Make Social Media Logos with Water Beads & Soda
Create vibrant social media logos using color-sorted water beads in clear molds, then trigger a dynamic fizzy soda eruption display.
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🧰 Required Tools & Equipment
- ✓ Clear acrylic logo molds or sectioned trays
- ✓ Bead spoon or scoop
- ✓ Geyser trigger tube or paper chute
- ✓ Large waterproof catch basin or tarp
- ✓ Tweezers
📦 Materials & Supplies
- ✓ Assorted colored water beads
- ✓ 2-liter carbonated soda bottles
- ✓ Pack of Mentos mint candies
- ✓ Clean water
⚠️ Safety Checkpoints & Warnings
- • Perform soda eruptions outdoors or over a heavy waterproof catch basin to contain sticky splashback.
- • Keep dehydrated water beads out of reach of young children and pets to prevent ingestion hazards.
- • Wear safety glasses during the Mentos drop to protect eyes from pressurized soda spray.
📋 Step-by-Step Guide (5 Steps)
Hydrate and Sort Water Beads by Logo Colors
Submerge dry water beads in clean water for 4 to 6 hours until fully expanded into spherical gel beads. Separate the beads into bowls matching each logo: red and white for YouTube, cyan, magenta, black, and white for TikTok, royal blue and white for Facebook, and orange, purple, pink, and yellow for Instagram.
- • Evenly sized spherical gel beads sorted into distinct color bowls
- • No dehydrated or partially expanded beads visible in the sorting dishes
- • Using hot water that splits the beads
- • Not allowing enough soak time leading to irregular bead sizes
Position and Secure Logo Molds
Place clear acrylic logo molds or stencil trays flat inside a large waterproof catch basin. Ensure each mold is stable and leveled so the water beads will not roll out during assembly.
- • Trays sitting completely flat inside the basin without wobbling
- • Logo divider lines clearly visible through clean acrylic
- • Placing molds on an uneven surface causing beads to roll and mix
- • Using opaque molds that hide the cross-section of the beads
Fill and Detail Logo Patterns with Beads
Use a bead spoon and tweezers to tightly pack the colored beads into the mold sections. Place white beads into central icons like the YouTube play triangle and Facebook 'f', then fill surrounding fields with red and blue beads respectively. Fill the TikTok and Instagram sections with tight color gradients according to their brand layouts.
- • Distinct, tightly packed logo shapes with sharp color borders
- • No stray beads crossing color division lines
- • Dropping contrasting beads into adjacent color zones
- • Leaving loose gaps between beads causing the logo shape to collapse
Set Up Soda Bottles and Geyser Tubes
Position 2-liter soda bottles directly behind or between the completed bead logo trays inside the basin. Attach a geyser tube loaded with 4 to 5 Mentos candies onto each bottle neck, securing the release pin in place.
- • Soda bottles standing firmly upright behind the beaded logos
- • Loaded geyser tubes locked onto bottle mouths with pull pins engaged
- • Shaking soda bottles while mounting geyser tubes
- • Dropping Mentos prematurely into the soda
Trigger the Geyser Display
Pull the release pins from all geyser tubes simultaneously to drop the Mentos candies into the soda. Step back 6 feet and observe the soda erupt over and around the vibrant water bead logos.
- • Vertical soda geysers shooting upward without knocking over the bead trays
- • Beaded logos remaining intact inside the catch basin as foam washes over them
- • Pulling pins unevenly causing one bottle to erupt while hands are near the next
- • Standing directly over the bottle openings during release
Credit: inspired by an original tutorial by Toys King — watch the original on YouTube.
Don’t have everything?
- No Geyser trigger tube? Rolled paper tube with an index card slider pin
- No Acrylic logo molds? Clean plastic food containers with cardboard dividers sealed in tape