Pathetic

After a crazy weekend I decided to be a good mother and fulfil the promises I have been making to my children over the past week. One of those promises was to make the plastic volcano from the dinosaur toys into a working volcano. Can you see the excitement and complete confidence in my volcano-making abilities on the their faces?

So I've been to school, I've made the baking soda/vinegar volcano many times and the one time my peeps are really depending on me, I fail, miserably. I just don't know where I went wrong! I chose an appropriate bottlenecked cup to hold the ingredients. I drilled a hole in the top of the volcano. I used Play-Do to direct the lava out of the volcano. I used the appropriate ingredients. Where is the margin for error here?!?

I tried again and again to make it work. I went through all the white vinegar in the house and moved onto cider vinegar which then smelled up the house. What up?Jake has given me about ten friendly reminders throughout the afternoon and evening about my failed volcano to help keep my spirits up. Thanks buddy, I'll remember this when you are a teenager.