An illustrative, and entirely dry, lateral spread model can be made using glass microbeads beneath a cohesive sandpack, which I make by combining sand and flour. tilted setup and a daylighted microbeads layer (the model starts with a “bluff” below the houses) to create a strongly directional spread. The obvious drawbacks to these models are the lack of true pore water-induced liquefaction and the exaggerated shaking and sloshing, but these models are easy to set up, easy to break down, and make the connection between shaking, distinct material behaviors, and earthquake/slide-related landforms easy to appreciate.