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Experiments

Make a Naked Egg

Learn how to remove the shell from an egg without even using your hands!

Filling without spilling

How many drops of water can you fit on a penny without it spilling over?

Sock it to me

Get your socks wet in this experiment and learn how sweat cools the body down!

Terrific Scientific – Do It Yourself

Have you ever made a mini hovercraft or a tornado in a bottle? Well now you can with this great selection of experiments!

Barometer in a bottle

Here you can make a barometer and predict the weather!

Bend Water With Static Electricity

See how you can bend the water coming out of a tap using only a plastic comb!

Add Colour To Flowers Using Science

Have fun changing the colour of flowers and learn a little something about plants in the process!

Black Magic

Watch the black ink from a pen separate into many different colours!

Go with the flow

See how gravity affects the blood flow around your body.

Xploration Station – Make a Balloon Rocket

Watch Steve Spangler as he shows you how to make a balloon into a rocket!

Xploration Station – Soda Can Swing

In this video Steve teaches you how to make a soda can pendulum and how you can play a fun trick on your friends with it!

Roto-Copter

Learn how to make a little paper helicopter, do you know why the paper toy spins around when it falls?

Kids Invent Stuff

Have you got a really cool idea for an invention? Submit your ideas to The Kids Invent Stuff and you could see your design actually built!

How to make an anti-gravity hourglass

In this video Ross shows you how to make an anti-gravity liquid hourglass that fills from the bottom to the top!

Remote Control Roller

See how you can make a soda can move without even touching it!

Scientific American

Make a sundial, make a harmonica, you can even make a rainbow with this collection of fun activities!

Baking soda experiments

Have fun with baking soda experiments and learn a little something about chemical reactions in the process!

Science@Home

Fun, hands on activities exploring real life science.

Xploration Station – Make a Lava Lamp

Learn how to make your own lava lamp using only water, oil and heartburn tablets!

Temperature Time Warp

What does it mean when we describe an animal as cold-blooded?

Falling for science

What do you think falls faster, a baseball or a golf ball?

Bill Nye’s home demos

Lots of experiments to carry out at home

Steve Spangler Science

Impress your friends with these fun tricks and illusions and learn the science behind them!

Science Fun at Home

A collection of fun, practical science activities for children.

Salt Volcano

Make your own lava lamp and learn how they work!

Xploration Station – Mummify an apple

Create faces in your apple and then preserve it just like the Egyptians used to!

Experiments for Kids

From making snot to creating a tornado in a bottle, this website is packed full of fun and weird science experiments.

Xploration Station – The Tablecloth Trick

Have you always wanted to know how to do the table cloth trick? Well in this video Steve tells you just how!