Volcano Project

Since Abigail is home 5 days per week and (like her Mama) likes to have lots of Stuff To Do, I started the summer prepared with several long-term projects for her, as well as many quick afternoon surprises or gifts.  One of the biggest projects was to build a volcano and make it erupt.  Since the eruption is just a chemical reaction of sodium bicarbonate and acetic acid with some food coloring thrown in and has nothing to do with why lava actually spews forth from a volcano, I almost decided against a volcano project.  But, then I reminded myself that she *is* only four.  And, she also understood when I explained the differences in the eruption she simulated and the way it really happens.  She also enjoyed seeing pics of her Baba and me on our honeymoon at Mt. Rainier, knowing that is a volcano too.  

Abigail stringing a frame for her
volcano around a center tube for the
chemical reaction

Abigail adding the plaster strips over her frame.

Time to paint the dried volcano.
Joseph wanted to help by painting something too.

(Joesph was very UNhelpful, however, even
though he was very cute.)

The final project.

Eleven years ago at Mt. Rainier.