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Decorate a towering chocolate sponge with sweets and molten toffee 'lava' to create a dazzling children's treat, from BBC Good Food.

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Junior Bake Off - Recipe: Volcanic Biscuits

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Challenge yourself with a technical bake from Junior Bake Off and have a go at making these volcanic biscuits with ginger beer.

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Watching a homemade volcano erupt is a very exciting experience for young children as they watch and learn about the amazing power of these geological formations.

Making your own homemade volcano is really simple and requires basic material that you can find around the home.

Recently after reading a non-fiction book about volcanoes and earth quakes, it aroused an interest particularly about volcanoes with Miss 4 and 5. There was a number of questions and some misconceptions so we went on to explore these questions and then onto making our own homemade volcano.

What you will need?

You will need an empty plastic bottle (this is 1 litre bottle), newspaper torn up in strips, PVA craft glue, masking tape and a container for the water and glue mixture.

To make the lava to mimic that of a real volcano you will need bicarbonate soda, red and yellow food colouring (or orange) and white vinegar.

To make the basic shape of a volcano I cut the middle of the plastic bottle out and then overlapped the two ends together securing it with masking tape. To give the volcano a more pyramid/mountain shape I then rolled newspaper into a tube shape and wrapped it around the base of the plastic bottle and securing it all with masking tape.

Let's Glue

Time to get messy: applying Paper Mache to our volcano using small strips of newspaper dipped into a gluey water mixture. We also folded a small amount of newspaper into the opening of the bottle but making sure there was enough room to add our bicarbonate soda and vinegar later.

Tip - keep an old towel handy for the kids to wipe their hands on.

While we were waiting for the paint to dry we had a practice run to see how much bicarbonate soda and vinegar would be needed for the homemade volcano. To give you a bit of an idea, we used 4 tablespoons of bicarbonate soda and 1 cup of vinegar mixed with some red and yellow food dye.

Let's Paint

When the Paper Mache was dry, Miss 4 and 5 set to work to paint the volcano. We had watched a few videos on You Tube about volcanos and it was decided that the volcano needed to be black, dark grey and a little bit of brown.

Let's Play

Sifting the bicarbonate soda into the funnel and about to pour in the vinegar.....you have to be super quick to get the funnel out. Miss 5 was standing by ready to grab it after Miss 4 poured in the vinegar.

Our homemade volcano fizzing and frothing as the bicarbonate soda and vinegar react together.

Making a homemade volcano is a fun and simple process that kids will take on a sense of pride, ownership and achievement of what they have accomplished. All this while learning new things and practicing some basic skills with an almighty eruption at the end. We repeated the eruption 3 times!

Some Simple Facts About Volcanoes

A volcano is a mountain that erupts.

Rock under the earth's surface is so hot that it melts. This melted rock is called magma.

Erupting magma is called lava.

Volcanoes become bigger every time they erupt as the lava cools and makes a new layer of rock.

Volcanoes can erupt under water and form new islands from the cooled lava.

Volcanoes can be found on the moon and other planets.

There are more than 500 active volcanoes on Earth.

More Play Ideas

As a result of this activity, my kids were very intrigued about how bicarbonate soda and vinegar react together - Here is an activity to extend this learning through making Homemade Honeycomb. Click on the image to see the full post!

Some Great Books About Volcanoes

Look Inside Volcano by DK The Best Book of Volcanoes by Dr Simon Adams
My Mouth is a Volcanoe by Julia Cook

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volcanoe experiment with bicarbonate soda and vinegar

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Watching a homemade volcano erupt is a very exciting experience for young children as they watch and learn about the amazing power of these geological formations. Making your own homemade volcano is really simple and requires basic material that you can find around the home.

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Need a super simple baking soda and vinegar volcano recipe? This one takes about three minutes to prep (and the kids get to help). It uses six common ingredients, and there is no mess to clean up afterward! If simple and no cleaning is music to your ears, you're in the right place. We've made this five times in the past two weeks, so it's definitely a loved activity here.

Want to see it in action? I have an awesome video of it near the bottom of this post!

I have always loved making volcanoes with my kids, but they can be time-consuming and require lots of prep. Well, "lots" may be stretching it, but in my world, if it's not simple, it doesn't usually happen. The sad truth is that while I've thought about making a volcano tons of times, I've only made it happen a few. I wanted to change that by making it a super easy process. I hope you absolutely love it!

And if you love these types of science experiments, you can see even more baking soda and vinegar experiments that are simple and so fun! They are also an awesome addition to a preschool curriculum.

Baking Soda and Vinegar Volcano

How do you make the easiest volcano recipe in the world? Ingredients

1. Plastic cup (We tried a water bottle, but the plastic cup worked much better)

2. Water

3. 3-4 Tbs of baking soda at least (we usually do 4-6 which makes it extra foamy and will do 2-3 eruptions)

4. 1 tsp of dish soap

5. 1/2 oz to 2 oz of Washable Paint, depending on the intensity of the color desired

6. 1 cup (8 oz) of Vinegar to start with per eruption...then they'll be asking for more 🙂

Location: an area with pea gravel, sand, or dirt
Start off by combining the "base ingredients." Put the water inside of the plastic cup. Fill it about 2/3 full. Add the baking soda, dish soap, and washable paint. By using washable paint, you don't have to worry about any staining on the rocks (or little fingers) that food coloring might cause. I tried liquid watercolor as well, but it doesn't work nearly as well as the washable paint.

While you mix the base ingredients, have the kiddos make a mound out of pea gravel (or you could certainly do this with dirt). Once you have a mound, put the cup on top of it, and turn it into a mountain. How easy is that!

We give it a good stir just before adding the last ingredient. Now it's time for the eruption! Pour in the vinegar until it starts foaming over, pouring it's lava all over the rocks.

The pictures really don't do this justice, but our pea gravel mountain was just under a foot tall (30 cm).

Here's our bubbly red lava taking over the rocks. In the background here, I've been hearing "there she blows!"

It is also super fun to mix up the colors a little bit! We can pour the vinegar in about three times before we need to add more baking soda to our solution.

Baking Soda and Vinegar Volcano Video

Want to see it in action? Here's the video!

Since we can't get enough of this, here are some more snapshots of our other volcano eruptions.

What does it look like afterward? Here's a picture of ours once we took away the plastic cup. You can hardly even tell we did anything, and the rocks must be nice and clean with the baking soda and vinegar. If the washable paint doesn't come off the rocks right away, it will within a few days or the next rain.
If you want to see what this looks like with dirt, check out these fun volcano posts! Or if you have the time to make it a little fancier, here are some more great ideas:
So there you have it - the easiest volcano recipe ever...that you can make on a whim! If you are looking for more science experiment ideas, I highly recommend The Curious Kid's Science Book: 100+ Creative Hands-On Activities for Ages 4-8 .

Easy Backyard Volcano by Mom with a Lesson Plan

Erupting Volcanoes in Preschool by Teach Preschool

Build, Paint, and Erupt Volcano by Fun at Home With Kids

Erupting Volcano Dinosaur Printable from Fun at Home With Kids

Comparing Homemade Volcano Recipes by Still Playing School

How to Build a Volcano by Kids Activities Blog

Ice Volcanoes by Reading Confetti

Messy Play Fun with Shaving Cream from Fun-A-Day!

Erupting an Easy Homemade Volcano by Mom to 2 Posh Lil' Divas

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Easy Baking Soda and Vinegar Volcano Eruption for Kids

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Need a super simple baking soda and vinegar volcano recipe? This one takes about three minutes to prep (and the kids get to help). It uses six common ingredients, and there is no mess to clean up afterward! If simple and no cleaning is music to your ears, you're in the right place.

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The U.S.: 50 States - Map Quiz Game - Seterra

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With 50 states in total, there are a lot of geography facts to learn about the United States. This map quiz game is here to help. See how fast you can pin the location of the lower 48, plus Alaska and Hawaii, in our states game!

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Evolution and inheritance - KS2 Science - BBC Bitesize

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KS2 Science Evolution and inheritance learning resources for adults, children, parents and teachers.

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, a mixture of hot, molten rock and gas, builds up deep beneath the surface of the Earth under enormous pressure. The magma rises, looking for weaknesses through rocks in the Earth's crust.

Volcanoes are usually found along the boundaries of tectonic plates.

Constructive plate boundaries are where tectonic plates are moving apart, and magma here can gradually rise and form new crust, usually without any violent eruptions.

Destructive plate boundaries are where tectonic plate boundaries are colliding or pushing against each other. The intense pressure involved can create new magma which then rises to the surface through volcanic vents in explosive eruptions.

When magma erupts from a volcano it is called . This mixture of lava and gas flows out and down the sides of a volcano, some may cool and erupt as ash.

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A volcano is an opening in the Earth's crust that allows magma, hot ash and gases to escape. Find out more with Bitesize KS2 Geography.