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Experiment 67%
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Session summary
Get messy and make these colourful lava lamps in this exciting experiment.
Safety message
- Always complete a register at the start of the meeting to record who is present.
- Always remember to risk assess and plan for free time, even if it's just the first five minutes of the meeting.
- Activities start when the first person arrives and end when the last person leaves, including leaders and their children.
- Remember to review your risk assessment to ensure you have enough adults, which may be more than the minimum ratio.
- Maintain and keep medical records up to date, check for any allergies or intolerances, this way you can plan to have the right resources.
- Check the space is for hazards, keep the exits clear, and know the location of the nearest first aid kits.
Activities
Make your own lava lamp
40 mins
Make some cheap, colourful lava lamps in this exciting experiment
- Meets
- Requirement 1
- Requirement 2
Make a rainbow disc spinner
20 mins
Make a white light spinner and watch what happens when the colours start to spin.
- Meets
- Requirement 1.a
- Requirement 2
Preparation
Equipment
- Spoons
- Access to water
- Food colouring
- Empty glass jar or plastic bottle with a lid
- Child-safe effervescent tablet
- Cooking oil
- Funnel
- Jug
- Coloured pens or pencils
- String
- Pens or pencils
- Scissors
- Rulers
- Sticky tack
- Wooden skewers
- White card
- Spinner template
Resources
Spin the rainbow - template
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