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Erupting Volcano Made Easy Activity

July 3, 2017 · In: Kid's Activities, Lifestyle

Volcano….who isn’t intrigued by them. They are so mysterious and beautiful at the same time. My kids are fascinated by them not only due to the movie Moana- man, starting to sing the song ‘Your Welcome’ now, but also because they blow up. Kids love things that go ‘Kaboom!’, at least my kids do 😉 Why not take this obsession for all things volcano and make it educational?!

So, exactly what are volcanoes? Volcanoes are mountains that have an opening to molten rock located below the earth’s surface. When pressure builds up around this molten rock, the volcano erupts. The pressure around the molten rock is released through the opening in the volcano. Lava is molten rock that has reached the earth’s surface through the volcano’s opening. As we all know, lava is extremely hot. It is melted rock after all! Now let’s get to the hands-on part 🙂

In this activity, we decided to use a volcano we had already constructed and make it ‘erupt’. My kids loved being able to use a volcano they had designed. The basic construction of the volcano is all up to your child. Let them use their own creativity to decide how they want it to look. We decided to use an air drying clay, but you can also use play dough or basic modeling clay. If you want a tutorial on how to construct your very own volcano, check out this post where we did just that!

3 Easy Steps to Constructing a Volcano

This activity can be done in one day with the volcano construction or broken up over 2 different activities. In this one, we will be focusing on the ‘erupting’!

Items Needed:

2tbs Baking Soda
6 drops Dawn
1/4c Vinegar
Food Coloring (for Lava color)
Empty 8oz or 16oz water bottle, depending on size of volcano
Paper plate or dish for collecting ‘lava’

First step is to decide which water bottle size will fit nicely under your constructed volcano. Next, add water to the water bottle, leaving just a few centimeters of air. Add 4-6 drops of food coloring to the water. Then add about 6 drops of Dawn soap to the bottle. This next step can be done with a funnel if you have one. We decided to just go with the ‘pouring it in the best we can’ method. Using a spoon, we added about 2 tablespoons of baking soda to the water bottle.

Before the last step, Eruption Step, we carefully placed the water bottle under our constructed volcano. Then set it all on a paper plate. The kids added a few extra touches to their volcanoes, aka figurines haha! Now for the real fun! Carefully pour 1/4 cup of vinegar into then volcano opening…and watch the eruption take place!

My kids had so much fun with this activity! Below, I have included a link that has more volcano tidbits for those eager to learn more.

More information about Volcanoes

Does your child want more volcano fun? Check out this Lava learning activity!

Fun Lava Learning Activity


By: Clair · In: Kid's Activities, Lifestyle

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  1. Sane Mama says

    July 6, 2017 at 2:20 am

    What a great project! My daughter went through a phase where she was obsessed with volcanoes so I know she would love this.

  2. Kiley D. Smith says

    July 6, 2017 at 1:57 pm

    these would be fun to make with my kids this summer! Thank you!

  3. Nicole says

    July 6, 2017 at 4:23 pm

    You are definitely a fun mom! How cool is this! Going to pin this for later. ??

  4. Jasmine A says

    July 6, 2017 at 5:46 pm

    I love the idea of using a small water bottle! My six year old son loves volcanos so this is great!

  5. Heather says

    July 6, 2017 at 6:26 pm

    Great STEAM project. I will be doing this activity with my kids this summer.

  6. Jenn says

    July 7, 2017 at 2:33 am

    How cool! I’ve always wanted to do this. I’ll try it someday when my son is older ?

  7. Michelle Leslie says

    July 7, 2017 at 10:06 am

    This is so cool. I love how boys and girls can be so different in how they approach these activities. Did your son’s little monster survive the eruption okay 😉

  8. Danielle @ A Sprinkle of Joy says

    July 7, 2017 at 10:47 am

    Such a fun project!! 🙂 One day I’ll do something like this with my girls.

  9. Sharon Chen says

    July 7, 2017 at 12:52 pm

    This looks like a fun activity for kids! They surely enjoyed it 🙂

  10. Candy Rachelle says

    July 8, 2017 at 9:05 am

    This looks like a wonderful project for both the parents and the kiddies. My son and I did this project and had fun messing up a couple of times!

  11. Amy @ Chew Out Loud says

    July 10, 2017 at 2:32 am

    Oh my goodness, so funny — my 8 year old literally was just doing this last week, LOL. I made him do it in the big sink so it didn’t overflow all over the floors 😉 Love how your kiddos are having a blast together – such fun experiments 🙂

  12. Elisha Fernandez says

    July 10, 2017 at 7:59 pm

    I love volcanoes! I’ve always wanted to do one of these projects but usually they are too complex. I’d love to try this “recipe”

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