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make your own VOLCANIC eruption

By Jillian | April 19, 2012
Filed under: Kid Activities Tagged: science activities

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Make your own volcanic eruption???  Heck ya, that sounds fun!  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.  (We actually tried this experiment the day before using an old glass pickle jar.  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.  It took only minutes for the wax to heat up and burst to the surface.  SO NEAT!  I didn’t get a good picture of the eruption or the finished product.  (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).  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.

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  1. Natalie says

    April 19, 2012 at 8:11 am

    This looks fantastic – I expected to see a usual baking soda+vinegar volcano and learned something new instead 🙂

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    • Jillian says

      April 23, 2012 at 6:05 am

      I’m glad I surprised you! Did you catch the baking soda + vinegar volcano we did? Glad I didn’t post that one first. 😉

      Reply
  2. Trisha @ Inspiration Laboratories says

    April 19, 2012 at 11:07 am

    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. 🙂

    Reply
    • Jillian says

      April 23, 2012 at 6:03 am

      I thought you might like that. 🙂

      Reply
  3. Miranda says

    April 19, 2012 at 9:19 pm

    How fun! My little one would love this, thanks for sharing something new!

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    • Jillian says

      April 23, 2012 at 6:01 am

      You’re welcome! Thanks for stopping by Miranda!

      Reply
  4. Nicoletta says

    January 1, 2013 at 1:07 pm

    Great!

    Reply
  5. Denise says

    August 25, 2013 at 11:07 am

    This looks neat! I can’t wait to try. What kind of wax did you use? candle wax? I have lots of candles.

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