Earth Science Activities – Volcanoes (Tissue Paper Volcano Craft)

I am SO excited to start sharing some of our hands-on Earth Science activities again! We did three or four different volcano activities and several fun Earthquake activities that we’ll share with you over the next week or two. And, of course, the long-awaited Earth science packet is just about ready to share as well.

This first volcano craft is an idea I first saw over at Our Worldwide Classroom. We did this over the course of several weeks because of the Christmas holidays. It probably doesn’t take *that* long, but it will take a number of days to let things dry between each step.

Have the kids draw a rough outline of a volcano on a thick paper (like watercolor paper).  Create a glue-water mixture. Wad up tissues, get the tissue completely wet and place it on the paper.  Cover the entire volcano with tissues.

After the tissue has thoroughly dried out (this may take 3 or 4 days), you are ready to paint the sky area blue and the volcano brown. Set it aside for a day or so to dry.

Now the fun part begins. Bring out red, orange, yellow and grey paint and let the explosions begin!

The kids were pretty proud of their final projects!

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What else did we do for this portion of our Earth Science unit?

We filled out these pages from the Earth Science Packet I made for the kids:

If your kids keep science notebooks or are creating a volcano lapbook or Earth Science lapbook, they might enjoy creating this “Exploding Volcano Flapbook” that I found at scholastic.  Cute, isn’t it?!

Be sure to check out our Gelatin Volcano Activity!!

Other hands-on Earth Science activity ideas:

 

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Learn how to make a earthquake shake table, more than a dozen hands-on activities on the layers of the earth, volcanoes, earthquakes, plate movement and more!

Topics include: Solar System, Layers of the Earth, Earth’s Axis and the Seasons, Latitude and Longitude, Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, 4 Types of Mountains

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~Liesl and the Kids

You Might Be Interested in These Related Posts:

• Earth Science: Plate Movement Hands-On Activities
• Earth’s Geologic Timeline – Earth’s history separated by eons in a way the kids could really understand
• Earth Science – Layers of the Earth Activity
• Learning about Latitude and Longitude, Using a Compass
• Earth Science: Plate Movement Hands-On Activities
• Earth Science Packet: Layers of the Atmosphere
• Learning about the Solar System – Including the hands-on kit the kids loved assembling and painting.
• Earth Science: Timeline of Earth Activity – A Montessori activity that is meant to impress kids with the enormity of time on Earth.
• Tissue Paper Volcano – Create a 3-D volcano image. The kids LOVED this craft
• Hands-On Volcano Activities: Gelatin Volcan0 & Paper Mache Volcano – We learned SO much from the gelatin volcano activity. I highly recommend doing this for understanding how lava flows as it does.
• How to Make a Shake Table: Earth Science Earthquake Activity – This post includes a quick video of how we made our shake table.

•  Earth Science: Layers of the Atmosphere Worksheets

• Earth Science Activities: Earthquakes, Plate Movement and Mountain Making
• 75 Page Earth Science Packet – Pangaea, Plate Tectonics, Plate Movement Activities, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, hands-on activity ideas and more

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