fun hands-on activity! I’m featuring it this week on Learn with Play at home. Thanks for linking it to Tuesday Tots. Have a great day
Thanks so much! Glad you like our activity.
Very Neat!
Thanks for sharing at Sharing Saturday!
It looks like your kids had so much fun with this craft!
Thanks for linking up to the Hearts for Home Blog Hop! Blessings!!
Hi! I’m co-hosting Mom’s library this week and I featured your magic fizzing shamrocks.
http://www.ready-set-read.com/2013/03/st-patricks-day-activities-for-kids-and.html
Thanks!
Thank so much!
We love this project so much, that we are featuring your post tomorrow on Share It Saturday. Stop by and visit if you like. http://www.sugaraunts.com. We will also be sharing with our FB and Twitter followers and pinning to our Share It Saturday Group Pinterest board. If you would like to check it out, here are the links:
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We hope to see your posts back at Share It Saturday again, we love your ideas
Colleen at Sugar Aunts
Thanks! I’m following you on Pinterest and I’ve liked you on Facebook! I would appreciate it if you could follow me back!
These are really neat! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!
This looks like so much fun!
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LOVE this. MUST “Steal” this idea from you. With proper credit of course.
Love this project! How does it look when it’s dry? Does the paint flake off?
For us the activity was about process rather than product, so we didn’t save it once we were done.
For all of the fizzy experiments we’ve done, I don’t think we’ve ever done one with painting. I might have to remedy that……
Thanks for linking up to Science Sunday!
I love your fizzing shamrocks. I’ve featured your post today on my blog. Thank you for sharing it on the weekly kids co-op!
Thanks so much for featuring my post!
What a brilliant activity – I love it!
A great selection – we love the rainbow fish so definitely checking that out.
Thanks for sharing on The Sunday Showcase. I’ve pinned to our board.
love how you combined some art with some fun science in this activity. I have featured you on this week’s Sunday Showcase.
Thanks so much for featuring our magic fizzing shamrocks!