We started on Monday with the construction of the body.
These are the materials we used.
Midway
(we used A LOT of blue tape!)
We found lots of (quieter) uses for the tape, too.
I won't lie, this "technique" did help my headache.
We started the paper mache on Tuesday. I made it by boiling flour, salt and water. Using strips of ripped up packing paper and newpaper we covered our volcano form.
To my surprise the kids really didn't like putting their hands in the paste. So we opted for only one layer. We gave it 24 hours to dry.
On Thursday we painted it. I came back throughout the next 24 hours and gave it multiple coats adding the red hot lava and Friday.
Saturday morning was our EXPLODING party. We invited Marti, Braxton and Brooke to join us. We started by having Austin tell us 5 facts about volcanoes. Then we played 2 games.
Lava Jump Contest by Austin (see how high you can jump as if you were lava coming out of a volcano. Emma has some impressive height here.)
Lava Leap by mom (leap over the lava [towels] so you don't get burned.)
Then it was finally time for the long anticipated event, eruption of the volcano! Kurt came home to enjoy the fun. Naturally we had to get out the dinosaurs and place them around the volcano.
The kids were EXPLODING with excitement! Every time it erupted they would yell and squeal with delight. They LOVED it! We went through a new bottle of vinegar and baking soda.
We had exploding brownies (frosted and sprinkled with POP ROCKS) to finish.
What a perfect spring break project.
4 comments:
fun. have you seen meet the robinson's? i ❤ the part in the movie where the volcano explodes. xxoo
Awesome idea! It looked like so much fun, thanks for sharing.
HAHA! Thanks for the invite. We loved it!
You had me until the pop rocks on the brownies.
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