Fizzy Bat Experiment Your Kids Will Love

If you are searching for a fun way to introduce bats to your child, give this fizzy bat experiment a try! You’ll love it, too!

Bats are fascinating creatures that eat large amounts of bugs helping us keep the population of pesky mosquitoes under control.

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A single bat can eat 1000 misquotes in an hour. That can make a huge difference to your comfort in the summer months. These cute bats won’t eat any bugs but they will keep your kids busy while you get something else done.

As a parent, time is precious. There’s no mystery to that. And trust me, it’s not “batty” at all to find a great craft to help entertain and educate your little ones!

If you’ve been searching for an activity that is fun and festive, you’ll love this fizzy bat experiment for sure! And for more fun, check out other Fizzy Experiments Your Kids Will Love.

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Fizzy Bat Experiment Your Kids Will Love

I love experiments like this! Since it’s all about bats, this would be super fun for a Halloween experiment or a fun fall activity to get geared up and ready for fall. The fun thing about this bat experiment is that it’s a great way to keep the kid’s attention and have them wanting to learn even more!

Recommended Bat Books for Kids

Learn more about these amazing mammals. Did you know bats are divided into two groups? Megabats and microbats and they each have their own characteristics and vary in diet and size.

If you have great books about bats like the ones listed below, you can extend the learning resource for the kids so that they want to stay engaged and active during your bat lessons!

Even if you’re just wanting to do the activity and then pair up some fun books, you’ll be amazed at how good these books are! You can easily create a whole lesson around bats for the kids.

And if you live in an area where there are bats to look at, head out the door at night and see if you and the kids can find any bats flying around!

National Geographic Readers: Bats Bats Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)Bats at the Beach (A Bat Book)Bats: An Illustrated Guide to All Species I Am Bat

Supplies needed for Fizzy Bat

The following list of supplies is all you’ll need for this activity. Besides the cookie cutter, you probably already have everything right in your home.

Baking soda
Vinegar
Flat tray or pan
Small bowl
Spoon
Paper towel
Bat cookie cutters
Black or brown food coloring or watercolor paint

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How to Make a Fizzy Bat

Mix a small bit of food coloring into a small bowl of baking soda. Use water to thin it out as needed. Keep adding more food coloring until you hit the shade you like best. If you add too much water add more baking soda to create a thick paste similar to a thick toothpaste.

Press colored baking soda paste into cookie cutters.

Use a paper towel to soak up excess liquid off the top and clean around the edges.

Remove the cookie cutters. Repeat for more bats. You can use this fun activity to make as many bats as you want. Make certain that the kids are helping in the process! This is great for learning to follow directions, too!

Let your children play, encourage them to touch the bats before you make them fizz. Then allow them to spray or dump vinegar onto the bats. Encourage kids to squish and feel the fizzing bats. What do they think a real bat feels like?

Mentally prepare yourself that this craft will be MESSY. Let your children put their hands in it and play around, and experiment with what it feels like!

After all, messes can be cleaned up easily, but memories made will last forever! Encourage your little ones to engage with this sensory play and see if they can use descriptive words to explain what they are feeling.

You can even turn it into quite an educational lesson as well by reciting facts about bats to them while they are making this fizzy bat.

The more that you can educate your children, the more interested they will be in learning as they get older!

Do you love bats? Also grab the bat life cycle for kids printables. What I love about printables is that they extend the learning and give a lot more information as well.

You can have the printables as a way to test their knowledge about the bats or to introduce them to another learning lesson as well!

Printables give the kids the chance to work at their own pace so that they can fill out their printable as they work through it.

Want to learn more about bats?

Get the Little Learners Print & Go Activity Kit: Bats for more bat activities including coloring, labeling pages and more.

Little Learners print and go activity kit bats

More Fizzy Experiments to Check out!

If the kids like STEM activities and experiments, why stop? This type of learning is perfect for creating a fun activity that they will look forward to doing! You can talk to them about what they liked and then create new ideas well.