Acids, Bases, and pH: Science Kit for Kids #ScienceSundays

Get kids excited about science with an acids, bases, and pH science kit for kids from Yellow Scope!

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After bring stuck at home, how many new hobbies did you pick up and retain? For many people, baking and cooking became a popular thing to dabble in over the last year. Maybe you are now a master of sourdough bread, embraced your Italian side with homemade pasta, or baked enough to run your own bakery.

Hopefully, while you’ve been experimenting in the kitchen, you were able to convince your kids to join you instead of being sucked into their computers/phones/video games 24/7. But it can be a struggle to get them interested in baking or cooking because it doesn’t seem exciting to them.

Yellow Scope Acid Base pH Science Kit Set Up

I may not be a mom, but thankfully my nephews Luke and Griffin are always down for playing in the kitchen. So when I was asked to try out some science kits from Yellow Scope I knew they would be a hit. Their science kits were created to get kids interested in discovering the world around them through fun and interesting experiments that turn them into little scientists.

From the Foundation Chemistry kit which can teach kids about the chemical reactions that happen in baking to the Acids, Bases and pH kit that lets kids discover the different tastes of liquids used in everyday meals. The kits come with everything they need, including safety goggles, to perform a wide variety of experiments and get interested in an activity in the kitchen, instead of at a screen.

Yellow Scope Acid Base pH Science Cabbage Chemistry Kit

Acids, Bases, and pH

Unfortunately, those two nephews (I have 6 BTW, no nieces yet) live in California so we couldn’t ditch the screen entirely, because we had a Zoom science play date! I had both the Foundation Chemistry kit and the Acids, Bases and pH kit sent to them, but I only got the latter so that’s the one we did together virtually.

As I mentioned earlier, the kits contain almost everything they need, including goggles! The things not included are the various household items that will be tested. The kit suggests starting with window cleaner, vinegar, baking soda, lemon juice, detergent, and water because it walks you through predicting if they are acids or bases and once performing the experiment you can compare your results with the kits predetermined results.

Yellow Scope Acid Base pH Science Kit for Kids

With the help of my brother, their father, we both gathered up various household items on our respective ends of the camera. Once reading about what makes an acid or a base and where they fall on the pH scale, we each made predictions as to where we thought eat item would fall on the pH scale. I was missing one of the household items so I tested out root beer instead!

With the addition of the purple cabbage “reagent” my nephews loved watching the colors change for each item, turning from plain white/clear to various shades or purple, pink, and blue (or stayed brown in the case of my root beer – neutral it is). We made sure to tilt of camera to share our results with each other too!

Yellow Scope Acid Base pH Food Science Kit

After comparing our results to the controls set out by the kit, we then went on to explore other items. THe kit offers various suggestions and we expanded upon that by pulling all kinds of things out of our refrigerators or random items around the house. Here’s how they turned out in our tests:

Cherry juice – neutral
Olive juice – a little basic
Milk – neutral, slightly basic
Seltzer water (fresh) – neutral
Lime juice – acidic
Sourdough starter – slightly acidic
Hand sanitizer – neutral
Bug spray – slightly basic
Bleach – strong base
Hot sauce- strong acid
Vodka – neutral

Yellow Scope pH of Food Science Sundays for Kids

The next experiment in the kit was not very Zoom-friendly as it involves making your own pH indicator with a red cabbage, but there is plenty of supplied red cabbage powder to perform other experiments!