Friday, 13 February 2009

Volcanoes and toilet rolls!

The other day I announced that I'd like to read about volcanoes, so I got my encyclopedia and looked up volcanoes. Äiti then found me a few clips of erupting volcanoes on youtube so I watched those. We then found a great site that allowed you to design your own volcano, you could alter the amount of force and gas and then watch it erupt.

The yesterday we made a volcano! We used a sort of papier maché mix with lots and lots of glue. After it was dry we painted it. When daddy came home we made it erupt. We used bi-carbonate of soda, stinky vinegar and red food dye. This is what the volcano looked like before it erupted and then afterwards...


It was so much fun making it erupt that we used up all the mixture in another baking tray....



Guess what I have been collecting and stashing away? Toilet roll tubes! Yep, I have nearly 30 of them now! Why- no idea! I'm not sure what to do with them so if you have any suggestions, please let me know!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You could make a giant snake from your toilet rolls, or perhaps an indoor sandcastle world if you coat them in glue and roll them in sand. Or you could ask for a pet hamster for your birthday and make a fantastic tunnel world! Love Emily xx