Create your Own Ocean Zones in a Jar!
Here’s what you’ll need: A clear jar, food coloring, corn syrup, oil, dish soap, water, rubbing alcohol and funnels.
You’ll pour 3/4 cup of each liquid into your glass jar for each ocean layer (or less for a smaller jar).
Going from the bottom to the top:
Trench Zone (Hadalpelagic Zone): Corn Syrup (tinted black)
Abyss (Abyssopelagic Zone): Dish soap (tinted purple)
Midnight Zone (Bathypelagic Zone): Water (tinted dark green)
Twilight Zone (Mesopelagic Zone): Oil (tinted dark blue)
Sunlight Zone (Epipelagic Zone): Rubbing Alcohol (tinted light blue)
1. Add some black food coloring to 3/4 cup of corn syrup
and pour into the bottom of your glass jar.
2. Mix blue food coloring into 3/4 cup of dish soap.
Our dish soap was already blue, but I added a little more
blue food coloring to make it darker (in hindsight I would
have added less coloring as it was darker than I wanted).
Add it to the jar using a funnel.
3. Put blue food coloring in 3/4 cup of water and use a
funnel to slowly and carefully layer it on top of the dish
soap.
4. Next, you’ll add your oil.
5. Finally, you will add 3/4 cup of rubbing alcohol. You’ll
want to use a dropper to slowly add it to the top of the
oil, making sure not to break the barrier between the oil
and water.