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Quick Bottle Rockets With Baking Soda & Vinegar

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Are you ready for another easy baking soda and vinegar experiment?  We LOVE to make these quick bottle rockets made with baking soda and vinegar!    They are  so easy to put together that I really don’t mind doing it. Some science experiments are on repeat at our house because my kids love to do them so much! What do you say? Do you want to learn how to make a bottle rocket?
Easy Baking Soda & Vinegar Bottle Rockets

How to Make a Bottle Rocket

Supplies you’ll need:

baking soda vinegar rockets supplies

Corks
Small plastic bottles (water bottles or small soda bottles work great)
Baking Soda
Vinegar
Small squares of tissue paper or toilet paper
Funnel

Pour about an inch worth of vinegar into the bottom of the bottle.

Put about a teaspoon of baking soda onto the tissue square and fold it up (this will create a time-release packet).

how to make bottle rockets

This is most definitely an outside project!  You can get as messy as you want. When you are ready to watch it explode, drop the baking soda packet in, put on the cork- tight, but not too tight- and let it explode.  Place it cork side down to watch it fly!

Baking soda and vinegar bottle rockets

You can do it two different ways.  Right side up, the cork just pops out.  If you do it with the cork side down, the bottle flies up- that is lots more fun!  It happens so quickly that it surprises you!

Watch us make our bottle rockets:

How Does the Baking Soda & Vinegar Bottle Rocket Work?

 The reaction between the baking soda and vinegar is an acid-base reaction. When the two combine, a gas is released. With the cork stopping the gas from escaping, the force of the gas pushes the cork out making the bottle fly! This makes a most fabulous science experiment that kids are obsessed with!
Be sure to really stock up on Baking Soda and Vinegar, because they will want to do it over and over again! 🙂
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8 Comments

  1. Hi,
    loved this so much I featured it on this week’s Mom’s Library! Hop over and grab a ‘I was featured on Hey Mommy, Chocolate Milk” button!
    Also, we are having a great Christmas Give-Away to raise awareness for the Ornaments 4 Orphans organization!
    Can’t wait to see what you have to link up this week!

    Julie @ Hey Mommy, Chocolate Milk
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  2. Best day!!! I was looking at making a bottle rocket for an activity coming up and just clicked on a link without lookin at the website, and I see the cutest video with one of my college roommates in it. It was so wonderful seeing your beautiful face. And you made the rockets look very easy and doable.

  3. Can you tell me if you use water bottles that the cork does not fit can you put duct tape around the cork
    Should you also use pencils?

    1. You want the cork to be able to easily pop out. If you used duct tape to make the cork a little bigger, that would probably work, but do not tape it to the bottle. Not sure what you mean about the pencils?

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