Build Your Own Lava Lamp Online

Your kids will have fun making them and they will be getting a science lesson.

Build your own lava lamp online. Watch what happens to the water with your kids. Grab a clean plastic or glass container from your recycle bin. Children should show an adult these instructions and ask for help and not attempt this on their own. Make this lamp only with adult supervision.

Lava lamps demonstrate liquid density which is the phenomenon where less dense liquids float atop more dense liquids. Commercial lava lamps use a proprietary combination of melted waxes. Add tip ask question comment download. It will sink slowly beneath the oil layer creating lots of bubbles.

Then add water until there s around an inch remaining at the top. This activity is interesting because rising gas bubbles carry big drops. Today i m going to show you how to make your very own lava lamp with just a few simple ingredients. Put on some jimi hendrix and get to work.

Add tip ask question comment download. To view written instructions for this project see the make an alka seltzer powered lava lamp page at science buddies. Follow these simple steps to make your very own lava lamp. When the bubbles have stopped dribble a couple drops of food coloring into the bottle.

Make your own lava lamp. Now your kids can make their own lava lamps with common household items and a staple from your bathroom cabinet. Fill the bottle two thirds full of oil. The alcohol and oil used in this lamp are flammable and must be treated with care when heating them to get the lava moving.