How To Build A Small Volcano
April 12, 2004

First, get a cookie tray with sides.

Next, you'll need:

Scraps of paper
Play-doh
Red food coloring
Toilet paper tube
Baking soda
Vinegar
Funnel

Take the toilet paper tube and wad up pieces of scrap paper to build a mound around the tube. With the play-doh pre-rolled out into flat, large pieces, lay the play-doh over the scraps and form a mountain, with the base of the volcano stuck to the cookie sheet. We added miniature play-doh people, a la Pompei.

With a miniature funnel, put baking soda half-way inside the toilet paper tube.
Next, mix a small amount of vinegar and red food coloring together in a small pitcher (like the kind you get at a restaurant supply store for the table, to hold melted butter). Pour this concoction into the tube with the baking soda.

Yea! Here comes the lava!

posted by Sara Hickman at 09:14 pm
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