make your own VOLCANIC eruption
Make your own volcanic eruption??? Â Heck ya, that sounds fun! Â It’s easy too, very little clean up and super inexpensive… all of my favorite things wrapped into one.
Big M found two volcano books at the library and since I have so many fun learning activities stashed away in my Pinterest Boards we were ready to get experimenting.  (And I was prepared… YAHOO!)
Place a little wax in the bottom of a heat resistant glass container. Â (We actually tried this experiment the day before using an old glass pickle jar. Â Hubs decided it wasn’t safe after a couple of minutes on the flame… I’ll go with his judgment on that one.)
We used a tea light candle.
Cover the wax with a layer of sand, then add cold water to the container.
Place the container on an open flame. Â It took only minutes for the wax to heat up and burst to the surface. Â SO NEAT! Â I didn’t get a good picture of the eruption or the finished product. Â (Guess I was a little too wrapped up in this one to remember to take a picture… glad that doesn’t happen often!)
Ours didn’t look nearly as cool as the Storm in A Tea Cup anyway (that’s where I found this cool idea). Â Lesson learned… the activity doesn’t always have to turn out just like you hoped for the kids to have fun and learn something exciting!!!
This post is a part of the Volcano lesson plan.
This looks neat! I can’t wait to try. What kind of wax did you use? candle wax? I have lots of candles.
Great!
How fun! My little one would love this, thanks for sharing something new!
You’re welcome! Thanks for stopping by Miranda!
I was wondering what twist you were going to have on a volcanic eruption. Great find! I love that it more closely resembles what actually happens. 🙂
I thought you might like that. 🙂
This looks fantastic – I expected to see a usual baking soda+vinegar volcano and learned something new instead 🙂
I’m glad I surprised you! Did you catch the baking soda + vinegar volcano we did? Glad I didn’t post that one first. 😉