EXPERIMENTS TIME for my unschooling boy!:)
Do you want to know how to create a magical lava lamp easy and fast? Come here now!
Guys, I'm sure you'll like this experiment, and your kids will like it even more! My boy was starring at it for about half an hour or more and asked more and more...it's really meditative and magical handmade thing.
And we jeed so simple procuts for it:
- baking soda
- any oil
- vinegar
- any dye or paint (or bright juice)
- a smartphone with a flashlight
Do you know what is Lava lamp? It was very popular in the past, now we can hardly see it anywhere, though it was really magical process inside of it. The technology of the process was different, but the visual effect will be the same in our fast homemade "lamp"
So first of all we need to take some spoons of baking soda (the more you take, the longer reaction you'll get).
Then we add there any oil . About one glass.
To make the picture bright and nice we take some paint or just some juice. I had veggie juice, and it worked fine.
Then we add some vinegar into out mix, and...the process begins!
We must put a glass with this mix on a flashlight to see this effect better.
Soda creates reaction with vinegar, and that's the main basis of this magical process.
We were in love with it at once!
Then we can add some more soda, and the reaction will start agan! We were playing with our magical glass all day long adding more and more soda and meditating staring at the result😍
I like such simple and fast experiments that can show kids some basical rules and laws of natural processes.