Color Fizzers from Timberdoodle Review

Today I want to share with you a fun product from Timberdoodle, Color Fizzers!  Color Fizzers are manufactured by Steve Spangler Science and are geared for all ages.  They come in a pack of 100 with an assortments of primary colors - red, yellow and blue.  Our Color Fizzers, also known as tub tints, came with an activity guide too.  Although our fizzers are the size of a small candy, each tablet can color up to 1 liter of water.  I appreciate that they are non-toxic and don't stain hands or surfaces.  They will stain fabrics and porous surfaces though so watch out for those!

 

The tan one is the yellow fizzer, the reddish-gray one in the middle is the red fizzer, and the blue one is the blue fizzer of course.

Getting ready for Activity 1.

 

 

The guide gives directions for an activity, which is making all seven of the colors of the rainbow (ROYGBIV) using the three primary colors.  It recommended using distilled water so we did.  The younger kids really enjoyed mixing the colors and learning which combinations create the various colors.

G dropped in the tablet to make blue.

E dropped in the tablet to make red.

And F dropped in the tablet to make yellow.

Once the kids had the three primary colors made, we followed the activity guide for the various ratios to make orange, green, indigo and violet.

 

E added the colors to create orange.

It came out perfect!

F added the colors to make green.

G added the colors to create indigo.

 

I mixed the colors to create violet.

The kids with our rainbow of colors.

And a close-up of our colors.

The guide explain how our color fizzers work.  They are made with pigments, citric acid, baking soda and a binder.  Since all of these ingredients are water soluble, once in water, the citric acid and baking soda react to release carbon dioxide gas (hence the fizz) and the pigments mix creating vibrant, fun colors.

 

Our activity guide has a nice vocabulary list to help young scientist improve their knowledge and understanding of scientific terms such as absorb, citric acid, pH indicator, water soluble, etc.  We haven't tried using our fizzers in other liquids yet but I think we will do this next!

Color Fizzers are currently a part of Timberdoodle's PreK Curriculum Kit.  They are certainly a fun way to teach children about the color wheel and color mixing.

 

Disclosure:  Huge shout out to Timberdoodle for selecting me as a Timberdoodle Blogger.  I received Color Fizzers in exchange for my honest review.  All opinions are my own.