Summers means it’s time to do some engaging science experiments outside! Bottle rockets are always popular among kids! While they’re enjoyable to build, it’s even more fun to see how high they can launch, and it makes the excellent STEM activity for kids either at home. Kids will enjoy making a soda bottle rocket with simple household materials such as baking soda and vinegar. This exciting science activity is easy to do and will definitely surprise your kids. This is a fun outdoor activity for kids of all ages. Who imagined that baking soda and vinegar had that much power? If you haven’t made and launched water rockets with your kid, you’re missing out on an outstanding project. With a few bucks or so worth of parts, an air pump, and an empty soda bottle or two, you can have a blast of an afternoon and learn some basic rocket science.
About Water Bottle Rocket Activity
Water bottle rockets are one of the most entertaining ways of learning about science. With one easy project, we can train our kids’ essential concepts like acceleration, gravity, inertia, and even Newton’s law of motion. While it’s fun to pretend like education is the best part, few things beat sending your very own rocket ship into the sky! In this case, the pressure vessel is a soda bottle, the reaction mass is plain water, and the pressurized gas is air pumped in with a bicycle pump. With these easy concepts, you can send a Coke bottle hurtling hundreds of feet into the air and impress all the other kids at the playground. Maybe it’s not as exceptional as the launch of an Apollo rocket, but we can bet Elon Musk’s first launch was a water rocket.
Supplies Required For Water Bottle Rocket Activity
- Empty soda bottle
- Laundry detergent lid
- Food pouch lid/small lid
- Wrapping paper/craft paper
- Hot glue gun/glue
- Craft foam
- Tape
Steps Involved In The Water Bottle Rocket Activity
- First of all, cut the bottom of the soda bottle off. Then cut a straight line to the top of the bottle and cut the neck of the soda bottle off.
2. Now fit the remaining bottom portion of your soda bottle inside the groves of your laundry detergent lid. Tape the soda bottle closed.
3. Then remove the soda bottle and cover it with paper and secure with tape. Now, fill the grove of the laundry detergent lid with hot glue and replace the soda bottle to secure the two pieces together. Hot glue the food pouch lid to the front of the rocket.
4. After this, cut out 4 triangles from the craft foam and hot glue them to the sides of the rocket.
5. You may also put some glow in the dark paint on our rockets to play with under our black light.
Launch Safely!
Make sure that the rocket should be launched by an adult with children away from the launching area. Have them spread out to act as “rocket watchers” so that they can locate it after the launch. The rocket is best launched in an open area like a sports field or open lot so that you can easily locate it and so that you don’t have to climb your neighbor’s wall to recover it. Again, keep kids back during this phase. We hope this activity inspires kids and teens to use their problem-solving skills to find answers to impossible challenges and help shape a better future.
