Science is fun at the Children's Website! Here you'll find instructions for easy experiments to do at home and at school.
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Green Slime
Slippery slimy goo for you!
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Bake a chemistry cake
What happens to your cake when you leave out key ingredients – oil, egg or baking powder?
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Is it a solid or a liquid?
Explore the amazing properties of corn flour by simply adding water and make your own corn flour slime!
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Shake it!
What happens when you shake a jar of cream? Yes, you get a tired arm! But what else?
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Amazing spinning egg!
Spin an egg and watch as you make it stand on its end!
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Explosive fun!
Create some explosive fun with baking soda and vinegar!
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Solar system mobile
Create all the planets of our solar system in a mini mobile.
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Spaced out colour
Why does the sky appear blue from the earth? And how do different lightwaves create different colours?
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Pinhole sun viewer
Discover the strange science of seeing.
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Marshmallow space face
Feel the power of compressed air.
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Jet balloon rockets
Discover lift, thrust and drag.
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Solar system chalk trail
Understand distances between the planets in our solar system.
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Balloon Universe
Watch the universe expand before your eyes!
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