Comments on: Backyard science: How to make your chalk drawings fizzy

By: Christina

Christina — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:25:32 +0000

Watch out with this one!!

I usually love all your Rookie Mom suggestions – but this one turned out haszardous for my toddler on the 4th of July! We had fun with the chalk, but then I got a spray bottle of vinegar out to spray over the chalk and baking soda. My 19 month old grabbed the vinegar spray bottle out of my hand and sprayed it into his face and right eye!!

We immeadiatly started rinsing his eye (pouring cups of water over his face) and called poision control. This can lead to a trip to the ER if you aren’t careful.

My poor baby was totally traumatized and it lead to a very depressing afternoon.

By: lisa

lisa — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:13:51 +0000

anyone know if this is bad to go down the storm sewers?? our sewer has a picture of a fish on it so not sure where exactly it goes.
Re;sand disposal…use it on your lawn, its good for the lawn and my husband empties the kids sandbox every year and rakes in into the lawn and then buys new playsand for the box.

By: Robin Krieglstein

Robin Krieglstein — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 17:50:18 +0000

Thanks for the great idea Whitney! Found your pin on Pinterest. We just spent the afternoon doing it and had a blast! We also tried coloring sand with chalk, mixing in the baking soda and pouring on the vinegar. Milan just loved it. Want to also try making a sand volcano this way…

Wendy – want to try that too!

By: Wendy Copley

Wendy Copley — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:02:15 +0000

We’ve been doing lots of baking soda and vinegar projects lately. The most recent success was a pinterest find where I filled a shallow pan with baking soda, then mixed different colors of food coloring with vinegar in a muffin pan (one color per hole) and let the kids drop it into the plate with an eyedropper.

By: Isobel

Isobel — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:37:00 +0000

Great idea and am gonna try it! By the way, you can probably find someone to take that sand away via Freecycle. I met some really nice folks through Freecycle who stuffed all my sand into pillowcases to use for sandbags for some kind of water reclamation project on their roof…Ah, Berkeley.