Lava Lamp
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What you need:

• 1/2 cup of any clear cooking oil
• Empty, rinsed out soda bottle with cap
• Powered tempra paints - any color you choose
• Funnel
• Water
• Glitter/ sparkles/ shiny confetti

What you do:

1. Pour the cooking oil into the soda bottle. Add 1 teaspoon of the tempra paint. Add glitter, sparkles, confetti.
2. Add water using funnel or measuring cup with a spout until bottle is filled. Tightly put cap on.
3. Now you have your own "lava lamp". Turn the bottle upside down and see how the colors move and change!

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Oil and water do not mix.
Quantities do not matter too much. The paint (or food color) mixes only with the water to color the water - it is the best way to see the difference between oil and water.

In place of paint or food color, try using a colorful water such as red (or purple) cabbage quartered and boiled - it will be a blue/purple color. Also, cooked carrots turn the water a little orange. You may think of something else already cooked at your school! And that way you are recycling the water and only need to pay for the oil.

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