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Christmas Science: Cheery Bubbling Christmas Lights

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Love Christmas? Love science?

Combine the two and make these Christmas science bubbling Christmas lights for pretty, holiday fun!

My in-laws have a string of ancient Christmas lights they break out every Christmas that when heated, cause some sort of liquid to bubble inside a bulb.

The lights are so old, they are probably a fire hazard. Still, for as long as we’ve been having Christmas with them, those lights are one of my favorite holiday traditions.

Although I believe you can now purchase new bubble lights that are safer, the lights themselves inspired this Christmas science project. We’ve made alka seltzer lava lamps before, and Monkey predicted that when placed in a Christmas light bulb, the effect would be similar.

She was definitely right!
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Love Christmas? Love science? Combine the two and make these Christmas science bubbling Christmas lights for pretty, holiday fun!

Related: 31 Days of STEM Activities for Kids

 

Christmas Science: Bubbling Christmas Lights

Love Christmas? Love science? Combine the two and make these Christmas science bubbling Christmas lights for pretty, holiday fun!

Want to make your own bubbling Christmas science Christmas lights? It just takes a few objects!

  • Plastic Christmas light ornaments (you’ll need ones with holes in the top)
  • Mineral oil
  • Blue, green, and red food coloring
  • Alka seltzer tablets
  • String
  • Large tray

If you don’t want to hang these lights from the Christmas tree (the open tops makes them messy), then you’ll need to set up a lab station like we did. I set out a large tray (we have this one) and tied a string between two mason jars weighted down with water. This created a tight enough string so the Christmas lights could hang from it without tipping over.

Fill your Christmas lights about 5/6 of the way full with oil. Fill the rest of the lights with colored water. We used red, blue, and green for our three lights.

Love Christmas? Love science? Combine the two and make these Christmas science bubbling Christmas lights for pretty, holiday fun!

Hang the filled lights from your tree or your hanging station.

Crumble an alka seltzer tablet into small pieces.

Slip the pieces one at a time into the Christmas lights. They will start to bubble immedeatly. The more tablet you add to the water, the more violently it will bubble. We were fans of the slower bubble.

Love Christmas? Love science? Combine the two and make these Christmas science bubbling Christmas lights for pretty, holiday fun!

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Filed Under: Christmas STEM Activities Tagged With: christmas, elementary

About Brenda Priddy

Brenda grew up thinking she hated science.

But when her 4-year- old daughter was more interested in reading science facts than fairy tales, Brenda realized she had to learn more about science to keep up with her daughter.

Through simple at-home science experiments, Brenda developed a passion for science and now acts as an advocate for STEM education for kids at her website STEAMsational.com.

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