lava lamps for kids

by: S. L. Smith

You will need 3 empty water bottles ( I don't normally buy this kind of water, but they make pretty lava lamps with the lids on), food coloring, vegetable oil, and alka seltzer.

Fill each bottle a little more than half with oil:

Then fill the rest of the way with water.  Leave about an inch at the top:

Now add 10 drops of food coloring:

Break your Alka Seltzer into 4 pieces:

and drop them in one piece at a time.  Wait until the first piece stops bubbling before you drop in the next.  If too many go in, you solution gets all cloudy.  Don't worry, he's not hurt.  The band-aid is merely decorative...as is the tattoo.  Match those up with the black socks pulled to the knees he likes to wear, and I have got quite a little ladies man!

and watch the magic happen...