{"id":5579,"date":"2015-04-02T11:21:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T16:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/?p=5579"},"modified":"2015-04-02T11:37:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T16:37:20","slug":"fizzing-easter-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/?p=5579","title":{"rendered":"Fizzing Easter Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What you need:<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5584\" style=\"margin: 3px 6px;\" alt=\"Fizzing Easter Eggs\" src=\"http:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Fizzing-Easter-Eggs.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Fizzing-Easter-Eggs.jpg 800w, https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Fizzing-Easter-Eggs-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><br \/>\n\u2022 Hard-boiled eggs<br \/>\n\u2022 Food coloring<br \/>\n\u2022 Baking soda<br \/>\n\u2022 Vinegar<br \/>\n\u2022 Bowls<br \/>\n\u2022 Paintbrushes<br \/>\n\u2022 Tongs<br \/>\n\u2022 Newspaper or paper towels<\/p>\n<p><strong>What you do:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Make a paste of baking soda and water and add a few drops of food coloring.\u00a0Repeat in separate bowls with as many colors as you\u2019d like.<br \/>\n\u2022 Using a paintbrush, apply the baking soda mixture to a hard-boiled egg (if the mixture is too thick and goopy, add more water, several drops at a time until it has thinned to the right consistency to spread easily).<br \/>\n\u2022 Once your egg is decorated the way you want it, set it in an empty bowl.<br \/>\n\u2022 Pour about \u00bd cup of vinegar directly over each egg and enjoy the colorful, fizzy reaction!<br \/>\n\u2022 Once the fizz has died down, use tongs to carefully fish your egg out of the liquid and set it on newspapers or a stack of paper towels to dry.<br \/>\n\u2022 Repeat with as many eggs as you like\u2014you\u2019ll find that the baking soda paint makes it easy to make more intricate designs on your egg than ordinary egg dye would!<\/p>\n<h4><em>What Happened:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A basic chemical reaction between the baking soda (which is a base) and the vinegar (an acid) is what caused all the fizzing and bubbling! The baking soda made a type of paint when you mixed it with water and food coloring. After the chemical reaction, the baking soda and vinegar were mostly used up, leaving the dye behind on the eggs.<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Looking for more egg science?<\/strong> <a title=\"Easter Crafts\" href=\"http:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/?p=4049\">Click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What you need: \u2022 Hard-boiled eggs \u2022 Food coloring \u2022 Baking soda \u2022 Vinegar \u2022 Bowls \u2022 Paintbrushes \u2022 Tongs \u2022 Newspaper or paper towels What you do: \u2022 Make a paste of baking soda and water and add a few drops of food coloring.\u00a0Repeat in separate bowls with as many colors as you\u2019d like. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,27],"tags":[556,368,68,525],"class_list":["post-5579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-easter","category-holidays","tag-easter","tag-easter-crafts","tag-easter-eggs","tag-fizzing-easter-egg","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5579"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5587,"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5579\/revisions\/5587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}