Scientific Explorer My First Fizzy Foamy Science Kit

Bought as a birthday present for my partners young brother, he absolutely loved it!

This was lots of fun. Did it with a four year old who was probably a little young. Her attention span wasn’t long enough to care about the process. She was only interested in the results. But it gave fun results. And I think it would be great for a little older (and it is actually marketed to)

I bought this as a birthday gift for my nephew. I also shopped for the extra things needed to do the experiments. That way no one was put out if he ran out of the things provided by the kit or things needed that was not in kit. He loved it and played all day doing experiments some over and over. Great gift for any child interested in science.

I bought this looking for a science kit that wasn't slime. There are way too many slime things out there at the moment!As you'd guess from the name, a lot of this kit is basically "fun with baking soda and vinegar" except for instead of vinegar it provides citric acid powder for your little scientist to dissolve in water. But there are good suggestions in the booklet for helping to guide your child towards more real scientific thinking (I kinda have a pet peeve about calling it "science" when you just mix stuff together to go poof, fizz, boom, whatever and leave it at that, and all the products out there that lead kids to think that to be "science" it has to change color, fizz, or blow up!) - adjusting amounts and observing/recording how that affects the amount of and time of fizzing, etc. Instead of liquid food coloring there are color tablets like those in egg dyeing kits.The pieces included are nice (cups, stir sticks, measuring spoon); be prepared to use some additional containers (raid the recycling bin!) to do extension activities, and a plastic shoebox or dishpan or something to keep mess contained.My daughter (6) needs/wants my help to use it and we only can when the toddler naps, so we haven't done all the activities yet but they look like they will be good, and there are extensions for most if not all of them in the instruction booklet. Some of them do ask for other materials/ingredients not included in the kit but it's all things pretty much anyone would have in their kitchen already.There might not be much you can't just do with regular kitchen materials, but it's still worth it especially to give as a gift - this nice little box is a lot more appealing than a grocery bag of random stuff and really it probably doesn't cost a lot more than it would to buy all the equivalent items at the supermarket!

This kit has 7 experiments with easy to understand explanations for the chemical reactions between the citric acid and the baking soda. There is just enough baking soda and citric acid to do the listed 7 labs. If you do the "fun things to try" section, you will not have enough ingredients to do all the listed experiments. As this is a basic acid/base neutralization kit, older kids will not be thrilled with this. All of the experiments were easy to read and all of them worked. An easy kit for a beginner to do as a weekend project.

I hate wasteful packaging and the box to this kit could be half the size and still contain all its pieces. Also, I'd say the age range for this is pretty appropriate as I think a child older than five would get bored extremely quickly. I'd only recommend this product if you don't want to spend the time getting some supplies together. Otherwise, you'd be able to find everything you get in this kit from around your kitchen and the dollar store for less than what you are spending here.