Mentos and Soda Geyser

Could not get a great picture but there were a lot of deer today

Today I took the kids over to Lake Casitas where we use 7 mentos candies and a 2 littler of diet Shasta to create a geyser. I found this little tube that you place on the soda and then you pull a string that releases the mentos into the soda creating a geyser. It was pretty neat and the kids enjoyed it. Owen has lots of experiments he wants to try with it. He wants to know if you place more than 7 mentos in the soda will it shoot higher? How about if you use a smaller amount of soda?  Next time he wants to place paper near the soda to estimate where the soda will land. He also wants to time it to see how long it last. I love this, I love that the kids are learning so much through a fun little activity that I happen to see at Smart and Final this morning. Before we went to the lake we read about what geysers are, what is needed in the environment for a geyser to be created and then we watched some video’s on You Tube about geysers. We are going to do this on Thursday in Owens’s class.

We took Dakota to the lake as well and spent a little bit of time on the playground. As we were driving home we were looking for deer’s in the field like we always do. We saw a group of about 4 and then about a minute later, we found a large group, some were sitting some were standing, we counted 16 deer’s!

Kids hiding in the tunnel at the lake

Emma and Owen at the Lake playground

Beautiful March day at the Lake

Love coming here