Volcano!

We are into Science recently.

I printed some worksheets related to Science but C has yet to do them I thought this would be a brilliant way to get C interested in it.

These were the materials we used: an empty mineral water bottle. Several boxes of plasticine and a tray to hold everything together.

Then I helped her to give the structure a shape. C, on the other hand, did the plasticine.

Next, she rolled out the plasticine and placed it on the structure.

Then the volcano was done!

We brought the entire tray down. We went to get the "materials" needed for the eruption of the "lava". Some carbonated drink and a few pieces of Mentos Original should do the trick. :) Actually, we did this experiment over two days because I had gotten the wrong type of Mentos and the eruption didn't really happen, much to C's disappointment.

The eruption happened pretty quickly and unfortunately, I wasn't fast enough to capture the initial stages of the eruption. C was expecting a huge geyser and I had to explain that we didn't use the "correct" amount of carbonated water so this was a mild eruption hence she was clearly disappointed. However, she quickly added that we could do one more in the future. :)

This was what happened on Tuesday, when we first did the experiment.

C ran away because she was expecting a huge explosion.

Our second attempt and all we got was fizz from the reaction.

That's the spirit! Even Thomas Edison, the genius, didn't succeed in his first attempt to invent the light bulb and it was that "never-say-die" attitude that finally saw him through.