Preschool: V is for Vase and Volcano

For the letter V, I had a lot planned. First we did a little mini booklet about things that start with the letter V.
Then we turned the V into a vase to hold violets.

And I saved the best for last by making a homemade volcano.

I had the ingredients to make the reaction in little Dixie cups. Each kids had a turn pouring things in. We made the volcano erupt at least 3 times.

V is for Volcanoes

V was a very hard letter to find an activity for. I was so excited when the light bulb went on and thought about volcanoes.

We first colored our Itsy Bitsy V Book with markers.

We looked at the pictures of "DK Readers: Eruption! The Story of Volcanoes" by Anita Ganeri first to help her understand what a volcano is. Earlier I went to http://www.sciencebob.com/experiments/volcano.html to find directions on how to make a volcano. Since the directions dealt with a smaller container we didn't have the huge overflow of messy stuff like I expected but Hailey enjoyed it.

I had her help me scoop out baking soda and pour in the dish soap. Then we put the red food dye in.

To make it go, we put in vinegar.

Hailey wanted to do it again so we did it in a smaller paper cup.
This was a lot of fun and different from our usual craft. Hailey enjoyed pouring the ingredients in and watching it go. I know she doesn't understand what a volcano is but that will come in time.