Mt. Pele

Shianne had an assignment to create a volcano for this last week of school. The whole class was going to "explode" the volcanoes at the same time. The only direction we were given was that the volcano needed to fit around a 2 liter bottle.

After some brainstorming and on-line searching, she decided to use a tomato cage as the form and use spray foam insulation to create the body. After the form was created and dry, she spray painted the volcano with brown and black and added orange peel for "snow."



Shianne even created a background for her volcano to fit into. She realized when she got it to school that it was the largest one in the class!



Here is the completed volcano. She named it Mt. Pele after the Hawaiian goddess of fire.



The class went outside to let the volcanoes explode. Shianne chose to use strawberry soda and Mentos to make the volcano have a red eruption. It worked perfectly!

Today was Shiannes last day of school. Nora Beth had her last day on Tuesday. Shianne has plans for several camps this summer and get togethers with her friends. Nora Beth is not quite ready for camps this summer, but I am sure she will be spending most of her time on the swing.