Homemade Ice Cream
Making ice cream at home or in the classroom is easy. With just a few simple supplies you can squish up a batch in just about 15 minutes.
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Make a non-toxic lava lamp at home
[dropcap1]T[/dropcap1]his is a really fun do at home activity. With just a few items from your kitchen you can create a bubbling version of a lava lamp. To get started gather up some vegetable oil, water, food coloring, a plastic bottle and some effervescing (the bubbling kind) antacid tablets.
How to make Slime
[dropcap1]H[/dropcap1]Here is a recipe for slime. This polymer goo is similar to flubber and just as much fun. Try making both to see how changing the amounts of ingredients can make a huge change in the end produce. Just be sure you don’t dispose of it down your sink or you will plug your drain […]
The Amazing expanding bar of soap
Who would have thought that soap could be so much fun? Not only does Ivory soap float in water, but if you heat it in a microwave it will expand into a mass of soap about three times larger than the bar. This experiment also generates some strong soapy smells – so be prepared!
How to make a shrunken head
Making a shrunken head for Halloween, or anytime for that matter, is fun and it only takes a apple and a few other items from around the home.
Create a Gum-drop dome
[dropcap1]W[/dropcap1]ith just a few gumdrops and some toothpicks you can build some pretty cool structures that are amazingly strong yet simple in design.
Cookie mining
Cookie mining is a fun activity that might get you thinking about what it take to mine for minerals in the Earth’s crust. Can you extract the minerals without making a mess or destroying the materials around it?
Hoop Gliders
Hoop gliders are pretty cool cause they look like they shouldn’t really be able to fly as well as they do. Two hoops of paper taped to a soda straw actually fly pretty well. This is a pretty simple activity that you have to try just to see how well it really works!
Make a balloon flinker
A balloon flinker is a fun thing to create if you happen to have some birthday party balloons just floating around the house. The idea is to add just enough weight to the balloon to balance out the lifting force of the helium gas in the balloon.
Bubble makers
Here’s a way to make a simple make bubble making device using things around the kitchen.