Experiments to do at home for fun
Fill a bottle with water, add some food coloring & vegetable oil, then drop in an Alka-Seltzer tablet & watch the bubbling action.
Make A Lava Lamp :
Dissolve a lot of salt or sugar in hot water, then let the solution cool & evaporate slowly. As the water evaporates, crystals will start to form.
Grow crystals:
Mix together glue & borax solution to make a stretchy, gooey slime. To make it colorful you can add food coloring.
Make slime:
Put some baking soda in a balloon, then add vinegar to a bottle. Quickly stretch the balloon over the bottle, so the baking soda falls into the vinegar. The reaction will create carbon dioxide gas & inflate the balloon.
Inflate a balloon with vinegar & baking soda:
Wrap a nail with copper wire & connect it to a battery. When you touch the ends of the wire to the battery, the nail will become magnetic.
Make a simple electromagnet:
Rub a balloon on your hair or a wool sweater to build up a static charge, then hold it near small bits of paper or other light objects to see them attracted to the balloon.
Experiment with static electricity:
Mix baking soda & vinegar in a cup, then quickly pour it into a volcano made of playdough or modeling clay. The reaction will create a foam that looks like lava.
Make homemade volcano:
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