Build Your Own Lava Lamps

Lava lamps are both mesmerising and beautiful to look at and in this daily dose we re going to make our own.

Build your own lava lamps.

A few minutes is usually a good time to leave the inked felt in the alcohol. Make your own lava lamp. It will sink slowly beneath the oil layer creating lots of bubbles. Watch what happens to the water with your kids.

Density is the measurement of how compact a substance is how much of it fits in a certain amount of space. First fill the empty water bottle about 2 3 full with vegetable oil. I just made two different lava lamps using one color for each bottle. You can also add some glitter for some extra bling.

I ll show you two different ways to make your la. Make this lamp only with adult supervision. Watch your lava lamp erupt into activity. It s a lot of fun if you have a group of children and each child can have their own supplies.

How to make the lava lamp. Add about 8 to 10 drops of food coloring. Leaving it in longer will give a darker color but will also increase the tendency to bleed into the brine. Fill the bottle two thirds full of oil.

Fill the rest with water leaving a little of space at the top. Children should show an adult these instructions and ask for help and not attempt this on their own. What you will need to make your lava lamp science experiment is in this picture. This is a safe and fun science experiment you can do at home or in a classroom.

The food coloring droplets will fall through the oil and rest on top of the water. Remember that the colors will blend together so be careful of your mix. A lava lamp works because of two different scientific principles density and polarity. The oil floats on the surface because the water is heavier has a higher density than oil.

Make your own lava lamp instructions. Commercial lava lamps use a proprietary combination of melted waxes. Make an alka seltzer powered lava lamp from science buddies make your own lava lamp from science buddies create underwater fireworks with chemistry from scientific american. Lava lamp science project.

The alcohol and oil used in this lamp are flammable and must be treated with care when heating them to get the lava moving. When the bubbles have stopped dribble a couple drops of food coloring into the bottle. Then add water until there s around an inch remaining at the top. As the reaction slows down simply add more alka seltzer.

Oil and water just do not mix.