If your kids are like mine, then they are so excited for snow this winter. To help them wait it out, make a snowstorm in a jar instead!

This is one of those classic experiments that never grows old. Simply stir together 1 teaspoon white paint and 1 cup water in the bottom of a mason jar. Fill nearly the rest of the way with baby oil.

Now drop in Alka-Seltzer tablets, one at a time. Veronika loved plopping these in!

The resulting bubbles will immediately make the white paint rise up and then down again, a little snowstorm in miniature.

If we added two tablets in at once, it was more like a blizzard!

After watching for a little while, we decided it would look even prettier in blue stormy skies, so added a few drops of blue food coloring.

It was a little harder to see the white paint as “snowflakes”, now, but Veronika was equally delighted watching this stormy sky.

We went through six Alka-Seltzer tablets before she tired of it!