Volcano experiment

Impress your kids and create your very own homemade eruptions with this volcano experiment. Watch your kids be amazed with this science experiment which is also a great learning game for curious, knowledge seeking kids.

What you need:

• flour
• salt
• cooking oil
• water
• large bowl
• plastic bottle
• baking pan
• red food colouring
• liquid detergent
• baking soda
• vinegar
• water

Number of players:
1+

Activity:

Mix 6 cups of flour, 2 cups of salt, 4 tablespoons of cooking oil and 2 cups of water in a large bowl.

Mix the ingredients together with your hands until the mixture is firm.

Stand the bottle in the centre of the pan.

Mould the salt dough around the bottle in a cone shape (like a volcano) but leave the bottle top uncovered.

Fill the bottle almost to the top with warm water.

Add a few drops of food colouring.

Squeeze 6 drops of detergent into the bottle.

Add 2 tablespoons of baking soda.

Slowly pour vinegar into the bottle.

Your volcano will fizz and spurt red lava!

Why?

Mixing baking soda and vinegar makes a chemical reaction.