The Ultimate Volcano Science Kit - Make It Erupt! Reviews

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My grandson is a very good student and he loves activities that help him to learn and have fun. When he heard we had this volcano kit he just had to work on it. This is a wonderful kit for several reasons. There is an activity book and an adventure guide that provides fun activities and some scientific background on what volcanoes are and how they work. There is a great hands-on part of the kit where your children get to paint and create their own volcano design. And finally the grand finally where the volcano erupts and they see their lessons and creative design in action. The results can be seen in our attached video.

My grandson learned a lot about volcanoes, where they are located like the Ring of Fire, the location of the largest volcano in our solar system, how seismic monitors work and the parts of a volcano. He had a good time and learned a lot.

It was a several hour project of studying, painting and finally taking the volcano outside to make it erupt. Though the chemicals are safe I recommend adult supervision when adding and mixing the chemicals and creating the eruption. We both had fun on this project and so did my wife. I recommend this as a good learning tool and a family activity.

Volcano kit included items:

* Ceramic volcano

* Geode

* Pumice

* Obsidian arrow head

* Paints

* Brush

* Red food coloring for lava dye

* Chemicals to create the lava eruption

* Color activity book

* Color adventure guide

I received a sample product for evaluation and I promised to provide a fair and honest review.

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I had three children working on this Volcano Kit. It comes with one small paint brush and a small set of paint colors, so I brought out a few more paintbrushes of a similar size. The children wished for bigger paintbrushes and more paint. It turns out, the paint supplied was enough to cover the volcano, and the colors were in a scheme that would work no matter how the children applied it. It looked pretty good.

The kit comes with citric acid, sodium bicarbonate, and some red coloring. Mix it together and add some water to see it work. There wasn't a huge eruption, so we decided to try one of the alternative methods suggested by Dr. Cool: baking soda, vinegar and detergent.

My son gives this kit four stars, because the volcano did not give the eruption he expected, but it was fun overall.

This product was provided for review by Discover with Dr. Cool.

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This is not our first volcano science kit, but it was certainly the best one we've come across. What made the experience better for us was the ceramic volcano. The last kit we bought was just a bag of paper mache and our volcano ended up being an ugly mess. I also loved the real specimens in this kit. That was a great touch, and added a lot of educational value. The educational booklet included was also superb. Overall, very impressed.

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This is definitely a durable "volcano" that can be used time and time again, provided care is used when conducting an experiment. If you didn't know, "a volcano is a type of mountain formed when the earth's surface opens an molten rock from deep within the earth's core comes out." Of course before you know the hows and whys of a volcanic eruption, you do have to know about the structure of the earth.

Dr. Cool has written an Adventure Guide that tells you a lot about volcanoes. The guide has some pretty amazing diagrams and full color photographs that will practically blow your mind. Just kidding, but you will learn about things like plate tectonics, the "Ring of Fire," the parts of a volcano, the three different types, how volcanoes are classified, the largest ones on earth, how volcanic eruptions are predicted, "volcanic winter," the benefits of volcanoes, geothermal energy, and you'll learn about the rocks in your kit.

There are also some "Cool Science Facts" scattered throughout the book. For example, did you know that "pumice is so light that it floats on water?" It does! Along with your Adventure Guide there's an Activity Booklet with some "A-Maze-Ing" puzzles for you to work out.

WHAT'S IN THE BOX:

* A geode

* An obsidian arrowhead

* Pumice

* A ceramic volcano (5 3/4" x 4 3/4" at the base, tapers to 2" at the top, 6 3/4" tall)

* Lava coloring (food coloring)

* Eruption powder

* Paint brush

* Paints (black, brown, orange, yellow, red)

* Adventure Guide

* An Activity Booklet with a Test Your Knowledge section and nine puzzles (word search, dot-to-dot, jumble, crossword, maze, matching, cryptogram, spot the difference, and hidden image).

This is an excellent volcano science kit that children will love experimenting with. Of course if you have additional citric acid and sodium bicarbonate you will be able to run this "experiment" time and time again. If the completed volcano is unfired it will obviously not look like the picture, but keep that in mind when you order. Most towns and some schools do have a kiln available and would probably be willing to a volcano in it (inquire first).

The lava "explosion" is essentially an Endothermic Chemical Reaction, a safe one, but I'd still recommend adult supervision. This would be a fun, educational experiment that can be conducted at home or in a homeschool or classroom setting.

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The Ultimate Volcano Science Kit is full of learning and fun. It has all the things you need for a perfect science fair project. My son loves that it comes with 3 Real volcano rocks and activity book. I love how it has a the things you need and when my son came home he was so excited he told me all about how his friends were cheering him on and when he came home he still had more baking soda so he could show the entire family.