Wow, even as a kid you took it to the next level!
When I was a kid, we did it with pill bottles (this was before child safety caps). It would fizz up and blow it off like a champaign cork. For second graders, that equaled wild excitement from the imagined danger of it all.
I feel a bit sorry for kids these days: they don’t seem to have an interest in any of that natural discovery. All they know is video games. But I hesitate to even say that, because now I sound like an old fuddy duddy. 
What you and I remember so vividly… all that is gone, erased, like it never happened.