A creative apparatus for use in a hands-on laboratory experiment that allows the visualization of the vapor pressure as a function of temperature is described in this paper. Inspired by homemade barometers and using simple materials that are easily accessible for teaching laboratories, a lowcost system for the establishment of the vapor-pressure curve was constructed and applied in deionized water and in car-radiator-additive samples (based on ethane-1,2-diol) at different concentrations. The system constructed proved to be efficient, simple, and quite robust and is applicable in teaching activities for comparing and visualizing vapor-pressure curves of different liquids. It can also be used to estimate the molar enthalpy of water vaporization. The main advantages and drawbacks of the apparatus created, the results obtained for liquid samples, and the evaluation of the ruggedness of this experiment are described throughout the text. The establishment of this system is the result of a project developed by first-year-undergraduate students along with postgraduate students and professors from the Bachelor's Program of Science and Technology, hosted by the Universidade Federal do ABC, as part of the innovative course the Experimental Basis of Natural Sciences, a practical course which seeks to build knowledge through experimentation.