Who can’t use a little extra love chemistry in their lives? Especially when you have young kids…you know what I mean, don’t you!? Why not grab some basic ingredients out of your kitchen and set up this fun sensory-play Love Potion #9 Chemistry Experiment to get your kids exploring and thinking about the people in their lives!
This is a super fun activity to add into any Valentine’s Day Learning unit!
Love Potion is created with two main ingredients — Magic Love Powder and Liquid Love…
Items Needed for Love Potion #9:
- Kool-Aide Packets
- Baking Soda
- Water
- Vinegar {if desired}
The vinegar itself is not technically needed- your love potion will bubble and explode with just baking soda, kool-aide, and water. However, if you would like to keep those bubbles going after the initial reaction between the kool-aide and baking soda you will need to add in some vinegar.
Step One: Making the Magic Love Powder:
To make the powder fill the bottom of your cup with a packet of kool-aide and baking soda. We used two different flavors- Pink Lemonade and Fruit Punch. The Pink Lemonade created the light pink as seen at the very top of this post, while the Fruit Punch created a lovely blood red. Add in whatever additional ingredients your child may desire such as conversation hearts, gems, or glitter!
Step Two: Adding the Liquid Love:
To make Liquid Love we simply filled up a water bottle with about 1/3 cup vinegar and the rest water. It was a very diluted mix and did not have a strong vinegar smell at all. I have a pregnant momma nose right now so that no vinegar smell was super important!
Add the Liquid Love and watch the Magic begin!
We put our Magic Love Powder directly into the cup and then added the Liquid Love in so that the reactions would be slow.
And change in color as the different layers of kool-aide were exposed! This was such a fun science experiment!!
As the fizzing died down we stirred our potions some more to expose the bottom layer and send it bubbling back up!
The kids had a blast playing a game of I-Spy as various conversation hearts and gems started to appear through the fizz. Eventually the fizz completely died down and we had a fun sensory soup!
Once the chemical reactions had completely died down we dumped our love potions into a larger bin to continue our pretend-play with a fun sensory soup! This activity easily kept my kiddos entertained for an entire hour while encouraging them to explore their curiosity and creativity!
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The kool-aide will color skin and materials so it is recommended to do this activity with towels available and in play clothes!
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