What to do with dino playdough that has been played with to death and should really be relocated to the bin soon?
Make volcanoes, of course!
Which is what we did.
Noah really really wanted to make a volcano during our dinosaur theme. But I wasn't really feeling like making one out of paper mache like we did when I was at school.
So instead, we made our volcanoes out of playdough, surrouding and empty baby food jar. We made one for each of them, because we had lots of playdough {and lots of jars from Chloe's birthday last year!}
And of course our volcanoes also needed some dinosaurs wandering around.
After that, I put a few teaspoons of bicarb soda into the baby food jar.
And coloured some vinegar with red food colouring.
And then we poured, and watched in amazement as our volcanoes 'erupted'.
Love his little smile here.
So much fun!
Bit messy - but use a tray to catch all your water and maybe make sure your kids aren't wearing white like mine were and it's no problem to clean up - the red colouring washed off my plastic trays very easily.
Would your kids love their very own volcanoes?
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What awesome messy fun, my kids will love this :)
ReplyDeleteI see you're doing a dinosaur theme.... have you been to the museum of natural history in Guildford? They have a dinosaur (possibly a stegosaurus or triceratops but I'm no dino-expert)out the front.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! My little one will love to do this!
ReplyDeleteMy kids will love this. We have lots of old play dough lying around.
ReplyDeleteThanks Bianca! Another fantastic idea that I can't wait to try with my boys :)
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