The Volcano Experiment

This is a good experiment for lava. It's toy lava. In a measuring cup we put vinegar (1/3 as much as the bottle will hold), red food coloring (everyone knows lava is red) and dish soap (1 Tbsp). In an empty Vitamin Water bottle we put baking soda (1 Tbsp).

Mom put brown construction paper around the bottle so it looked like a mountain, then put it in a dish.

I poured the vinegar in the bottle and it exploded slowly. There were red bubbles. It was like a lava pond. There are lava ponds in the earth. They go in the bottom of the volcano, then it gets fuller and fuller and closer to eruption.

Now the brown paper is all soggy. If you put it on your head and pour some stuff in, it will explode. It won't kill you.

The volcano says: "I will eruption you now. That was a joke"

Now I'm on YouTube.com watching volcano videos. Some of the lava comes from the middle of the earth, and that's making the volcano.