Here is an easy way.
Making a lava lamp with baking soda.
Add a bit of vegetable oil and wait until a layer is formed.
Today you and your kids can make your own lava lamp from common household ingredients.
Lava lamps have been around for years and are mesmerising to watch.
So let s build the lava lamp.
Baking soda and vinegar or 1 tablet of aspirin eno antacid tablet 1 glass mason jar.
What is our favourite acid and base reactions.
Then add some salt and watch.
A final quick and easy lava lamp experiment.
Homemade lava lamp experiment with salt.
Lava lamp lava lamp by paul swift.
Using the funnel sprinkle 3 4 table spoons of baking soda into the bottle.
Diy lava lamp experiment.
Place 2 tablespoons of baking soda in the bottom of a mason jar.
An acid is a substance that contains a high concentration of positive hydrogen ions.
Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate a chemical compound known as a base.
A base is substance that releases hydroxide ions when combined with water.
If you are still stuck for supplies and need a really simple way of making a lava lamp.
Oil and water do not have the same density and won t mix.
In fact as long as the bubbles keep going my kids will happily sit there and watch it without batting an eye.
The classic way to make a homemade lava lamp is to use alka seltzer.
Food colour fountain pen ink.
Lava lamp baking soda.
The results are temporary but they should last at least as long as your child s attention span.
Using the funnel fill the bottle 3 4 full.
Baking soda and vinegar.
Clear plastic bottle with cap.
Put 2 or 3 heaped tablespoons of baking powder bicarbonate of soda into a tall jar.
Start by filling your tall container with two third of water.
Kids love learning how to make lava lamps because it is completely mesmerizing to watch the liquid bubble up and down.
This does give us one final simple lava lamp method.
Let it settle into a flat layer at the bottom of the bottle.
The science behind a diy lava lamp acid base chemical reactions.
In this experiment vinegar is the acid.
This lava lamp relies on the creation of carbon dioxide bubbles formed from mixing vinegar and baking soda.
Pipette or eye dropper.
Put two tablespoons of baking soda at the bottom of the glass mason jar.