We are making our own Erupting Volcano, and you can make your own Erupting Volcano too! It’s easy, fun and educational science project to make indoor or outdoor.
It's a project we are working on for a while, and now finally the eruption occurred! We had lots of fun! The boys enjoyed the preparations and the eruption moment, but also loved the foam and puddles that were created after the eruption, while their dinosaurs struggled with the erupting lava (or diving into the mountain crater..).
Start your own Volcano!
Here is how to do it simple:
You will need one empty plastic bottle, newspapers, gouach\paints, baking soda,
dish washing soap, water and vinegar.
Reuse some newspapers and crumple about 30-35 paper balls.
Place the crumpled paper balls and tape them around and on a reused plastic bottle to create a mountain shape.
Move your mountain to a more solid base. Cover it with newspaper strips dipped in water and white glue
(you can also use a water and flour mixture).
Let it dry.
Have fun painting your mountain with gouache!
We are wearing our work clothes :)
Pants and shirts that got gouache stains one time we have painted, and that way we feel free and don't mind if our clothes get more stains.
You can add a terrain to your mountain, using the same method of crumpled paper balls and than covering it with newspaper strips dipped in water and white glue.
Another layer of color:
Arrange the set
When your volcano is dry, you can arrange the set: use dinosaurs or other plastic animals, plastic rocks or trees (that you can wash later).
We add some of our Mars project rocks.
Of curs, the Volcano will erupt with or without the figures you add to your mountain, but it adds an adventures spirit to the experiment.
This is how we arranged the set, photos by the kids:
Now you are ready to start with your eruption experiment:
Mix 2 tablespoons of baking soda + 2 tablespoons of dish washing soap. Add 1 or 2 tablespoons of water and just a bit of gouache paint (red and yellow) and mix.
By using a funnel, pour it to the mountain crater.
Than, when you are ready and only when the funnel is empty, use it to pour 1 cup of vinegar into your volcano.
And.. it’s happening! Your volcano is erupting!
You can do that again and again.. :)
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