Vinegar Volcano
Volcanoes are amazing. A combination of unrelenting fury and an essential natural process. Make your own!
🎉 Opening Ceremony 🎉
"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home."
- Gary Snyder
What would it look like to treat nature as home?
︖ Probing Question ⸮
What’s the most important future activity in your world right now? What’s your confidence level that it will go well (1..10)?
🧠 Trivia Question 🧠
As of 2021, how many centenarians (people over the age of 100) were living?
Answer
📙 Word of the Week 📙
Mix it up this week. Give the family 1 minute to name as many words as they can that are related to volcanoes.
🎙️ Main Event 🎙️
Watch a quick video on volcanoes
Materials Needed:
Plastic bottle
Playdough
Baking soda
Vinegar
Red food coloring
Dish soap
Steps:
Mold the playdough around the bottle to create the shape of a volcano. Make it cool and build it up to resemble the slopes and crater of a volcano. Let your kids go wild and put some minifigs or GI Joes in the path of the volcano to see what happens. Leave the top open so you can add the eruption mixture later.
In a separate container, mix 1 cup of vinegar with a few drops of red food coloring and a squirt of dish soap.
In the plastic bottle (the "volcano"), add about 1-2 tablespoons of baking soda.
When you're ready for the eruption, pour the vinegar mixture into the bottle containing the baking soda. Quickly step back and watch your homemade volcano erupt!
Plan to repeat this one several times! Adjust the quantities of supplies, encourage kids to try whatever ideas they come up with to make it more fun.
🎶 Closing Ceremony 🎶
🪞 Reflections 🪞
https://youtube.com/shorts/iXS5Q3-gHKI?si=toA8SWzuXL1gvb20
Regrets:
Not doing it bigger
Not doing it on the driveway - that grass took months to grow back
Not using food coloring
🧐 Variations / FAQ 🧐
Won’t this make a mess?
It's a volcano. Yes it makes a mess. Do it outside. Don’t do it on the grass, it will probably kill your grass.
What if I don’t have any playdough?
Use rocks. Anything to make your volcano look cool!
How does Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It go with volcanoes?
Both are fun
Want to go bigger?
Check this out!