Supplies

Directions

Have an adult cut the lemon in half. Place half of the lemon in a bowl or dish to catch your mess! Squeeze the other half of the lemon and save the juice for later
Next, take your craft stick and poke holes in the various sections of the lemon. This will help the reaction along a bit in the beginning.
Now you can place drops of food coloring around the different sections on the top of the lemon. Alternating with different colors of food coloring will give a fun effect. However, you can also stick with just a couple of colors or even one-color!
Pour some Dawn dish soap all over the top of the lemon. What does dish soap do? Adding dish soap to a reaction like this will also produce a bit of foam and bubbles!
Sprinkle a generous amount of baking soda onto the top of the lemon. Then you can go ahead and use a craft stick to press some of the baking soda down into the different sections of the lemon to get the eruption going.
Wait a few minutes for the reaction to begin taking place. Slowly, your lemon will begin to erupt into a variety of colors. Additionally, you can use the craft stick to mash the lemon and baking soda around a bit more!
You can add some additional baking soda when the first round of erupting has taken place to continue the reaction.
Pour your extra lemon juice from the other half onto the lemon to continue the reaction!