Hunter has wanted to build a volcano for as long as I can remember. We looked up some ideas on the internet and decided to go with building a salt dough volcano and filling it with a baking soda/vinegar mixture.
The boys built one volcano and the girls built another.
They even decided to paint them. We left them to dry while we took lunch to Mike at the store and ate with him.
We we got home we collected our supplies and went out to the driveway to test our creations. First we filled the bottles with some warm water, food coloring, a few drops of dishwashing detergent, and baking soda. Then the kids poured in the vinegar and watched the eruptions. It was fun to see their excitement when the mixture oozed down the volcanoes.
After we cleaned up the mess we grabbed the coke bottles and mentos we had picked up earlier. We wanted to see if this really worked. You are supposed to drop 7 mentos in at once, but the kids could only get in a few before the coke started spraying up. We even let he neighbor boys in on the fun. Now we just need to figure out how to get all of them in at once. We got a pretty good geyser, but I bet it would be better with more mentos.
While we were cleaning that up one of the neighbor boys came running out of their house with a carton of dyed easter eggs. They started tossing them around, so we organized an egg toss.
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| Laina liked peeling the shells off. |
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| Chase and Michela playing catch. |
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| Hunter and his friend Ridge. |
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| Aria and her friend Abrie. |
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| Laina playing soccer with her egg. |
The street was a disaster afterwards, but the kids had so much fun. We did make them clean up after, but luckily rain is in the forecast for later in the week. Maybe we'll have to make this an annual after Easter tradition.
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