DIY Lava Lamps

This week for our summer craft, we decided to try making lava lamps. The kids always seem fascinated by them in stores so I thought it might be a fun project to try at home. Plus, last week we had a major fail when we tried making bouncy balls at home.  This time we needed something simple and decided to try  groovy lava lamps.

DIY Lava Lamps

These DIY Lava Lamps were super simple to make and the kids really enjoyed it!

SuppliesLava lamp ingredients
– Empty water bottle (We found our bottles at London Drugs. They were about $2 each and the id stickers came of so it was perfect.)
– Vegetable Oil
– Water
– Food Coloring (any color you like)
– Alka-Seltzer tablets

Instructions
1. Fill your bottle just a little less than 3/4 of the way with oil.

Lava lamp - pour water
2. Then add water, leaving a few a few inches of free space at the top of the bottle.

3. Next, add 10 drops of food colouring in the bottle. Do it one drop at a time and watch how the color slowly sinks to the bottom and spreads. (In one lava lamp we used blue & red food coloring mixed together and in the other we used just red.)

Lava lamps - add food coloring

lava lamp - red food coloring

Lava lamps - food coloring drops

4. Take one Alka-Seltzer tablet and break it into four even pieces. Drop in one of the pieces and watch as it bubbles and sizzles and all the liquid moves around, it’s very cool!

lava lamp - fizzing with Alka Seltzer

Laval Lamps finished

5. Once all the pieces are in, tightly close your water bottle and then enjoy! You can flip the bottle and watch as the Lava Lamp works it’s magic!

lava lamp - shaking it

10 thoughts on “DIY Lava Lamps

  1. That’s so cool!! Now I know what to do with my leftover colours from Easter that still are in the fridge. Thank you for sharing!

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