Making Fizzy Moon Rocks
After learning more about actual moon rocks and soil samples brought back to Earth during the Apollo missions, let's make our own fizzy Moon rocks. Can we recreate some of the features in real Moon rocks?
Cost: $3
Equipment
- 1 large box Baking soda You will need 3 to 4 smaller boxes or one of the larger boxes
- 1 large Bottle of white vinegar You don't want to run out right in the middle of the big fizz!
- Different colors of acrylic paintt
- 4 to 6 small bowls
- 8 to 10 ounces of Water
- 3-4 spoons for stirring
- paper towel
- Pipette, turkey baster, medicine dropper We used spoons.
Instructions
- Pour about 1/2 cup of water into a bowl
- Add a few "globs" of acrylic paint to color the water. I much prefer acryclic paint over food coloring; the paint does not stain like food coloring
- Stir the paint in. Add more paint, if you'd like.
- Sprinkle glitter into the paint and water mixture.
- Pour some baking soda into a bowl, then add the colored water. Start off with a small amount of baking soda, then you can always add more.
- Add some extra glitter ;)
- When the mixture is a consistency where it doesn't stick too much to your hand, roll into balls and place on a flat baking sheet. We used reusable foil sheet pans.
- Place in the freezer for six hour.
- Remove and ready the white vinegar. Use a pipette, dropper, or spoon to drop vinegar onto the moon rocks.