Become a Bugstronaut Engineer!

Fizz. Pop. Fly!

Can you help Fizzbit the Bugstronaut return home?

This exciting hands-on STEM activity transforms children into real scientists as they investigate the perfect launch conditions for their bug-powered rockets. Every launch is packed with suspense, excitement, and scientific discovery!

Add water and a fizz tablet to the rocket tube, snap on the bug-topped lid, and wait…

At first, nothing seems to happen.

But inside the tube, something incredible is taking place. The tablet is fizzing away, releasing an invisible gas called carbon dioxide. The pressure builds higher… and higher… and then…

POP! WHOOSH!

Your Bugstronaut blasts into the air!

A Complete STEM Investigation Kit

Bring a little Fizz-Pop-Fly to Science Week! Bug Blaster gets pupils measuring, predicting and investigating through hands-on launching challenges. Teacher video guidance helps you get started, with a link to the support page sent when you purchase.

Bug Blaster isn’t just a rocket activity – it’s a complete scientific investigation that encourages children to:

Ask questions
Make predictions
Carry out fair tests
Measure and record results
Identify patterns
Draw conclusions
Think like real scientists and engineers.

Three Missions. One Bugstronaut. Endless Discoveries.

Mission 1 – The Launch Angle Challenge

Which launch angle makes your Bugstronaut travel the furthest?

Mission 2 – Fuel Efficiency Investigation

How many launches can one fizz tablet power?

Mission 3 – Launch Power Investigation

How does the amount of water affect your rocket’s performance?

Each mission encourages children to experiment, collect evidence, and improve their designs—just like real space engineers.

What’s Included?

Launch your Bugstronaut into the sky with this exciting fizz-powered rocket investigation kit. Decorate, experiment and discover the science of gas pressure and forces.

A classroom investigation kit for up to 30 pupils working in groups, with 10 reusable launchers, printed pupil resources and teacher guidance. Just add water and suitable eye protection.

10 reusable fizz rocket tubes

10 Bugstronaut toppers

5 tubes of effervescent fuel tablets (100 tablets)

30 Mission Complete Certificates

1  Printed Curriculum-Linked Teacher Guide – including launch instructions, safety guidance, scientific explanations, extension ideas and teacher support notes.

30  Printed Bug Blast Mission Log Booklets – an ink-saving pupil workbook featuring three exciting scientific investigations:

• Mission 1 – Launch Angle Challenge
• Mission 2 – Fuel Efficiency Investigation
• Mission 3 – Launch Power Investigation

Teacher Support Page: A dedicated support page with curriculum links, downloadable teaching materials and a step-by-step guidance video.

Plus…

Finally Home!

100 effervescent tablets supplied for your launch investigations. The number of launches per tablet varies with the conditions—discovering how many is part of Mission 2!

Reusable launchers and downloadable teaching resources for future investigations. Replenish tablets as needed and check tubes and lids for wear or damage before each session.

Minimal preparation required

Perfect for lessons, STEM clubs, science festivals and family events

Big launches. Big discoveries. Big smiles.

A still from Science2Life’s Bug Blaster teacher support video, featuring Scientific Sue demonstrating the equipment.

The Science Behind the Blast-Off

The fizzing tablets contain citric acid and sodium hydrogen carbonate (bicarbonate of soda).

Page 6 of the 14-page Fizz-Pop-Fly Teacher Mission Guide, providing scientific background, predicted results and teaching notes for the launch-angle investigation.

When they dissolve in water, they react to produce carbon dioxide gas.

Because the gas cannot escape, the pressure inside the tube increases.

Eventually, the pressure difference creates an outward force on the lid; when that force overcomes the lid’s grip, it pops off!

POP!

The lid launches into the air carrying your Bugstronaut with it.

Children explore:

Chemical Reactions
Gas Pressure
Forces and Motion
Variables and Fair Testing
Data Handling and Interpretation
Scientific Enquiry Skills

Bugstronaut Craft Zone

Before launch, children can personalise their rockets by decorating the tubes with stickers, drawings, colours, and mission logos.

Can you design your own space programme and give your rocket a mission name?

Because every great astronaut needs a great spacecraft!

Why Teachers Love It

Fully curriculum-linked STEM activity

Page from the 13-page Fizz-Pop-Fly Pupil Mission Booklet, where children receive an emergency transmission from Fizzbit and begin three exciting investigations to help launch him back into space.

Encourages scientific enquiry and investigative skills

Minimal preparation required

Highly reusable and cost-effective

Perfect for:

• Science lessons
• STEM clubs
• Science Week activities
• After-school clubs
• Transition programmes
• Family learning events

Suitable for ages 7–14 years.

Why Event Organisers Love It

• Huge WOW factor
• An exciting group activity, with children taking turns to launch, measure and record.
• Opportunities to decorate Bugstronauts and create their own mission designs.
• Easy to run with large groups
• Creates excitement and anticipation with every launch

Planning a make-and-take event? This kit includes 10 launchers. If you’d like every child to take one home, contact us to discuss quantities and pricing for your event.

Perfect for:

Science Festivals
Libraries
Holiday Clubs
Family Fun Days
Museums
Community Events
Birthday Parties

You’ll Also Need

• Water
• Paper towels (if working indoors)
• Small bucket for waste liquid
• Safety glasses or goggles

Mission Safety Checklist

Wear safety glasses or goggles when operating the launchers.

Activities must be supervised by an adult. Read the Teacher Guide’s preparation and safety instructions before starting.

Launch in a large, clear space, keeping spectators outside the launch and landing areas.

Point launchers away from people, pets, windows and other obstacles. Never lean over a loaded launcher.

No pop? The lid may not be fully clicked into place, allowing gas to escape. Follow the teacher guidance to remove the lid, reset the launcher and try again.

Collect Bugstronauts once launching has stopped and wipe up any spills.

More Than a Rocket Kit…

Bug Blaster combines:

Chemistry
Engineering
Physics
Mathematics
Creativity
Problem Solving

Children don’t simply launch rockets…

They become scientists on a mission to get Fizzbit safely home.

Because the best way to learn science… is to do science.

– Scientific Sue 

Sparks of imagination are at the heart of creativity!

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The pH Scale

Universal test papers for measuring pH levels. The pH indicates the acidity/alkalinity of a liquid.

Universal Indicator Paper is one of the most popular pH test papers on the market and suitable for many applications. They provide a quick and easy method of indicating the pH of a solution by using a single colour change which can be matched to the colour chart at intervals of 1 pH.

• pack of 80 strips
• standard colour card
  

  80 pH testing papers in a water tight plastic container

• high quality pH paper
• perforated strips for easy use
• Water-tight plastic container
• Strip have intervals of 1 pH unit

Directions

• Dip a strip of test paper into test solution for approximately 1 second and remove.
• Compare colour on test paper with colour chart within 5 seconds of removal.
• Colour produced will indicate the pH of the solution.
• For turbid liquid/suspensions place a drop of test liquid onto a strip of test paper. Use the spot on the reverse side of the test paper to compare with the colour chart.

Storage

• Keep unused test papers in their original plastic container
• Store in a cool dry place

A Little bit of Science:

FACTS ABOUT ACIDS

Acids have a low pH ( below 7 )

Acids turn pH paper red or orange

Acids taste sour.

Some acids can damage living cells.

Acids are neutralised by bases to make salts and water.

Acids make hydrogen when they react with some metals.

Acids have hydrogen in them! For example, Hydrocholoric Acid ( HCl )

FACTS ABOUT ALKALIS

Alkalis have a high pH ( over 7 ) and turn pH paper blue or purple.

Alkalis often feel soapy or slimy.

Alkalis can be corrosive and very damaging to skin.

Alkalis neutalise acids to make salts and water.

Alkalis dissolve in water to give an alkaline solution.

Alkalis are usually Metal Oxides, Hydroxides or Carbonates eg. sodium hydroxide (NaOH)

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Crazy Foam’s colour changing bubble bath: Kids go crazy for magically changing bubble bath. Pour, mix and watch the ‘magical’  colour changes from: red to green then blue!

Contents:

Teaching notes for colour changing bubble bath

• 200 ml Colour changing bubble bath
• Teaching notes
• 30 ml Measuring cup
• 3 ml Pipette.

Buying for a special occasion? Then we recommend our safety glasses and Primary Science Kit as additional purchases to make this an amazing science gift!

Make your bath-time magical with our colour changing bubble bath. Watch the mild & gentle bubble bath change from orange to blue in front of your very eyes!

How the bubble bath works

Colour changing bubble bath that can change from orange to green pH balanced formula to gently cleanse and moisturise delicate skin SLES and Paraben free. Fabulous fruity scent in Red to Blue bubble bath.

Teaching notes for colour changing bubble bath

This product is:

• Mild & Gentle
• Hypo-Allergenic
• Dermatologically Tested
• Paraben Free

Check out Science2Life’s teaching notes to find out how to make a bubble solution that bounces and a colour changing bath bomb!

A snippet from our teaching notes

Bromocresol green is a dye used as a pH indicator for many biological experiments.

Bromocresol green colour chart

A pH indicator is a chemical compound added in small amounts to a solution so that the pH (acidity or alkalinity) of the solution can be seen. The pH indicator is a chemical detector for hydronium ions (H3O+) or hydrogen ions (H+). The indicators change the colour of the solution depending on the pH. Some indicators only have 2 colour changes; Litmus (a solution of different dyes made from lichen)  is red in acid or blue in alkaline solutions.

Typical indicators are phenolphthalein, methyl orange, methyl red, bromothymol blue, and thymol blue. They each change colour at different points on the pH scale, and can be used together as a universal indicator.

Bromocresol green is yellow in solutions with pH values less than 3.8; green for pH values between 3.8 and 5.4 and blue for solutions with a pH value above 5.4.

Why does the bath water always turn the bubble bath blue?

The pH of pure water is 7, any solution with a pH less than 7 is considered to be acidic, and with a pH above 7 considered alkaline. However, tap water can have a pH value between 6.5 and 8.5. For all liquids which have a pH value greater that 5.4 the bromocresol green indicator in the soap will always turn a blue colour.

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Teaching notes for colour changing bubble bath

Contents:

• 200 ml Colour changing bubble bath
• Teaching notes
• 30 ml measuring cup
• 3 ml pipette

Make your bath-time magical with our colour changing bubble bath. Watch the mild & gentle bubble bath change from orange to blue in front of your very eyes!

Comes with FREE teaching notes, measuring cup and a pipette to help with your children’s scientific explorations!

How the bubble bath works

Colour changing bubble bath that can change from orange to green pH balanced formula to gently cleanse and moisturise delicate skin SLES and Paraben free. Fabulous fruity scent in Orange to Blue bubble bath.

This product is:
· Mild & Gentle
· Hypo-Allergenic
· Dermatologically Tested
· Paraben Free

Check out Science2Life’s teaching notes to find out how to make a bubble solution that bounces and a colour changing bath bomb!

A snippet from our teaching notes

Bromocresol green is a dye used as a pH indicator for many biological experiments.

A pH indicator is a chemical compound added in small amounts to a solution so that the pH (acidity or alkalinity) of the solution can be seen. The pH indicator is a chemical detector for hydronium ions (H3O+) or hydrogen ions (H+). The indicators change the colour of the solution depending on the pH. Some indicators only have 2 colour changes; Litmus (a solution of different dyes made from lichen)  is red in acid or blue in alkaline solutions.

Typical indicators are phenolphthalein, methyl orange, methyl red, bromothymol blue, and thymol blue. They each change colour at different points on the pH scale, and can be used together as a universal indicator.

Bromocresol green is yellow in solutions with pH values less than 3.8; green for pH values between 3.8 and 5.4

Bromocresol green colour chart

and blue for solutions with a pH value above 5.4.

Why does the bath water always turn the bubble bath blue?

The pH of pure water is 7, any solution with a pH less than 7 is considered to be acidic, and with a pH above 7 considered alkaline. However, tap water can have a pH value between 6.5 and 8.5. For all liquids which have a pH value greater that 5.4 the bromocresol green indicator in the soap will always turn a blue colour.

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