Lemon Volcanoes
Lemon volcanoes at home can be a fun way to get your kiddo excited about science lessons!
What you’ll need:
- Lemon
- Pan/tray (to place lemon on)
- Cutting knife
- Spoon
- Food coloring
- Baking soda
What you’ll do:
Let’s teach our kids about chemical reactions by making the popular at-home volcano, but with a lemon!
- First, cut a lemon in half. Cut off the ends so it can stably stand up with the open face upwards.
- Then take the spoon and mash up the inside of the lemon – but keep the pulp in the skin –don’t remove it! This is needed for the chemical reaction to occur.
- Then place a couple of food coloring drops into the mashed-up lemon.
- Pour baking soda so it covers the entire top of the lemon, usually 1/4-1/3 cup of baking soda, and stir it around with the mushed pulp, so it all incorporates. Keep mixing periodically and watch the chemical reaction occur! The baking soda acts as a base to help neutralize the citric acid from the lemon causing a foam to occur!
