Experiments for children. How to make a volcano with your own hands
Recently, after reading a children's science book aboutvolcanoes and earthquakes, my son showed interest in volcanoes and began to ask me many questions. And we decided to explore these questions and create our own volcano with our own hands. A home volcano is a very exciting sight for children of any age, they observe and learn about the amazing power of these geological formations! Conducting such an experiment and creating your own homemade volcano is really very simple and for this you will need simple materials that can be found in any home.
We will need:empty plastic bottle (1 liter bottle), newspaper torn into strips, PVA glue, sticky tape, container for water and glue mixture. To make lava, imitating a real volcano, we will need bicarbonate of soda, red and yellow food coloring (or orange) and vinegar.
How to do:Cut out the middle of the bottle, and connect the bottom and top with sticky tape (scotch tape), then give the bottle the shape of a volcano - wrap it in newspaper and secure it with tape. You can make a volcano out of papier-mâché (You need to alternate layers of newspaper and flour with water (or glue), when the desired shape is ready, put it to dry).
Let's color our volcano.
Lava - we used 4 tablespoons of bicarbonate of soda and 1 cup of vinegar mixed with dye. Pour the soda into the bottle.
We pour colored vinegar and observe the miracle of nature.
SOME FACTS ABOUT VOLCANOES:
- Erupt magma is called lava.
- Volcanoes become larger, each time they break through, the lava cools and makes a new layer of rock.
- Volcanoes can break out under the water and form new islands from the cooled lava.
- Volcanoes can be found on the Moon and other planets.
- There are more than 500 active volcanoes on Earth.
If you enjoyed the DIY Volcano experiment, check out this fall experiment for kids.
